Dalat Palace Golf Club - Vietnam

Dalat Palace Golf Club is in the central highlands of Vietnam in Dalat, known as the "City of Eternal Spring" for its cool, crisp mountain air. The course was built in 1922 as a nine-hole layout. In the 1950s, the course was expanded to 18 holes and then redesigned in 1994. A four-and-a-half hour drive north of Ho Chi Minh City, through rice paddies and banana farms, the course is banked through the soft hills of Dalat sprinkled with pines. There are a number of ponds on the course, which sits above Xu an Huong Lake, named for an 18th-century woman poet. Dalat was a favorite summer retreat of French colonialists seeking an escape from the oppressive summer heat and attracted by the area's lakes and waterfalls. They built the Mediterranean villas which give the city its architectural distinction and also earned Dalat the title of "Le Petit Paris." The clubhouse, built in 1956 and recently restored, is in the French colonial style.

Singapore Island Country Club (Bukit Course) - Singapore

Singapore Island Country Club is the golf capital of the small, prosperous island nation founded in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles. The club is the result of the combination in 1963 of the Royal Singapore Golf Club and the Royal Island Golf Club, which in turn trace their origins to the Singapore Sporting Club. The club now has four courses, the Bukit ("Hill"), the Island, the New, and the Sime. In 1891, members of the Singapore Sporting Club formed a nine-hole golf club. By 1920, the club decided to build an 18-hole course, and a 250-acre site was obtained adjoining the MacRitchie Reservoir. Designed by the great Scottish professional James Braid, the original Bukit Course, opened in 1924, remains Singapore Island's showcase. Braid feared sea travel, and so, as with his other creations outside Britain, he designed the course by mail using topographical maps. The fairways were hacked from the dense jungle and English trees planted in addition to the native species, creating a traditional parkland look. The hilly Bukit Course with its Bermuda fairways hosted the 1969 World Cup, won by the U.S. team of Lee Trevino and Orville Moody.