Da Nang Golf Trip from India: Direct Flights, E-Visa and Courses With No Membership Needed

Last updated: August 2026

Ask a golfer in Delhi or Mumbai what the hardest part of playing a good course is, and the answer usually is not the golf. It is getting on. The best clubs in India run on membership, and membership runs on waiting lists measured in decades. Da Nang works the other way round: every championship course here takes a booking from a visitor, no member required, no introduction needed. That, more than the flight time, is why Indian groups keep coming back.

How do you get from India to Da Nang?

Vietjet runs the direct routes. Delhi to Da Nang is the main one, Ahmedabad to Da Nang opened in late 2024, and Vietjet also operates Da Nang services to Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Flying time is in the region of five hours, which puts Central Vietnam closer to Delhi than London is to Dubai.

If your city is not on a direct route, the practical option is Vietjet or Vietnam Airlines into Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City and a short domestic hop up to Da Nang. Adds a couple of hours, nothing worse.

Schedules on the newer routes do change with the season, so check the current timetable when you book rather than assuming the frequency you saw last year still holds. This is a growing route network, not a fixed one.

Do Indian passport holders need a visa for Vietnam?

Yes. This is the one point worth being blunt about, because a lot of destination marketing quietly skips it. Indian citizens are not on Vietnam’s visa exemption list, so you need an e-visa before you fly. There is no visa on arrival to fall back on for a golf trip.

The process itself is undramatic. Apply online at the government portal, USD 25 for single entry or USD 50 for multiple, valid up to 90 days, and processing usually takes around three working days. Passport needs six months’ validity and two blank pages. Apply two or three weeks out rather than the week before and it is a non-issue.

One thing that causes confusion: Phu Quoc island has a separate 30-day visa-free arrangement, but it only applies if you fly there directly and stay on the island. It does not cover Da Nang. If someone in your group has read about visa-free Vietnam, that is the rule they are thinking of. Our how the Vietnam e-visa application actually works guide walks through the form and the common rejection reasons.

Why do Indian golfers end up choosing Da Nang?

Because you can actually get a tee time.

Golf in India, at the level most travelling golfers want to play, runs through private clubs. Delhi Golf Club is the clearest example: its membership categories carry backlogs stretching back to the 1970s and 1980s, waiting periods commonly described in decades, and non-members generally need a member present to play. Bombay Presidency and the other established clubs operate on similar lines. None of that is a criticism, it is simply how the system evolved. But it means a group of four friends who want three good rounds in a row has a logistics problem before it has a golf problem.

Da Nang has no such structure. Ba Na Hills, Hoiana Shores, Montgomerie Links and both BRG courses are resort courses built for visiting play. You book, you turn up, you play. Our team can hold four consecutive tee times at four different championship courses in a single week, which is a sentence that does not really translate into the Indian club system.

The courses themselves justify the trip too. Hoiana Shores is a genuine links laid against the sea, Ba Na Hills sits at the foot of the mountain with a Luke Donald layout, and BRG gives you a Norman links and a Nicklaus target course on one site. Caddie and shared buggy sit inside the green fee at all of them, which is a different cost structure from what most Indian golfers are used to paying separately.

What about food, and travelling as a large group?

Two questions that come up in almost every enquiry from India, so let’s take them properly rather than in passing.

On food: Da Nang has become noticeably better equipped for Indian visitors over the last few years, largely off the back of the wedding and corporate-event traffic the city now handles. Indian restaurants exist in the city and vegetarian options are easier to find than they were. What we will not do is promise that a particular restaurant meets Jain or strict pure-veg standards, because that depends on kitchen practice and it changes. What we do instead is ask about dietary requirements at booking and arrange meals around what the group actually needs, including at the clubhouses.

On group size: Indian golf trips tend to be bigger than the four-ball. Extended family, a company outing, a group of friends who all decided to come. Consecutive tee times for multiple flights need to be blocked well ahead, especially in the October to March peak, and that is straightforward when it is arranged early and awkward when it is left late. Group bookings are arranged on request, and the earlier the dates are fixed the more the itinerary can be built around your group rather than around whatever slots are left.

How long should the trip be?

Four days, three nights is the natural shape for a five-hour flight. Three rounds, an afternoon in Hoi An, no wasted travel days at either end. That is where most short-haul groups land, and it is the basis of the four-day package most short-haul groups start with.

Stretch to five nights if the group includes non-golfers, or if you want to add Hue and the Laguna course on the way north. Beyond that you are into the territory of trips designed for long-haul markets, where the flight is long enough to justify eight or nine days. Golfers coming from other short-flight markets plan almost identically, and our guide for golfers flying in from the Philippines shows the same maths from a different starting point.

On timing: October through March is the comfortable season here and also the busy one, so tee sheets fill early. February and March, after Tet, are the pick of the year. May and June are the hottest months, worth knowing if your group would rather not play in serious heat.

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GoGolfVietnam is a golf tour operator based in Da Nang, handling tee times, transfers, hotels and group logistics for visiting golfers across Central Vietnam.