Pattaya

Championship Golf on the Gulf

Pattaya

Ninety minutes south-east of Bangkok, Pattaya pairs the long-time home of the Honda LPGA Thailand with one of the most dramatic settings in world golf — a course played beneath a golden Buddha carved into a limestone cliff.

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🇹🇭 Pattaya, Thailand

Siam Country Club — Old Course

Location
Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand
Opened
1970
Designer
Ichisuke Izumi (1970), renovated by Schmidt-Curley Design (2006–07)
Events
Honda LPGA Thailand
Rankings
4th best golf course in Thailand, top100golfcourses.com; 73rd best golf course in the world, Golf Digest (2018)

Siam Country Club's Old Course is the grande dame of Thai golf — laid out by Japanese architect Ichisuke Izumi and opened in 1970 as only the second golf course in the country. For its first three decades it was a mature, tree-lined parkland test; then in 2006 the American team of Lee Schmidt and Brian Curley was brought in for a renovation that kept Izumi's original routing intact but rebuilt the course to championship standard — new greenside bunker complexes, seashore paspalum fairways, and a selective thinning of the trees that let the breeze back in. It reopened in 2007 and has been the long-time home of the Honda LPGA Thailand, so visitors play greens that the best players in the world have faced in February sunshine. The caddie programme is among the best in Asia, with many caddies having walked these fairways for the better part of a decade, and the clubhouse and practice facilities are as good as anything in the region.

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Siam Country Club — Plantation

Location
Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand
Opened
2008
Designer
Schmidt-Curley Design
Events
LPGA Thailand (2009)
Rankings
14th best golf course in Thailand, top100golfcourses.com

The Plantation is Siam Country Club's modern counterpoint to the Old Course — twenty-seven holes opened in 2008 to a Schmidt-Curley design, laid out across land that was once a working tapioca and pineapple plantation. The three nines are named for that history: Sugar Cane, Tapioca and Pineapple, which combine into whichever eighteen the day calls for. Where the Old Course is mature, tree-lined and intimate, the Plantation is big and open — wide corridors, sweeping native grasses that turn rust-red in the dry season, vast sculpted bunker complexes and water in play across a good number of holes. It is also home to a triple green, believed to be the first in Asia. The scale makes it the more forgiving of the two off the tee and the more demanding once you are on the putting surface, and the variety of the three loops means you can play here on consecutive days and barely repeat yourself.

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Chee Chan Golf Resort

Location
Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand
Opened
2018
Designer
David Dale, Golfplan
Rankings
47th best golf course in Thailand, top100golfcourses.com; Best Golf Course in Thailand, World Golf Awards (2020)

Chee Chan Golf Resort opened in 2018 to a design by David Dale of Golfplan, and it has one of the most arresting settings in world golf. The course sits directly beneath Khao Chee Chan — Buddha Mountain — a limestone cliff into which a gold likeness of the Gautama Buddha, some 110 feet tall, has been laser-carved into the rock face. He is visible from very nearly every hole, which gives a round here an atmosphere no amount of architecture could manufacture. The golf itself is generous off the tee and more demanding on approach, playing to a par of 72 and stretching past 7,000 yards from the back tees, with broad fairways, big sweeping bunkering and generous green complexes set against the rock. The arrival experience is pure Thailand: fountains at the clubhouse entrance, a cold face towel the moment you step out of the car, and a staff who greet you in unison.

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