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This country offers much more than delicious food and incredible landscapes. Vietnam is an Exciting golf destination, promising a first-rate experience as it evolves from its war-stricken past. Mike Bridge is excited to get a new stamp in his passport… I have been very fortunate over the years to travel to most major countries, so it was exciting to be travelling to Vietnam, a new destination for me and to grab another stamp in my passport. Flying into Ho Chi Min City (HCMC), formerly known as Saigon, and you soon begin to realise how the pace of travel here has moved on, and now domestic flights are the way to get around the country. For a country of only 125,622 square miles, it is amazing to think Vietnam has 46 airports! The country mainly relies on its agriculture including rice, coffee, rubber, tea, pepper, soybeans, cashews, sugar cane, peanuts, bananas; poultry; fish, seafood for its main exports. However, the government here unlike their Chinese neighbours, have r...

Perhaps not on the top of your list of golfing countries, the Philippines is still for many an exciting destination. So my friends and I decided to escape the craziness of Thailand’s Songran Festival for a new adventure... This was my first trip to the Philippines, which meant a new stamp in the passport (yay!). We flew to Manila to check out the city plus the golf in the capital, before heading up to Clark and Angeles City, around two hour’s drive north of the capital.      From December to May, the climate is generally dry, but it can get dense and humid during the summer months from March to May, when average temperatures reach as high as 35°c. Avoid the months of July to November as they can be drenching wet due to the serial typhoons. We went after Easter in mid April and the weather was fine. IN GREAT SHAPE.  Golf in this region is in pretty good shape, with many of the top names including the likes of Palmer, Faldo, Langer, Dye, Nicklaus and Robert T...