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Tee off in an extinct volcano, alongside Moghul monuments or just beyond the stone wall of a centuries old Spanish-built fort. |
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Better known for its jade green rice paddies, powder sand beaches and hauntingly beautiful scenery, Bali has stand-out golf courses that incorporate all of these highly scenic appeals. |
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From just one course in 1984, the total number of golf courses in China has grown to over 200 in 2008. After the Olympic Games take to the gold class golf courses of Beijing. |
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Whack! The sharp snap of club connecting with ball cracks through the stillness of the forest. The noise startles a deer that lopes across the jade green playfield. Welcome to golf, British Colombia style! |
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Visitors to Byron Bay, the most easterly town on the world's most easterly continent, sometimes wonder if they are still on planet earth. |
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The staging of the first-ever international golf tournament in Cambodia in late November 2007 put the sporting spotlight on a nation that’s never been associated with the great game. |
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Capricorn International Resort, near Rockhampton (Australia) offers low-cost holidays to handicapped and underprivileged guests |
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Visitors to Chennai, the former Madras, can unwind on a choice of two veteran golf courses and both of them have interesting tales to tell! |
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While it was the British who introduced golf to India in the 1820s it’s only been in the past few years that resort courses of international standard and style have started to green the vast Indian countryside. Many of these are to be found in and around New Delhi. |
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Yachting and golfing go hand in hand with the opening of the Whitsunday Islands' first resort golf course and sophisticated yacht club. Perfect for superyacht owners with a penchant for sweeping fairways amid hilltop greens, stylish elegance arrives in the Whitsundays.
Fiona Harper takes on 18 holes at Hamilton Island Golf Club, followed by sundowners overlooking Dent Passage at Hamilton Island Yacht Club |
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Laos is rapidly emerging as a prime cultural and eco tourism destination with golf also gaining a devout following. |
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Little more than a decade ago there were just three golf courses in Egypt. Today there are nearly 20 fields of green as this sophisticated and sports-friendly African nation becomes a hot bed for golf tourism. |
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Monkeys cavorting on well crafted fairways that skirt a royal forest and views of the mighty Annapurna Range means that golf in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal is an exciting experience. |
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Kolkata, the better known Calcutta, is the not only the home of golf in India, the mega city has the oldest golf club in all of Asia. |
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The blossoming capital city of Yunnan, a province in southwest China, boasts a 2,400-year history. The development of golf is far more recent, with Kunming hosting some of the finest courses in Asia.
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The little Tasmanian village of Bothwell is home to one of the world's top golfing museums |
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Three outstanding fields of green have made Bali the world's best golf island. And one of them is located inside a volcano! |
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Offering more than 20 places to play the great game, Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula has become the 'golf coast' of Australia. |
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The twin courses of Port Douglas, a lush resort north of Cairns, provide stimulation to those who want more than just listening to the waves wash across creamy sands. |
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The high-rise Reef Hotel, on Queensland's Hamilton Island, is the only thing that blots this otherwise pristine environment. |
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Founded in 1589, the state capital of Hyderabad is better known for its distinct cuisine and the rich heritage left by the Nizams. Sample these aspects of the largest city in Andhra Pradesh and then take to the tees of two interesting golf courses. |
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The golf course at Brunei’s Empire Hotel and Country Club is one of the world's most challenging courses. |
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One of the world's newer tourist destinations has actually been receiving visitors since the 4th century BC. |
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The British introduced the great game of golf to Lahore’s sporting scene in the 1890s. Have a great game at a veteran course and then tee off on a modern challenge. |
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There is something decidedly exotic about hopping onboard a private jet and being whisked away to a far-flung South Pacific Island. Particularly so when your destination has been declared one of the 100 most beautiful hotels and resorts of the world.
Reporting from an exclusive retreat on a privately owned island in Fiji, Fiona Harper discovers that perfection has a new name. It's called Laucala Island. |
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The opening of new championship courses in Lithuania during 2009 has been a key factor in establishing this Baltic nation as a desirable golf destination. |
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Where’s the oldest golf course in the southern hemisphere? Mauritius proudly claims this veteran with gusto and also offers a golf bag full of other championship challenges. |
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‘A Sunday landscape’ was Mark Twain’s appraisal of Mauritius in his 1897 book, “More Tramps Abroad”. He wasn’t being rude, merely expanding on his clutch of impressions of this island which included ‘a dainty little vest-pocket Matterhorn’ |
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Norfolk Island's first instance of major violent crime propels this tiny island nation into the world spotlight. |
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Tee off amid koalas and kangaroos on a classy course outside Noosa, the chic capital of Queensland's Sunshine Coast. |
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Manila offers a golf course built around a Spanish fort and another golf resort with a course inside a volcano. |
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Beaches, shopping, nightlife, golf ..... Phuket excels in all departments. Putt around Phuket and enjoy its fine fairways. |
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Handcrafted outrigger canoes, whitewashed churches, the occasional cricket pitch, beehive-shaped fales, the 45 minute drive from Samoa’s international airport to its South Seas capital is an excellent introduction to the very heart of traditional Polynesia. |
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While the great game has been played in idyllic Samoa for over 90 years, it’s only since the opening of two designer courses in the past few years that the tranquil South Pacific nation has become a golf destination of distinction. |
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The mountainous hinterlands of Samui seclude and nurture one of the most scenic golf courses in Thailand. |
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It’s not necessary to pack an alarm clock when preparing for a golf holiday at the Borneo Highlands Resort, a foliage swathed sports sanctuary located an hour outside Kuching in East Malaysia. |
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Head south of Sydney for great games on two lovely golf courses outside Shellharbour. |
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Singapore’s resort-dotted, attraction-studded and activity-oriented holiday island of Sentosa is a stylish and sophisticated golf getaway that offers sweeping vistas over a spectacular city skyline and the mighty expanse of the South China Sea. |
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The British introduced golf to Colombo’s sophisticated sporting scene in 1879 with the construction of the Royal Colombo. Though there are a handful of courses spread throughout the tiny, teardrop shaped island, interest in the great game continues to flourish today . |
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The tranquil wine region of the Hunter Valley, 160 km north of Sydney, has a trio of gourmet golf courses including a signature playground blueprinted by Greg Norman. |
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