Golf Hotels & Golf Courses - Phan Thiet on central coast

Ocean Dunes Golf Club

The Ocean Dunes Golf Club in Phan Tiet has been designed by the three times Masters champion Nick Faldo in the years 1996/98. "Ocean Dunes Golf Club is an outstanding natural site with sand dunes, sea breezes, beach vegetation and panoramic ocean vistas". said Faldo "We have let the dunes determine the routing and the look of the golf course. It should have the feel and the playability of the early seaside courses, but with a tropical climate."

Located on the seashore, in the northern outskirt of the quiet fishers' city of Phan Tiet, Ocean Dunes Golf course lies in front of and around the Novotel Coralia Hotel which opens its windows on the beach. It features a 6,746-yard, par 72, golf course which slaloms through the seaside dunes and coastal breezes shape the course's day-to-day characteristics.

Nick Faldo is coming every year for a follow up and implementation of certain improvments on the course. He designed Ocean Dunes golf in a way that makes it a playable course for high handicap players who will enjoy the openness of its links-styling, but also with exciting opportunities for more experienced players who will appreciate the challenges posed by the ever-present ocean breezes. In fact even if there is only a part of the holes which are near the beach, winds are blowing every and palmtrees indicate clearly the sense of the main ocean wind.

Out of the winds, eight ponds offer water hazards to 12 holes while greens of #9 and 12, and tees of #13 have beautiful direct look to the beaches and their permanent white toped waves.

Ocean Dunes course was ranked the #1 course in Vietnam in 1999 & 2000 by Golf Digest. The Asian Golfer gave the course a "A+" rating, "one of the finest golf clubs of the world. The hole-9, par 3, is one of the Best 500 Holes in the World (by Golf Magazine - December 1999).

Sculpted out of the coastal dunes, along the Eastern Sea, the Ocean Dunes Golf Club is the ideal respite from the demands of daily life. Brilliant sun, windswept dunes and sea breezes makes it one of the most exciting links style courses in the region.