Royal Golf Club (Queen)

Overview: Royal Golf Club Queen is the newer 18-hole routing at the Royal complex in Ninh Binh, set among limestone ridges, natural lakes and the foothills around Tam Diep. The official club introduction credits Jack Nicklaus II, with Flagstick overseeing construction and Donald Page named for shaping. The course's landscape is more geological than manicured: rock formations interrupt sightlines, fairways rise and fall through the hills, and greens are framed by stone, water and changing slopes. The current public record confirms the 18-hole identity but does not supply one reliable par and yardage pair, so the profile describes the route without inventing scorecard numbers.

History: Queen officially opened on 29 April 2023, more than a decade after the original King Course began operating in January 2010. It expanded Royal Golf Club from its first Ninh Binh routing into a broader resort complex while keeping a separate design identity. The official history describes Queen as an 18-hole course, although some public listings summarise the wider property using different total-hole counts. This entry follows the directory route name and the official course description, treating Queen as its own current 18-hole course.

Did You Know? The official Queen hole guide describes the ninth green as a valley surrounded by rocky hills, with a sloping approach and a narrow entrance. That closing-hole setting captures the course's central visual idea: the limestone landscape is not just scenery around the fairways, but an active part of how the greens are seen and approached.