Thailand on course to become world’s top golf destination
A leading golf tour operator has predicted that Thailand will become the world’s leading golf tourism destination by 2016 if the current rate of growth in golf holidays continues. Thai golf tourism is riding on the back of a tourism explosion to the kingdom, with total foreign arrivals doubling in the past seven years to [...]
Asia’s Top-10 Play and Stay Golf Resorts
Paul Myers is an Asia travel expert based in Bangkok, Thailand and publishes Asian Travel Media News. He rounds up his Top-10 play and stay golf resorts for Global Golfer; from the world’s biggest super club at Mission Hills China – with its 10 golf courses – to Vietnam’s newest golf resort at Laguna Lang [...]
Sunset Swing in the Seychelles
The Seychelles isn’t one of the first places to spring to mind when booking a golf break, more like a honeymoon or a scuba diving trip. There’s not even a full 18 holes of golf to tempt you to check your clubs onto the plane – the golf course on the mainland island of Mahe [...]
New Faldo course opens in Vietnam
A new coastal resort golf course, designed by six-time major winner Sir Nick Faldo, has opened for play on Vietnam’s Central Coast. The Laguna Lăng Cô Golf Club is the newest golf course in Vietnam, a country recently voted golf destination of the year for Asia and Australasia at the IAGTO (International Association of Golf [...]
Volcanoes and Vistas – Bali Handara Golf
For golfers seeking to play a round or two whilst visiting the idyllic island of Bali, the coastal courses of New Kuta and Nirwana Bali are a good bet, but Chris Hogben ventured off the beaten track and discovered a hidden gem at Bali Handara. Bali Handara is the highest mountain golf course in Indonesia [...]
Indonesia’s Lonely Links – New Kuta Golf
New Kuta Golf is Indonesia’s only links golf course. Danny Bowerin travelled to Bali to tackle the ‘Tiger’ tees at this cliff-top resort and savour sensational sunsets at its 19th hole. Located on the southern tip of Bali Island and perched above a limestone cliff overlooking stunning Dreamland and Balangan Beach, New Kuta was the [...]
First golf facility for former Soviet State
Work has started on the first-ever golf facility to be built in Azerbaijan. The Republic of Azerbaijan is the biggest country in the Caucasus region, at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, and is bordered by Russia, Armenia and Iran. While it was the first Muslim majority country to hold opera, theatre and [...]
First golf course to open on Maldives
The first golf course on the Maldives is to open later this month. Hong Kong based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific’s leading hotel group, has announced that a 9-hole golf course will open near to its resort on the southern end of Villingili Island on March 27. The course is built on a 19 [...]
Temples and Traffic – Delhi Golf Club
Global Golfer’s Scotland Correspondent Thomas Marr took a work trip to Delhi, India and discovered an unusual golf course amid the buzz of traffic and the majesty of temples… When my work took me to Delhi, India, in 2011 I left my clubs at home and didn’t give a second thought to playing golf. Curiosity [...]
Reader Photo: Nirwana Bali Golf Club, Bali
Reader Graham Hudson sent in this photo of him playing at Nirwana Bali Golf on the Island of Bali. He says: “I love the caddies at this place. If you look left that’s the Indian Ocean and a Hindu temple on the island on the left. There is another temple by the side of the [...]
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