Flat is the default condition of Bangkok golf. The city sits on a river delta with roughly the topography of a billiard table, which is what makes Riverdale Golf Club worth knowing about: a course half an hour or so north of the centre where the tees sit high, the...
Thailand Golf Resorts
Siam Country Club Plantation Course (Pattaya)
Siam Country Club Plantation is the bold modern sibling at Thailand's most storied golf club — 27 holes of Schmidt-Curley drama draped over the hills behind Pattaya, with long views to the Gulf of Thailand and some of the deepest bunkering in the country. Where the...
Chiang Mai Gymkhana Club
Let's be clear about what the Chiang Mai Gymkhana Club is not: it is not a championship resort course, and it does not pretend to be. It is a nine-hole, par-36 parkland loop played across the grounds of a Victorian-era sports club founded in 1898 — the oldest sports...
Royal Chiang Mai Golf Resort
Royal Chiang Mai Golf Club & Resort is the designer-pedigree value play of the Chiang Mai golf scene: an 18-hole Peter Thomson layout from 1996, sitting in a mountain-ringed valley on the Chiang Mai–Phrao road north of the city. It is rarely the first course...
Palm Hills Golf Resort (Hua Hin)
Palm Hills Golf Resort & Country Club is the course you drive past first on the way into Hua Hin — it sits right on Phetkasem Road at the northern edge of town, about two kilometres from Hua Hin's little airport and ten minutes from the town centre. Opened in 1992...
Springfield Royal Country Club (Hua Hin)
Springfield Royal Country Club is the Hua Hin area's original big-name course: a 27-hole spread in Cha-Am, about half an hour north of town, whose first 18 holes were designed by Jack Nicklaus and opened in 1993 — years before Black Mountain and the modern wave...
Mission Hills Phuket Golf Resort
Mission Hills Phuket Golf Resort is the island's great "what if". It has the only true seaside golf on Phuket — a Jack Nicklaus layout from 2004 on the northeast coast, with holes running beside the Andaman Sea and views out to the islands of Phang Nga Bay — and for...
Loch Palm Golf Club (Phuket)
Loch Palm is the other half of Phuket's best one-two punch: the calm, palm-lined valley course that shares an entrance road in Kathu with its ferocious sister, Red Mountain. Both are owned by MBK, both sit on old tin-mining ground, and they could hardly be less alike....
Bangna Navy Golf Course (Bangkok)
Bangna Navy Golf Course is one of the cheapest full rounds inside Bangkok's city limits, and it makes no apology for what it is: a flat, tree-shaded, nine-green layout run by the Royal Thai Navy since 1965, played twice around for 18 holes, with floodlights for...
Alpine Golf Resort Chiang Mai
When the Asian Tour brought a full-field professional event to northern Thailand, it chose this course — twice. Alpine Golf Resort Chiang Mai, 27 holes laid across a wooded valley southeast of the city, hosted the Chiangmai Golf Classic in 2013 and 2014 and remains...