Thailand Golf Holidays, Phuket Golf Packages, Hua Hin Golf Vacations

Mission Hills Phuket... Potentially Great Golf By The Sea

A Phuket golf vacation includes playing on some rounds in one of the world’s most beautiful locations and golfing on seaside courses should definitely an experience to savour, whether it’s a windy links course in Ireland or over the ocean golfing in Bali.

Golf in Phuket Thailand for most golfers entails heading straight for Blue Canyon or Red Mountain, both of which are inland tin mining courses. However, shouldn’t a seaside golf course be part of the Phuket golf experience?

For this, most expect the Nicklaus designed Mission Hills Phuket Golf Resort and Spa to fit the bill. Only ten minutes from Phuket International airport and around 40 minutes from Patong, the Phuket golf resort is located right on the banks of the Andaman Sea. In fact, the Mission Hills signature holes run right up to the coastline and literally play alongside the local fisherman with a few exotic birds as partners too!

Burpaha Golf Pattaya

Playing golf in Thailand is not just a sport, but can be a lot of entertainment too. There are none of those stuffy club secretaries wanting to see your accredited handicap card here. No, just turn up, give your clubs to the smiling door man and you are off.

I was invited to play at Burapha Golf Club with some tourists enjoying their golf vacation in Pattaya. When I arrived at Burapha I was surprised to see so few people on the Pattaya golf course. Of course every day in Thailand is a holiday, and so there are not too many Thai golfers during the slow golf season from April to October.

Shorts seemed to be the relaxed dress code of the day, both for men and women. Most of the golfers at Burapha were expatriates of golfers from overseas!  I was joined up with 2 other golfers on their first Pattaya golf holiday.

Burapha has 36 holes and you can play a combination of nine holes. Better players cover course B and D which was the venue used for the Thailand Open. We played course C and finished on course D.
I have to be honest that there are lot more ‘Wow’ factor golf courses in Thailand, however the course still offers a fair game for all levels. There are flat holes with wide fairways, and long par 4’s climbing up to the mountains with incredible views across the region.