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Siem Reap to Organise Golf Cup 2021 in December
AKP Phnom Penh, December 01, 2021 --

Siem Reap Provincial Authority will organise Siem Reap Golf Cup 2021 on Dec. 10-11.

The update was shared by Mr. Philip Kao, President of Siem Reap Tourism Club Association recently, adding that the event is expected to attract the participation of private sector, especially investors, company owners, tycoons and well-off people in the province.

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Samdech Pichey Sena Tea Banh, President of Golf Association will preside over the contest, he said.

According to Mr. Philip Kao, the Siem Reap Golf Cup 2021 aims to build trust so as to attract more local and foreign tourists to the province as Cambodia has announced to welcome fully vaccinated tourists to the country.

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Article in English by Lim Nary
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Brian Curley begins new 36-hole project in Cambodia
By Richard Humphreys
Thu 13 Oct, 2022

Construction has started on two eighteen-hole golf courses, designed by Brian Curley of Schmidt-Curley Design, and scheduled to open in 2024 at a new club in Phnom Penh City, Cambodia.

The East course will be a formal, parkland layout, while the West will feature a more rugged and natural design centred around large expanses of sand, dotted with islands of native grasses and groves of date trees.

Detailed shaping is in progress on the East, while the West is still in the rough grading process, and the work is being handled by an in-house team along with Martin Moore’s Flagstick Golf Course Construction.

There will be limited residential development around the property’s perimeter. “Our clients have decided to place the golf experience first and foremost to create the best courses in the country,” said Curley. “There is also a strong desire to create two distinctly different layouts, so every effort has been made to optimise this wish.

“A massive amount of earthmoving was undertaken to create large bodies of water for irrigation use, and the excavated dirt was used to lift grades above flood levels. The design and grading efforts were also used to create vast, sweeping open views across the lakes, establishing a distinct character that will be drastically different from other courses in the marketplace.

“There is plenty of cross slope on many fairways and a strong reliance on surface drainage, not catch basins. Much of the dirt was placed under the golf holes as opposed to creating mounds framing each hole, as so many courses do. There was an emphasis on creating landforms, not mounding, so the courses feel as if they were laid out upon a naturally golf-friendly terrain.”

Curley says the excavation of lakes enabled them to lift the courses out of the floodplain. “While the lakes are a very dominant feature of the landscape, there was a strong effort in the design to incorporate the water features into play, but always with more than adequate width. We have made sure to not have water in play hole after hole. The concept was to create wide views over water but without a relentless attack of demanding shots with water in play.”
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First of two Curley layouts for new Cambodia club to open next year
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The East course at City Golf, Cambodia, will open in January 2024
By Alice Chambers
Mon 17 Jul, 2023

Grassing is almost complete on the East course at City Golf, the new club in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, that was previewed in the October 2022 issue of GCA.

City Golf will have two eighteen-hole layouts designed by Brian Curley of Schmidt-Curley Design. The East is set to open in January 2024 and the West will follow in 2025.

“We’re aiming to make the two courses as different as possible,” said Curley. “The East offers a much more traditional take on design with formal bunkering while the West will be more rugged and natural.”

The project is requiring significant earthmoving, with Curley preferring massive landforms over small-scale mounding, to create a more natural golf experience.

“The property was a floodplain, so a fairly significant dirt move has lifted the two courses up and five lakes have been excavated to create the fill,” said Curley. “Although there is a lot of water, my intention was to provide ample room for golf and to not have water constantly in play.”

The architect is providing variety in terms of setup and strategy, with multiple teeing options and substantial contour, such as at the driveable par-four fifteenth (pictured) with various angles of attack.

The two courses connect at the eighteenth. “The closing hole on the East is a par five with water sweeping from tee to green,” said Curley. “The hole plays from the highest point on the property, atop a huge landform that hosts both course’s eighteenth tees. This offers extended views over the large lake and the island-green nineteenth, which will be a par-three bonus hole accessible by boat.”

This article first appeared in the July 2023 issue of Golf Course Architecture.
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September 4, 2023
Red Hornet Chairman Cup golf tournament benefits CMAA
The Red Hornets hosted the annual Red Hornets Chairman Cup 2023 Drive for Charity golf tournament on Friday to raise funds to support the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA).

The fourth edition of the competition teed off Friday morning at Garden City Golf Club, Phnom Penh. Several corporate sponsors got behind the fundraiser, including Prince Bank, CB Insurance, Masswork, Cellcard and Ballentine’s whisky.

The tournament attracted 60 participants, including Ly Thuch, the First Vice-President of the CMAA, Ueno Atsushi, the Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia, Park Jung Wook, the Korean Ambassador to Cambodia, and also Ouch Borith – Senior Minister in the new government.

Three categories featured in the tournament were the men’s and women’s divisions as well as team events.
The event raised $12,000 for the CMAA cause.
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Foreign Ministry Holds Diplomatic-Business Friendship Golf Tournament
Phnom Penh, October 03, 2023--

The National Institute of Diplomacy and International Relations (NIDIR) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFA.IC) organised here at the Garden City Golf Club on Oct. 3 the "Diplomacy-Business Friendship Golf Tournament" under the presidency of H.E. Deputy Prime Minister SOK Chenda Sophea, Minister of MFA.IC.

According to the MFA.IC, the Tournament was led by H.E. OUCH Borith, Senior Minister in Charge of Special Missions and attended by leaders and senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leaders from various ministries and institutions, heads of diplomatic missions, international organisations in Cambodia, as well as national and international investors/business community in Cambodia.

The golf event is an initiative of H.E. Deputy Prime Minister SOK Chenda Sophea that aims to implement the Ministry's Economic Diplomacy Strategy launched in 2021, a strategy that contributes to achieving Cambodia's vision of an upper middle-income country by 2030 and a high-income country by 2050.

Addressing the prize giving ceremony, H.E. Deputy Prime Minister underlined that today's golf tournament is the Ministry's first sports event to support the Economic Diplomacy Strategy. The tournament is not considered a platform for competition but as an arena for building friendship and cooperation among public institutions, foreign embassies, and the private sector in Cambodia.

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