Golf Courses
Blue Canyon – The Canyon Course
The Canyon Course ranks as one of the most distinguished and prestigious championship golf courses in Asia.
Carved into lush landscape surrounded by freshwater lakes and in harmony with the earth, the Canon Course brilliantly features natural hazards, towering trees, multiple tees, rolling fairways, long carries, narrow landing areas and well guarded slick greens.
With a distance of 6,664 yards from the blue tees, the course has a mix of narrow tree lined fairways requiring accurate tee shots and a number of dog legs that demand precise shot making combined with a selection of demanding Par 3’s.
Blue Canyon – The Lakes Course
The Lakes Course is a mixture of water-filled canyons created by open cast mining with its natural land flow left relatively unchanged. Its front 9 holes run through a landscape of lakes and natural canyons, whilst the back 9 weaves around scenic lakes and stands of rubber trees.
From the championship tees, this is a 7,129-yard course capable of challenging the best players in the world. With a range of five sets of tees to choose from, even the average player can enjoy a course with wide fairways and large greens.
Loch Palm Golf Club
Loch Palm is an 18 hole, par 72 golf course located adjacent to and 15 minutes from Patong, the most popular beach in Phuket and 45 minutes from the Island’s International Airport.
Nestled below a panoramic range of peaks, the layout surrounds the largest lake of any golf course in Phuket, Crystal Lake.The word “Palm” in the course name comes from the thousands of Palm trees planted throughout the course. For golfers and those that love nature and the outdoors it provides a calming, relaxing environment that is also pleasant to the eye The course stretches for 6,434 yards from the Championship tees and has emerged from its make-over as an elegant green essay in modern course design.
Red Mountain Golf Club
Winding its way through a truly dramatic 1400 rai former tin mine site in the heart of Phuket, Red Mountain is surely one of Asia’s most exciting new courses. The course has been cleverly routed to take advantage of a huge variety of landforms and dizzying elevation changes.
Phuket Country Club
Established in 1989, Phuket Country Club was the first golf course on Phuket and the first in Southern Thailand of international standard and has hosted many national tournaments. The club’s ‘Old Course’, an 18 hole, par 72 course, is a firm favorite for the high handicappers, offering a challenging but rewarding game and some of the best golf they have ever played. Despite this, the course still manages to offer a comfortable challenge for the more experienced player when teeing off from the Championship tees over a tough but fun 6,484 yards.
Laguna Phuket Golf Club
Formerly known as the Banyan Tree Golf Club, Laguna Phuket Golf Club has recently transformed itself with renovation, redesign and reconstruction. Centrally located on the West coast, Laguna is situated both 25 minutes from Phuket International Airport and Phuket Town. Imaginative landscaping, including two waterfalls has added to the already scenic location of the course which is set within the Laguna Phuket Resort.
The greens have all been rebuilt and reshaped with new green surrounds making short game play more imaginative and interesting.
Fairway mounding has made shot making more creative and the maturing trees have now closed in many of the holes, giving a woodland look and feel to many of the holes. More water has been brought into play and along with strategically added bunkers, accurate tee shots are now forced on golfers of all levels.
Mission Hills Golf Resort
Measuring 6,806 yard from the back tees, the golf course is fulfilled with the best selected grass, Paspalum Sea Isle 1 for fairways and Paspalum Sea Isle 2000 for greens. One island two sharing greens, one hole two greens and beach bunkers are outstanding featured to challenge even the most conservative golfers