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Try it free →Two things decide where a golfer should live in Thailand, and neither of them is the number of courses. The first is weather, because a course you cannot play in September is not a course you own. The second is whether the club will tell you what it charges — and most will not. Eight clubs across the five cities were opened on their own websites for this page in September 2026; three published a rate a reader could act on, and five published none at all. Everything below is from the club’s own site or from Thailand’s thirty-year climate normals, and where the answer was not there, this page says so.
Where the courses actually are
Thai golf marketing attaches courses to the nearest famous town rather than to their address, and for someone choosing where to live that matters more than it does for a holiday. Three of the eight clubs below are in a different province from the city they are sold under. The column that matters most is the last one.
| Club | Sold as | Where it actually is | Course & designer | Does the club publish a rate? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mountain Golf Club | Hua Hin | Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan | 18 holes, plus a published stay-and-play package | Yes — green fee 2,500 THB / 18 holes, caddie 350, golf cart 750 (compulsory), club rental 1,500, umbrella 100. Stay & Play from 2,995 THB per night. |
| Springfield Royal Country Club | Marketed as Hua Hin | Sam Phraya, Cha-am, Phetchaburi 76210 — a different province from Hua Hin | 27 holes, Jack Nicklaus design | No — the club's own golf page carries no rate and directs enquiries to 032-709-256. |
| Siam Country Club (Old, Plantation, Waterside, Rolling Hills) | Pattaya | Pattaya, Chonburi — four 18-hole courses, plus a fifth in Bangkok opened 2022 | Old Course 1971 (I. Izumi); Plantation 2008 and Rolling Hills 2020 (Schmidt-Curley); Waterside 2014 (IMG Golf Course Design) | No — the club states the Old Course has hosted the Honda LPGA Thailand multiple times, but publishes no green fee, caddie or cart rate. |
| Laem Chabang International Country Club | Marketed as Pattaya | 106/8 Moo 4, Beung, Si Racha, Chonburi 20230 — Si Racha, not Pattaya | 27 holes across three nines, Jack Nicklaus Signature Design, 700 acres | No rate published on the club's own site. |
| Blue Canyon Country Club (Canyon, Lakes) | Phuket | 165 Moo 1, Thepkasattri Road, Thalang, Phuket 83110 | Canyon Course 1991 and Lakes Course 1999, both Yoshikazu Kato. Canyon is par 72, 7,244 yards off the black tees | No — the club publishes its tournament history and its event calendar, but no green fee. |
| Thai Country Club | Marketed as Bangkok | 88 Moo 1, Bangna-Trat Km. 35.5, Tambon Phimpha, Bang Pakong, Chachoengsao 24130 — another province | 18 holes | Yes — visitor green fee 5,100 THB weekday low season, 6,000 weekday high season, 6,100 weekend/holiday low season and 7,500 weekend/holiday high season, the last two marked afternoon only. |
| Alpine Golf Club | Marketed as Bangkok | 99 M.9 Bangkhan-Sathaneevithayu Road, Klong 5, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani 12120 — north of the city | 18 holes | No rate published on the club's own site. |
| Chiangmai Highlands Golf and Spa Resort | Chiang Mai | Mae On, Chiang Mai | 18 holes | Partly — caddie 400 THB per round, compulsory and payable in cash; cart 750 THB per round, one player per cart, and the caddie drives; customary caddie tip stated as 400 THB upwards. The green-fee table itself is published only as an image and could not be read. |
Every rate and address in this table was read off the club’s own website on 8 September 2026 and is quoted as that club states it. Rates change without notice and seasons are defined by each club, not by a national calendar — confirm before you travel.
A green fee is not what a round costs
A Thai green fee is one of four charges. Chiangmai Highlands is unusually direct about this on its own rate page: the caddie fee of 400 baht per round is compulsory and must be paid in cash, the cart is 750 baht per round for one player with the caddie driving, and it puts the customary tip at 400 baht upwards for eighteen holes. Black Mountain lists the same structure at Hua Hin prices — 2,500 baht for the green fee, 350 for the caddie, 750 for a cart it marks compulsory, and 1,500 if you need clubs. A visitor arriving at Black Mountain with their own clubs is therefore looking at roughly 3,600 baht before a tip, not 2,500.
At the top of the market, Thai Country Club publishes visitor green fees of 5,100 baht on a low-season weekday, 6,000 on a high-season weekday, 6,100 at weekends and holidays in low season and 7,500 at weekends and holidays in high season — and the two weekend rates are marked afternoon only, which is a real constraint in a country where the sensible tee time is early. The club’s page does not state a caddie or cart charge, so those are on top of the figures above by an amount this page cannot confirm.
The five clubs that publish nothing — Siam Country Club, Blue Canyon, Laem Chabang, Springfield and Alpine — are the ones where you will find the most confident prices online, all of them from tee-time resellers rather than from the club. Those are package prices, they move with season and volume, and they are not what the club would charge you at the counter. Treat a quoted figure for those five as an offer from that seller and nothing more.
Thirty years of rain, five golf cities
These are the WMO Climatological Standard Normals for 1991–2020, from the station data sheets Thailand submitted for that period. They are averages over thirty years, not a forecast, and each one describes the named station rather than the whole city. They are also the only figures on this page that settle an argument outright.
| City | WMO station | Rain per year | Rain days | Wettest month | Driest month | Sunshine hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hua Hin | Hua Hin · 48475 | 935.9 mm | 72.9 | Oct · 250.4 mm | Dec · 11.9 mm | 2221.4 |
| Pattaya | Phatthaya · 48461 | 1105.8 mm | 82.2 | Oct · 224.5 mm | Dec · 11.7 mm | not reported |
| Chiang Mai | Chiang Mai · 48327 | 1139.2 mm | 91.6 | Aug · 223.3 mm | Feb · 9.6 mm | 2436.3 |
| Bangkok | Bangkok Metropolis · 48455 | 1702.2 mm | 105.3 | Sep · 335.9 mm | Dec · 11.6 mm | 2212.2 |
| Phuket | Phuket · 48564 | 2271.5 mm | 145.9 | Sep · 350.4 mm | Feb · 24.0 mm | not reported |
Hua Hin records 72.9 rain days a year and Phuket 145.9 — almost exactly double. Over a year of playing twice a week, that difference is worth more than any ranking of course quality, and it is the reason Thailand’s densest concentration of golf-and-housing developments grew up on the upper Gulf coast rather than on the Andaman side. Bangkok sits in the middle on rainfall but has the least sunshine of the three stations that report it, at 2,212.2 hours. If the weather is the deciding factor rather than the golf, the wider side-by-side comparison of Thai cities runs the same normals across twelve stations.
Chiang Mai’s best golfing months are its worst air
Chiang Mai has the most sunshine of the five — 2,436.3 hours a year — and a February normal of 9.6 mm, which on paper is close to a perfect golf month. The catch is that the same absence of rain is what lets the haze sit. Thailand’s 24-hour ambient standard for PM2.5 is 37.5 micrograms per cubic metre, and in its own 2025 haze-season briefing the Pollution Control Department lists days over that standard by region for 2024: North 129, Northeast 113, Central 101, Bangkok and vicinity 97, West 84. That briefing gives no figure for Chiang Mai on its own, so none is printed here. A golfer choosing the north should plan for a season that closes rather than a season that rains, and read air quality in Thailand before committing to a lease that runs through it.
The verdict on each
Hua Hin · Driest of the five, and the deepest golf-property market
Hua Hin wins on the one variable a golfer cannot buy: weather. Its WMO station records 935.9 mm of rain a year across 72.9 rain days — half Phuket's 145.9 rain days — and 2,221.4 hours of sunshine, so more of the year is playable than anywhere else on this list. It is also the only town of the five where the golf and the housing were built as one product: Black Mountain sells a stay-and-play package from its own front page, and residential fairway lots are a normal part of the local stock rather than a novelty. The trade-off is reach. Several courses marketed as Hua Hin are in Cha-am, in a different province, and the town has no international airport of its own.
Pattaya · The largest cluster of championship courses in the country
Pattaya is where the concentration is. Siam Country Club alone runs four 18-hole courses in the town — the Old Course of 1971, Plantation, Waterside and Rolling Hills — and the club states on its own site that the Old Course has hosted the Honda LPGA Thailand more than once. Laem Chabang International Country Club adds 27 Jack Nicklaus Signature holes half an hour north. Neither club publishes a green fee on its own website, which is the single most useful thing to know before you plan a trip here: you are quoting from a package, not from a rate card, and the number you are given depends entirely on who you ask.
Phuket · Tournament pedigree, and the wettest weather of the five
Phuket has the strongest single tournament record in Thailand. Blue Canyon Country Club, in Thalang, states on its own course page that the Canyon Course is the first course ever to have hosted the Johnnie Walker Classic three times — 1994, 1998 and 2007 — alongside the Honda Invitational, the BMW International World Final and the Thailand Open. The Canyon Course is a Yoshikazu Kato design from 1991, par 72, 7,244 yards from the black tees. What the island cannot fix is rainfall: 2,271.5 mm a year over 145.9 rain days, the wettest of the five by a wide margin, concentrated in a May-to-October monsoon that peaks at 350.4 mm in September.
Bangkok · The clubs publish their rates, but few are inside Bangkok
Bangkok is the one place on this list where a marquee club prints its visitor rates in public: Thai Country Club publishes 5,100 baht on a low-season weekday rising to 7,500 baht on a high-season weekend or holiday, and the weekend rates are marked afternoon only. It is also the clearest case of a city taking credit for courses it does not contain. Thai Country Club's registered address is in Bang Pakong district, Chachoengsao — 35.5 km out along the Bangna-Trat road, in another province — and Alpine Golf Club sits in Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, in the opposite direction. Golf here is a drive, and the drive is the thing people underestimate.
Chiang Mai · The most sunshine and the worst air, in the same three months
Chiang Mai records the most sunshine of any of the five stations that report it — 2,436.3 hours a year — and its driest month, February at 9.6 mm, is close to rainless. Those are also the months when there is no rain to clear the air: the Pollution Control Department counts 129 days over Thailand's 24-hour PM2.5 standard in the North in 2024, more than any other region. The golf is cheaper here and Chiangmai Highlands publishes an unusually candid rate card, but the calendar has a hole in it that no other city on this list has, and it falls in what would otherwise be the best golfing weather of the year.
What this page could not confirm
- No membership prices appear anywhere on this page. Not one of the eight clubs publishes a joining fee, an annual subscription or a transfer condition on its own website. An earlier version of this page carried a Bangkok membership range of roughly 300,000 to 1,500,000 baht; no club source could be found for it and it has been removed rather than re-cited.
- Chiangmai Highlands’ green fee. The club publishes its caddie and cart charges as text but its green-fee table only as an image file, which cannot be read reliably. The caddie and cart figures above are quoted; the green fee is not.
- Caddie and cart at Thai Country Club. The club publishes visitor green fees but no caddie or cart rate, so the true cost of a round there is higher than the printed number by an amount this page does not know.
- Banyan Golf Club now trades as Pineapple Valley Golf Club. The rename is consistent across every listing checked, but the club’s own website refused an automated request, so it is stated here as a name change to search under rather than confirmed from the operator. It is not counted among the eight clubs checked directly.
- Course counts per city are not stated. No official register of Thai golf courses was found, and a count assembled from booking portals is a count of listings rather than of courses. The named clubs above are ones whose own websites were opened.
- Whether you may be paid to coach. Playing is recreation; being paid to teach, coach or caddie is a separate question of Thai employment law that this page does not answer. See work permits in Thailand.
Golf, visas and living near the course
Golf is not a visa category. Retirees and long-stay residents normally arrive on the retirement (Non-Immigrant O/O-A) route or the ten-year LTR visa, and the route you qualify for constrains the city far more than the courses do — start at the Thailand visa routes index. On the property side, what a foreign buyer may own rather than lease is set by law: the BAANLYY calculators and tools cover the foreign-ownership arithmetic, homes and condos shows the stock in each of these five cities, and the building profiles tell you who built a development and when before you view it. For the game itself rather than the address, golf in Thailand for residents covers etiquette, societies and how club play works day to day, and Explore Thailand is the wider index.
Frequently asked questions
Which Thailand city is best for golf?
It depends which variable you cannot compromise on. Hua Hin has the best weather of the five by a clear margin — 935.9 mm of rain a year over 72.9 rain days, against Phuket's 2,271.5 mm over 145.9 days — and the deepest supply of housing built onto fairways. Pattaya has the largest cluster of championship courses, with four Siam Country Club layouts in one town. Phuket has the strongest tournament record, at Blue Canyon. Bangkok has the clubs that actually publish their prices. Chiang Mai is the cheapest, with the most annual sunshine of the five, but loses February to April to haze.
How much does a round of golf cost in Thailand?
The honest answer is that most Thai clubs do not publish a price. Of eight clubs checked on their own websites in September 2026, three published a rate. Black Mountain in Hua Hin lists 2,500 baht for 18 holes, plus a compulsory 750-baht cart, a 350-baht caddie and 1,500 baht for club rental — about 3,600 baht before rental or a tip. Thai Country Club near Bangkok lists 5,100 baht on a low-season weekday and 7,500 on a high-season weekend, afternoon tee times only. Chiangmai Highlands publishes its caddie fee of 400 baht and its 750-baht cart but puts the green fee itself in an image. Siam Country Club, Blue Canyon, Laem Chabang, Springfield and Alpine publish nothing at all, so any figure you see for those is a reseller's package price, not the club's.
Is a caddie compulsory on a Thai golf course?
At the clubs that state a policy, yes. Chiangmai Highlands says on its own rate page that the caddie fee of 400 baht per round is compulsory and must be paid in cash, and that the cart at 750 baht carries one player with the caddie driving; it puts the customary tip at 400 baht upwards for 18 holes. Black Mountain lists the caddie and a compulsory cart as separate line items alongside the green fee. Budget for green fee, caddie, cart and tip as four charges rather than one, because that is how the bill arrives.
Where can I live on a golf course in Thailand?
Hua Hin is the market where fairway housing is ordinary rather than exceptional, and it is also the driest of the five cities, which is why the two things developed together. Phuket has resort-linked golf property around Thalang. In Bangkok, Pattaya and Chiang Mai the golf is something you drive to: Thai Country Club is 35.5 km out of Bangkok in Chachoengsao province and Alpine Golf Club is in Pathum Thani, so proximity to a course and proximity to the city are two different searches.
When is the best time of year to play golf in Thailand?
November to February is the reliable window nationally, but the five cities diverge more than that suggests. Hua Hin's driest month is December at 11.9 mm and its wettest is October at 250.4 mm. Phuket peaks at 350.4 mm in September and is at its driest in February. Chiang Mai's February normal is 9.6 mm — almost no rain — but that dry air is also the haze season, with the North recording 129 days over the national PM2.5 standard in 2024.
Sources & References
- WMO Climatological Standard Normals 1991–2020 — Thailand station data sheets (NCEI Accession 0253808)
- Air Quality Situation and Measures for Haze Prevention and Mitigation in 2025 — Pollution Control Department briefing (PM2.5 24-hour standard 37.5 µg/m³; days over standard by region, 2024)
- Pollution Control Department (Air4Thai), Thailand
- Tourism Authority of Thailand
- Rates — Black Mountain Golf Club, Hua Hin
- Green fee — Thai Country Club, Bang Pakong, Chachoengsao
- Rates — Chiangmai Highlands Golf and Spa Resort
- The Canyon Course — Blue Canyon Country Club, Thalang, Phuket
- Courses — Siam Country Club, Pattaya
- Laem Chabang International Country Club, Si Racha, Chonburi
- Golf — Springfield Royal Country Club, Cha-am, Phetchaburi
- Alpine Golf Club, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani
Club rates and addresses are quoted from each club's own website, read on 8 September 2026, and are not booking-portal or reseller prices. Climate figures are WMO Climatological Standard Normals 1991-2020 for the named station and are thirty-year averages, not forecasts. Green fees, caddie and cart charges, seasons and course conditions change without notice — confirm current details with the club before you travel or commit. BAANLYY never takes paid placement in editorial content.
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Last updated 8 September 2026 · Last reviewed 8 September 2026
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