Professional Golf News
2011 Golfasian Amateur Golf Week Tournaments
The 2011 Golfasian Amateur Golf Week Tournaments tee off with the Hua Hin Amateur Golf Week, starting 12th March through 18th March and then moves throughout the country during 2011, playing the best courses in each area in a...[more]
Cassells Joins Ocean Dunes as General Manager
Drappier bolsters Vietnam experience as Operations ManagerPHAN THIET, Vietnam (20 January 2011) – Glenn Cassells, a golf professional with extensive experience in Vietnam and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, has been appointed...[more]
Thai Country Club to Host Queen Sirikit's Breast Cancer Centre Benefit on January 24th 2011
BANGKOK (17 January 2011) - Thai Country Club, one of the country's premier championship venues, will end a 3-year tournament hiatus on 24 January, when it plays host to Queen Sirikit's Breast Cancer Centre Benefit Tournament, an...[more]
Superintendents' Association Formed to Raise Course Conditions throughout Vietnam
QUANG NAM, Vietnam (8 Dec. 2010) - Golfers generally associate the concept of quantum advances in technology with equipment like oversized drivers made from space-age materials, sophisticated golf simulators, launch monitors, and...[more]
Ocean Dunes Golf Club Reciprocates with Top Singapore Clubs
PHAN THIET, Vietnam - One of Vietnam's top golf resorts is getting firmly into the Singapore swing by forging reciprocal arrangements with some of the premier clubs in the island republic. Ocean Dunes Golf Club...[more]
Central Vietnam Accessible from Hong Kong Beginning Nov. 19
Service to and from Danang offered Tuesdays, Fridays DA NANG, Viet Nam (Nov. 2, 2010) - Two months after four of Central Vietnam's top properties partnered to form the Vietnam Golf Coast (www.vietnamgolfcoast.com), the country's...[more]
Danang Golf Club Names Phil Wright Head Pro
New hire caddied for Baker-Finch, trained under Leadbetter DANANG, Vietnam (Oct. 27, 2010) - Phil Wright, Australian PGA professional and former caddie of 1991 British Open champion Ian Baker-Finch, is the latest golf industry...[more]
Vina Properties Brings New Era, Energy to Talat Palace Golf Club
Dalat, Vietnam (12 October 2010) - What's old is new again: Saigon-based Vina Properties has acquired Dalat Palace Golf Club, long an iconic presence on the Southeast Asian golf scene. Dalat Palace GC was voted the country's...[more]
Thailand's Golf Mecca Tees Up Special Season
Hua Hin Offering Rounds for US$25 until October HUA HIN, Thailand (Aug. 20, 2010) - What price golf in a place the former editor of Golf Magazine (USA) recently compared to a "Zen-like experience"? Less than...[more]
Golfplan Breaks Ground on Saigon Resort 18
HO CHI MINH CITY - The course architects at Golfplan have stepped up construction of 18 resort holes here in the Vietnamese capital. Jeong San Vina Golf Club takes up unique residence on an island in the Saigon River, directly...[more]
Danang GC Draws Curtain Back on Dunes Course
Greg Norman design in Vietnam officially open for play DANANG, Vietnam (May 6, 2010) - On a day when most of Vietnam was celebrating the 35th anniversary of the country's reunification, a select number of residents were in...[more]
Decision 1946' lays down the law re. VN golf development
HO CHI MINH CITY - The Vietnamese Government has issued a broad suite of golf course development guidelines that should go a long way toward legitimizing and codifying future development here, according Asian golf industry...[more]
Colin Montgomerie awed by visit to Montgomerie Links and environs
QUANG NAM, Vietnam (April 26, 2010) - It's difficult to tell who enjoyed Colin Montgomerie's visit to the Danang area earlier in the week more - the members of Montgomerie Links, who got to play a few holes with the European PGA...[more]
Colin Montgomerie opens Montgomerie Links in style, sets course record
QUANG NAM, Vietnam (April 21, 2010) - Colin Montgomerie officially opened the golf course he designed and bears his name. A festive atmosphere pervaded Montgomerie's first full round at the course, as he followed ribbon-cutting...[more]
"Honda-PTT LPGA Thailand 2010" returns to Siam Country Club Old Course
Honda Automobile, PTT, Channel 7 and IMG are proud to announce the return of ladies professional golf tournament, the Honda–PTT LPGA Thailand 2010. One of Thailand's marquee events, this tournament will once again take place at...[more]
THE ROYAL TROPHY – FORMAT & SCHEDULE OF PLAY
In keeping with tradition, the competition format for the fourth edition of the Royal Trophy will remain similar to the previous Matches. However, according to officials, the Championship may still experience certain rule...[more]
Asia leads at Royal Trophy
Asia took a commanding 6½ to 1½ lead over Europe by dominating Saturday's fourball play at the match-play Royal Trophy. The Asian pairs won three of four in the fourball and halved the other to take a big lead at the Royal...[more]
Prayad takes lead in first PGA Championship
BLOOMFIELD HILLS: Thailand's Prayad Marksaeng is making the most of his maiden PGA Championship appearance. Prayad, who is the top money earner on the Japan Golf Tour this season, wasted no time picking up where he left off in...[more]
Golf: Thailand's Thongchai upstages Els and Mickelson at Scottish Open
LOCH LOMOND, Scotland: Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee and Sweden's Alexander Noren shared the first round lead at the Scottish Open on Thursday as the tournament's heavy artillery failed to fire.An early starter, former paratrooper...[more]
Five day golf familiarization trip to Thailand newly announced
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) together with Golfasian have organized a five day golf familiarization (FAM) trip for Australian travel agents to Bangkok and Hua Hin that introduced them to the...[more]
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