Tenniel Chu

Having grown Mission Hills into a global sports and leisure powerhouse, Tenniel Chu tells us about how golfing changes people, why he doesn’t believe in “golf widows”—and the reasons being present is crucial to the game of life

By Tara Sobti

“I just got back from Italy,” Tenniel Chu said at his interview with Tatler back in July. “I was at a friend’s 20th wedding anniversary celebration. You might know him—Donnie Yen?” As the vice-chairman of the Mission Hills Group, which has golf and leisure resorts in Shenzhen, Dongguan and Hainan, Chu’s celebrity connections include A-listers like F1 driver Lewis Hamilton, basketball player Stephen Curry and golfer Rory Mcllroy, who flock to his courses like golf balls to a perfectly manicured fairway. The course at Mission Hills’s original location, in Shenzhen, opened in 1994, and in 2006 the club was recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest golf facility in the world, featuring a dozen 18-hole courses. Before joining the company in 2001, Chu studied professional golf…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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