Why a plan to build houses on a favoured golf course has Hong Kong’s elite fighting Beijing

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Open this photo in gallery: Hong Kong Golf Club is located in Fanling, a town just four kilometres from the city’s border with China. The 18-hole course was opened in 1911, on 172 hectares leased from the government. Since 1959 it has been home to the Hong Kong Open, one of Asia’s premier golfing events.PHILIP FONG/AFP/Getty Images In a matter of a few years, the Hong Kong government has crushed the city’s protest movement, jailed pro-democracy politicians and muzzled a once combative and freewheeling press. When challenged, officials said they were building a new system that would be more efficient,...