Golden Sands Golf Resort (North)

Overview: Golden Sands Golf Resort North is a links-style course on Vietnam's central coast near Hue. The official course site lists an 18-hole, par-72 layout measuring 7,445 yards and identifies Nicklaus Design with the project. Architecture coverage credits Jim Wagner with the design while he was at Nicklaus Design. The course is shaped by a sandy coastal site, with natural dunes and open ground providing the main framework for the holes. That gives the round a distinctly different texture from a tree-lined parkland course, with wind, firm-looking sandy contours and the direction of the land influencing the visual strategy.

History: North soft-opened in September 2024 as the first completed 18-hole course in a planned 36-hole Golden Sands resort. The project is part of the expansion of golf along Vietnam's central coast, but its design is unusually dependent on the site itself: the sandy landscape and existing dune forms are treated as assets rather than obstacles to be erased. The course's early history is therefore both recent and clearly defined, beginning with a first phase that establishes the resort's identity before any second course is counted as operational.

Did You Know? The North course is the first half of a planned 36-hole destination, not a 36-hole course already compressed into one listing. That distinction is useful when comparing course records. The current directory routing refers specifically to North, the 18-hole layout that opened in 2024, while the future second course belongs to the resort's longer development story.