PAUL CASEY TO DESIGN
FIRST GOLF COURSE AT
SHIMEI BAY IN CHINA

Paul Casey will design his first golf course at the Shimei Bay Resort on Hainan Island in China. Casey and his design team from IMG recently attended a formal signing ceremony, conducted a site review and attended planning meetings in Hainan. Design work is already under way and construction will start in approximately mid-2011. During his visit Casey also visited a local village and made a donation to the local Wanning Government to assist victims of last month's Typhoon Megi.

Michael H.K. Wang, Managing Director of China Resources Shimei Bay Tourism Development (Hainan) Ltd. commented, "We are very excited to have Paul Casey designer our Shimei Bay golf course. Paul has certainly demonstrated a professional attitude and passion for golf course design during this initial site visit. We have a common goal in wanting to create a golf course that is not only of the highest quality, but also the most unique on Hainan Island. Our entire Shimei Bay project will be based on high quality and world class standards and the golf course will be no exception."

Paul Casey, said, "I am very excited to work on my first ever golf course design with a company such as China Resources Company.  Shimei Bay is already a very impressive resort in a beautiful area and I am up to the challenge of designing a golf course that will fit in and become one of the finest in Hainan.  It's also great that my first design project is in China as I always enjoy visiting and playing in China having won two events here in my career, including on Hainan Island back in 2005. I have been studying golf course design for many years and look forward to putting some of my ideas into play at Shimei Bay."

Paul Casey of England is currently ranked number 7 in the world, and is a talented young superstar who burst onto the professional scene in 2000 following an extremely successful amateur career. He already has 11 tournament victories worldwide including 9 on the European Tour and 1 on the US PGA Tour. He also teamed with Luke Donald to win the WGC-World Cup in 2004 and was a member of European Ryder Cup teams in 2006/2008.

For more information please contact Charmaine Tan at IMG tel: (65) 6505-902 e-mail: charmaine.tan@imgworld.com