Category: Asia
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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. Myers shares his Top-10 play and stay golf resorts in Asia, from the world’s biggest super club at Mission Hills China – home to 10 golf courses – to Laguna Lang, the new must-visit Vietnamese resort. “For most…
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REVIEW | Delhi Golf Club | Temples and Traffic
A review of Delhi Golf Club, India, where Thomas Marr found fairways and greens lined by temples and a soundtrack of revving rickshaws.
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Review | Bali Handara Golf Resort | Volcanoes and Vistas
Chris Hogben plays Bali Handara Golf, the highest mountain golf course in Indonesia set in an extinct volcano. Read his review of Bali Handara Golf…
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Tea-Time | Sri Lanka | Golf Guide
The island nation of Sri Lanka, a former British colony renowned for producing fine tea, is a refreshingly different blend of golf road trip
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5 Luxury Asian Golf resorts off-the-beaten-track
Step off the beaten track and discover five of the best luxury Asian golf resorts you may never have heard of!
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Golf course with no bunkers is best in Asia-Pacific
A golf course with no bunkers, redesigned by four time Major Champion Ernie Els, has been voted the best in the Asia-Pacific region at a prestigious property awards. The Els Club Teluk Datai in Malaysia was named the region’s ‘Best Golf Course’ at the 2014 Asia-Pacific Property Awards. Els’ rainforest golf course We recently featured…
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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…
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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…
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Indonesia’s Lonely Links – New Kuta Golf
New Kuta Golf is Indonesia’s only links golf course. Danny Bowerin travelled to Bali to tackle its tiger tees and savor sensational sunsets at its 19th hole
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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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Reader Photo: Ria Bintan Golf Club, Indonesia
Martin Parry, a British investment banker based in Singapore, says: “The par three ninth at Ria Bintan. Quite simply one of the best golf holes I have ever played. This photo doesn’t even do it justice.” Mr. M Parry