Released on = April 30, 2007, 10:09 am

Press Release Author = GolfPublisher Syndications

Industry = Media

Press Release Summary = Vietnam Golf and Country Club: No more bomb craters. Asian
golf course reviews at TravelGolf.com

Press Release Body = By Tim McDonald,
National Golf Editor,
Golf Publisher Syndications

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (April 26, 2007) - They covered up the bomb craters at the
Vietnam Golf and Country Club a few years ago and took away the signs explaining
\"Traces of war.\"

No more traces of war here at this exclusive private club, about 35 heart-stopping
minutes from the heart of Ho Chi Minh City. There are only un-bombed bunkers with
the startling white sand trucked in from Cam Rahn Bay.

The Vietnamese, a genuinely friendly and curious people, are very open about the
war. But the subject could be a little touchy, seeing that unexploded ordnance
continues to be a problem for this scarred country that has fought so many wars in
its proud history.

In any case, the country club doesn\'t need tourist attractions to lure golfers; the
east and west golf courses here host around 80,000 rounds a year. It\'s the country\'s
only real private club, though it\'s a Vietnamese private club that is played by many
Asian tourists.

The two golf courses couldn\'t be more different.

\"Chalk and cheese,\" said general manager and superintendent Blair Cornthwaite, a New
Zealander who\'s been in the country a couple of years. \"The east course is very
generous off the tee and challenging around the greens. The west is tighter and
older, with a lot of mature trees lining the fairways. The greens are big and flat.\"

New Zealanders are known to be prone to understatement, and it\'s more than true that
the greens at the east are challenging. They\'re small and undulating, some with
ridges and spines running through them, together with some fairly dramatic slope.
You can read the undulation correctly, but if your speed is off, it\'s hello and
goodbye.

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April 27, 2007
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