Lake Malaren Golf Club will host the Lake Malaren Shanghai Masters for five consecutive years from October 2011-2015. The Shanghai Masters will host many of the top 30 players in the worldwide and a massive prize pot. In order to fully prepare for the tournament and meet higher requirements, Lake Malaren Golf Club has hired Nicklaus Design, who are one of the world's leading Shanghai golf course design companies to redesign this Shanghai golf course. The main design concept of the south lakes course is to create a world class championship Shanghai golf course that is challenging, fun, and fair for all golfing enthuasists. The course will test the best Shanghai golfers in the world through a variety of different shots and strategic elements. It will also be a very exciting and fair Shanghai golf course for the beginning to average Shanghai golfers who will enjoy the large variety of dramatic holes and the natural beauty of the layout. The south Shanghai course is characterized as natural parkland style that incorporates many natural elements into the design. These elements include trees, natural grasses, lakes and streams, and a strong rolling topography giving the course a significant amount of elevation change and a wide variety of different golf shots. The course will have a very natural feel and look, that will be both aesthetically pleasing as well as strategically sound. This Shanghai golf course will have fantastic variety of features that will give the course a lot of interest and a variety of challenge while being very fun and exciting to play.