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Vietnam Golf Coast sets spotlight on ‘best courses in the country’
the maturation of golf in vietnam takes
another step forward today with formation of
the vietnam Golf Coast, a new partnership of
golf and beach resorts in the Central Coast city
of danang. the consortium’s web hub, www.
vietnamgolfcoast.com, also has gone live this
month. vietnam’s standing as an up-an-coming
golf destination is no secret, but establishment
of the vietnam Golf Coast coordinates for
tourists the country’s top new courses with its
finest hotels and beaches, all in one place. that
place is a comely stretch of sand in danang, 20
minutes from an international airport that sits
within 2-hour flights of both singapore and
Hong Kong. indeed, the first of 30 regularly
scheduled charter flights to danang out of
Hong Kong on vietnam Airlines will commence
sept. 17, and will fly every tuesday and Friday
thereafter. this confluence of new international
routes obviously makes access to danang
far more convenient. With all this in place, we
see the Central Coast as the first vietnamese
destination fully equipped to compete with the
best of Asia’s beach destinations.”
the founding members of the vietnam Golf
Coast are:
• montgomerie Links vietnam: designed by
sitting european ryder Cup Captain Colin
montgomerie and opened in August 2009,
monty Links was recently ranked 7th on the list
of top courses in all of southeast