DANANG, Vietnam (Nov. 20, 2017) — If the 18th Asian Golf Awards was a round of golf, it would have been a near-perfect one for Vietnam. Not only did the country — and Danang, in particular — host the prestigious event for the first time ever last Thursday night (Nov. 16), representatives of its golf...
DANANG, Vietnam (Nov. 1, 2017) — The only golf course in the world designed by former top-ranked player Luke Donald is the best new layout in Vietnam. That was the message delivered yesterday to Ba Na Hills Golf Club when it won ‘Best New Course 2016-2017’ at the annual Vietnam Golf Magazine Awards ceremony in...
DANANG, Vietnam (Oct. 19, 2017) – For the second time in three months, the ‘World’s Best New Golf Course’ has hosted a prestigious tournament. On Oct. 15, Ba Na Hills Golf Club served as site of the 2nd Annual IMG Trophy, an 18-hole stroke-play competition that attracted 124 players from around the country. The day-long...
HO TRAM, Vietnam (Sept. 26, 2017) — Officials at The Bluffs Ho Tram Strip have announced that the Asian Tour will return to Vietnam’s most acclaimed golf facility in 2018 and 2019. The Ho Tram Players Championship will take place Dec. 6-9 next year, and then again at some point the following season. In 2015, the links-style layout...
DANANG, Vietnam — The growing interest in central Vietnam’s potential to become the world’s next great golf destination was on display earlier this week, when the first of two major golf conferences scheduled for Danang this year took place in and around the budding beach resort. The 6th Asia Golf Tourism Convention (AGTC) attracted a...
BALI, Indonesia — Less than a year since breaking onto Bali’s golf scene with a course unlike any other in Southeast Asia, Bukit Pandawa Golf & Country Club is in the running for a significant international award — ‘World’s Best Par-3 Course.’ The imaginative collection of 18 championship-standard one-shotters on the southernmost tip of Bali...
LANG CO, Vietnam — The first of three prestigious golf events to be held at Laguna Lang Co over a five-month stretch takes place Nov. 10-13, when the 2nd Annual Laguna Golf Classic is staged at the only Sir Nick Faldo-designed course in Vietnam. Hosted by Faldo, who designed the lauded links-style layout and is...
BALI, Indonesia — Bali’s evolution into a legitimate international golf destination gained some remarkable new standing last weekend with the opening of Bukit Pandawa Golf & Country Club, the fifth golf venue on the Island of the Gods and the first 18-hole par-3 championship course in Indonesia. Designed by Bob Moore of California-based JMP Golf...
DANANG, Vietnam — Ba Na Hills Golf Club, the newest championship course on Vietnam’s Central Coast, gained another level of notoriety on Sept. 24 when it hosted its first prestigious tournament since opening in March. Called the IMG Trophy, the 18-hole stroke-play event attracted 120 players from around the country who competed for a range of...
HUA HIN, Thailand — Brussels. Istanbul. Nice. Hua Hin. Barely a month goes by these days when some part of the world or another doesn’t suffer a blow by extremists bent on this or that. The travel warnings sound. Governments issue statements. And no one knows quite what to do. But when it comes to...
