26 TEE BOX Construction work is advancing on the first of two Nicklaus Design courses at the new Rose Canyon resort in Ha Nam, an hour’s drive south of Hanoi, Vietnam. “The golf course site was an old quarry comprising impressive nearvertical mountains, low lying f lat lands and water filled excavations,” said Sean Quinn, senior design associate at Nicklaus Design. “The dramatic mountains relate to every part of the golf course. Holes play between and around the monolithic Two of the par threes, the eleventh and fifteenth, play directly over water Greens on the par-five ninth and twelfth holes sit directly against lakes The third can play to an alternate green cut into the mountainside Golfers will bite off as much of the lake as they dare on the seventh and eighth A large lake to the right of the thirteenth and fourteenth holes acts as a buffer to the housing development Rose Canyon (South) COURSE BLUEPR INT
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