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Hoiana Shores Golf Club
Designed by WATG with Robert Trent Jones II, this 18-hole golf course has rapidly established its reputation as the number one new course in the world, as voted in the 2020 World Golf Awards
Photo credit: Gary Lisbon
At a glance
Hoiana Shores Golf Club is a 77-hectare, 18-hole links and dunes golf course within the Hoiana integrated resort development on the Vietnamese coast south of Danang, designed by WATG’s Architecture + Design Consultancy, Landscape Architecture, and Master Planning studios in collaboration with Robert Trent Jones II, and opened in late 2019. The course follows a strong links and dunes visual character, with native grasses, a large open bunker system, and nature-inspired artificial irrigation lakes designed to recycle surface rainwater and encourage wetland edge habitats. The project received the World Golf Awards World’s Best New Golf Course 2020 and ranked No.1 on Golf Digest’s Best Golf Courses in Vietnam 2020.
Project Data
- Location
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Hoi An, Vietnam
Asia Pacific
- Size
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77 hectares
18-hole golf course
- Services
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Architecture + Design Consultancy, Landscape Architecture, Master Planning
The Hoiana Shores Golf Club is the first of two courses to be developed within the $4 billion 985-hectare Hoiana Casino and Resort development on the Vietnamese coast south of Danang, which also features components designed by WATG (Master Planning, Architecture and Landscape Architecture).
Photo credit: Gary Lisbon
Photo credit: Gary Lisbon
Photo credit: Gary Lisbon
Nature-inspired artificial irrigation lakes are designed to recycle surface rainwater and encourage wetland edge habitats to thrive.
Following a strong links and dunes visual character, and conceived in collaboration with Robert Trent Jones II, the course and surrounding landscape consist predominantly of native grasses incorporating a large open bunker system. Nature-inspired artificial irrigation lakes are designed to recycle surface rainwater and encourage wetland edge habitats to thrive.
Photo credit: Gary Lisbon
Since opening for play in late 2019, Hoiana Shores Golf Club has ranked at No.1 on Golf Digest’s 2020 “The Best Golf Courses in Every Country” for Vietnam and, more recently, has taken out the title of “World’s Best New Golf Course 2020” in the World Golf Awards.
In addition to the course, WATG is also currently designing various components the accompanying Golf Clubhouse and adjacent Casino and Hotel.
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