Asian golf Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/asian-golf Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Sun, 24 May 2026 18:26:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Asian golf Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/asian-golf 32 32 Golf on Sand: Ascendant Neo-Scrub Movement Meets Curious Headwinds in Asia https://www.halphillips.net/ascendant-sand-scrub-movement-meets-curious-headwinds-in-asia?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ascendant-sand-scrub-movement-meets-curious-headwinds-in-asia https://www.halphillips.net/ascendant-sand-scrub-movement-meets-curious-headwinds-in-asia#respond Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:11:01 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=4490 There are two kinds of golfers in this world: those whose tastes hew to The St. Andrews Ideal, and those whose preferences gravitate toward The Augusta National Ideal. Courses built and maintained according to the St. Andrews paragon we identify generically as “links”. This prototypical golf on sand, natural and treeless, firm and fast, lightly kempt […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/ascendant-sand-scrub-movement-meets-curious-headwinds-in-asia/feed 0 Thai Golf: Where Buddy Trips are Writ Large and Bawdy https://www.halphillips.net/thai-golf-the-buddy-trip-writ-large?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thai-golf-the-buddy-trip-writ-large https://www.halphillips.net/thai-golf-the-buddy-trip-writ-large#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2017 08:41:09 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=265 PATTAYA, Thailand (Sept. 5, 2017) — It’s 11 p.m. local time and my 8-man golfing gaggle is strolling down the main drag here. Pattaya’s “Walking Street” is the epicenter what most consider the capital of Thai Golf. The days and nights we’ve spent here, south of Bangkok, depart so radically from typical North American buddy […]

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