The 3rd "I Love Vietnam" Golf Tournament - 2025: More than 100 golfers are excited before the G hour

More than 100 golfers have completed their registration to compete, in time to attend the event organized by Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper on June 28 at Tan Son Nhat Golf Course (HCMC).

Join hands with the community

The "I Love Vietnam" golf tournament was first organized by the Lao Dong Newspaper in September 2023, with the aim of creating a playground for both professional and amateur golfers in Ho Chi Minh City and provinces and cities across the country. Through this sporting event, the Lao Dong Newspaper officially initiated a campaign to raise donations and auction items to raise more funds for the "Proud of the National Flag" program and the "Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper Scholarship" program.

Giải Golf — Golfers of Saigon Golf Tourism Association participate in the tournament (Photo: NGOC DOAN)

With the scale of a sporting event combined with a fundraising activity to serve the social community, the Organizing Committee of the 3rd "I Love Vietnam" Golf Tournament - 2025 has considered and finalized the composition of participating athletes with an appropriate number. In addition, to ensure the highest success, the Organizing Committee has issued competition regulations with many strict provisions; ensuring fairness and transparency; helping golfers confidently compete towards the best results.

Golfers participating in the 3rd "I Love Vietnam" Golf Tournament - 2025 will start simultaneously at 12:00 on June 28, competing in a direct stroke play format according to handicap through an 18-hole round, 3 different groups. The champion of the tournament will have the lowest total (gross) score after the end of the competition. Meanwhile, the winner of each group will have the lowest total (net) score after the end of the tournament.

If the weather conditions are not suitable, golfers are required to stop playing and temporarily move to a safe area until the tournament can continue. In case a golfer cannot finish the round, the Organizing Committee will apply par + handicap (index) points for golfers with official handicaps from 0-36, and double bogey points for golfers without official handicaps.

Enhanced connectivity

Having participated in both the first two seasons of 2023 and 2024, golfer Han Tan Quang continues to participate in the 3rd "I Love Vietnam" Golf Tournament this year with great expectations. He is one of 10 active members of the Binh Duong 4.0 golf group participating in the tournament with the determination to improve on the achievements he achieved in the previous two seasons.

The 3rd tournament this year was held to acknowledge the stature, prestige and professionalism of the event initiated and directly organized by the Lao Dong Newspaper, in which the communication work of the tournament was very good. Golf is not only a sport but also a bridge between golfers, between businesses and businesses and businesses and the press.

The tournament of Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper also calls on each golfer to promote their role and sense of responsibility to society and the community in the socialization of sports. "That connection will bring success to the tournament and each of us golfers hopes for positive results, as motivation to continue participating in the following seasons" - golfer Han Tan Quang shared.

According to Ms. Doan Ngoc Thao, General Secretary of the Saigon Golf Tourism Association, golf is now a popular sport, not only providing physical training for the practitioner but also helping golfers build a modern and effective work management mindset from practice as well as golf competitions.

"The Saigon Golf Tourism Association decided to "send" 8 members to participate in the "I love Vietnam" tournament this year to enhance connectivity and exchange with other associations and groups. Not only participating in a sporting event, coming to the "I love Vietnam" tournament, we can also share and contribute to community service activities as the tournament's criteria" - golfer Doan Ngoc Thao emphasized.

Saigon Golf Tourism Association (under the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Association) was established only 2 years ago, focusing on building a supply chain for golf tourism products, developing and selling golf tours; organizing tournaments associated with major tourism events in Ho Chi Minh City, aiming to attract international visitors from the markets of Korea, Japan, China, etc.

At the closing gala of the 3rd "I Love Vietnam" Golf Tournament - 2025, the Organizing Committee will award 100 million VND to representatives of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Police Veterans Association and the Ho Chi Minh City Veterans Association to be used to give scholarships to children of veterans in difficult circumstances.

On this occasion, the program "Circle of Love" of Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper will present to the Ho Chi Minh City Association of Agent Orange Victims 100 million VND (from the profit from the sale of the book "30 Years of Journalism" by author - journalist To Dinh Tuan, Editor-in-Chief of Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper); and at the same time, each of the 5 victims of Agent Orange will receive a gift and 1 million VND.

The "Circle of Love" program is expected to receive a donation of 100 million VND from Nam A Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Nam A Bank) and 50 million VND from Tan Son Nhat Golf Course, equivalent to 938 copies of the book "30 Years of Journalism". These books were authorized by Nam A Bank and Tan Son Nhat Golf Course to be presented to frontline officers and soldiers who are working day and night to protect the borders and islands of the Fatherland.

The attraction of the prize

Up to this point, the total prize value has reached billions of VND, with many technical prizes: Best Gross, first - second - third in each group, Longest Drive, Nearest to the Pin, Nearest to the Line... Especially 2 Hole-in-One prizes worth over 7 billion VND including 2 VinFast VF9 cars (1.499 billion VND/car), Honma Beres 09 golf club set (1.8 billion VND), Ngoc Linh Tumorong ginseng wine bottle (2.3 billion VND) and Stay and Play combo package in Kunming - China (4 days 3 nights) worth 30.4 million VND/hole sponsored by golf tourism company Focus Group (total of 4 holes).