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Thai Muang Beach Golf & Marina
Situated along the Andaman Coast, with beautiful mountains and wild forested hills as its backdrop, the impressive Thai Muang is one of Thailand’s few links’ style golf courses. It offers a fascinating challenge to high and low handicappers.
With its combination of a sandy shoreline studded with mature trees, lagoons, ponds, creeks and the sea itself, the site is impressive and the play challenging. Twelve holes feature water carries and water comes into play on another four holes. The undulating fairways are very often coupled with elevated greens that test the best of putters. You need to avoid the deep greenside bunkers to score well here.
The three finishing holes are most memorable, each of which is superb. It starts with the 16th, a reachable dogleg left Par 5, then is followed by the annoying little Par 3 17th (dubbed ‘the lady’), and finishes with the extremely difficult 18th (dubbed ‘the gem’). This 463 yard Par 4 plays along the side of a white sandy beach. Standing on the tee, you’re leaning into what is usually a two or three club wind. With out of bounds right and the Andaman Ocean left, the green seems like its miles away. For most players, this is a three shot to the green hole.
Thai Muang Beach Golf Club lies just over the bridge from Phuket Island, some 40 minutes drive from Phuket International Airport and a leisurely 75 scenic minutes from Patong Beach. While further ashore than the other Phuket Island golf courses, golfers chhosing to play at Thai Muang will be well rewarded for making the trek.
Thai Muang Beach Golf and Marina is closed for renovation until further notice.
Thai Muang Beach Golf Overview
Thai Muang Golf Course has dramatic holes and lush scenery accompany the only championship golf course located right by the sea in Phang Nga province, close to Phuket Island. Designed by Perry Dye, the 18 holes, Par 72 course, provides a fascinating test of skill for golfers at every level.
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Thai Muang Beach Golf and Marina is closed for renovation until further notice.
Thai Muang Beach Golf & Marina Facilities
The clubhouse, built of stone and timber in sympathy with the surroundings, has locker rooms that rival Phuket’s best and a pro shop. There are dining facilities, a driving range and putting green, and coaching is available. The long, unspoiled beach is a stone’s throw away and the course is set in relaxed rural surroundings.
- Swimming Pool
- Driving Range
- Restaurant (Thai & International)
- Pro Shop
- Putting Green
- Lodge
Thai Muang Beach Golf and Marina is closed for renovation until further notice.
Thai Muang Beach Golf & Marina Course Guide
Hole 1
Par 4 HCP 15
After a gentle start, the hardest hole on the course takes shape on the first par 5. The fairway swerves right then left, with water on both sides off the tee, continuing to the green along the left side. Mounds complicate matters. The hole calls for tight targetting as the fairway narrows. The rough is grass of medium length — not thick, but enough to slow the clubhead.
Black 563 yards
Blue 563 yards
White 532 yards
Red 515 yardsHole 2
Par 4 HCP 13
The fairway meanders left on this par 4, with out-of-bounds left and mounds and trees to the right. There are more conventional bunkers mixed in with the mound-bunkers around the green.
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Par 4 HCP 5
A huge stretch of tee-to-green water lies left, behind cypress pines, with a zig-zag caddy track and mounds to the right of a fairly open fairway. The prevailing breeze off the sea carries balls towards the water. Around the tight green, there’s a winding bunker to the left.
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Par 5 HCP 1
After a gentle start, the hardest hole on the course takes shape on the first par 5. The fairway swerves right then left, with water on both sides off the tee, continuing to the green along the left side. Mounds complicate matters. The hole calls for tight targetting as the fairway narrows. The rough is grass of medium length — not thick, but enough to slow the clubhead.
Black 563 yards Blue 563 yardsWhite 532 yardsRed 515 yardsHole 5
Par 4 HCP 11
Mounds march across the fairway on this shortish par 4, with pines along the right and more mounds and water behind the green.
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Par 3 HCP 9
A tight par 3, with water and a bunker visible on the right and more water to the left. It’s a tiny green, with more water through the back, and a bunker and a couple of trees.
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Par 4 HCP 3
A drive across water off the tee marks the par 4 that is the third-hardest hole. The fairway curls right, with cypress pines and mounds to the left and water on the right. Around the bend, a tree and a small mound block the path home. It’s a fairly large green, but all that can be seen is the top of the flag.
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Par 3 HCP 17
Water cuts in and gobbles up most of the fairway from the left on this par 3. The shot is over water, with tall mounds behind the green.
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Par 5 HCP 7
Two turns to the left are required on this par 5. The first dogleg is heavily bunkered and water takes over where the sand ends. The trees on the right are out-of-bounds. Not a long par 5 but the two-level green calls for sharp control, with the top putting surface no more than 14 feet across.
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Par 4 HCP 6
The flag flutters enticingly in the distance on this par 4, with bunkers on both sides of the fairway and the sound of the sea being heard for the first time.
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Par 3 HCP 10
Water replaces most of the fairway on this longish par 3. Mounds dot the rear of the reasonably-sized green and continue along the right. There’s one large bunker directly over the water.
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Par 4 HCP 18
A par 4, easiest hole on the course. Ham-shaped water cuts in on the right, together with a long, snakey bunker. The fairway opens up to the left, with mounds and trees beyond.
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Par 5 HCP 2
A beautiful lily pond in the foregound belies the difficulty of this par 5, the second-hardest hole. Trees line both sides, with water to the left and trouble on the right.
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Par 4 HCP 8
Closer to the sea now, this par 4 doglegs left, with out-of-bounds lying left. It’s a pretty hole, with one of the biggest greens seen so far.
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Par 4 HCP 16
Water cuts the fairway diagonally, so firing long or short off the tee is the go. Mounds about eight feet tall lie to the right, beyond the water.
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Par 5 HCP 14
A par 5 that doglegs left, with bunkers in the foregound. Plenty of water on the right for those who try to find the open spaces.
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Par 3 HCP 12
A long green snakes in the distance — but first, this par 3 requires a shot across water. It’s a long walk around to the fairway but the view from the green is spectacular, with large lagoons stretching on both sides of the putting arena. With the wind off the sea, there’s never a guarantee of safety on this hole.
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Par 4 HCP 4
The fourth hardest hole, a par four, runs parallel to the long beach, heading straight home. Mounds and bunkers lie right, with one big fairway bunker on the left. There are also some rough-laden indentations near the green, of the kind that the Scots do so well.
Black 563 yards Blue 563 yardsWhite 532 yardsRed 515 yardsThai Muang Beach Golf and Marina is closed for renovation until further notice.
Thai Muang Beach Golf & Marina Scorecard
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out |
| HCP | 15 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 17 | 7 | - |
| Black | 405 | 363 | 448 | 612 | 302 | 158 | 415 | 156 | 524 | 3401 |
| Blue | 364 | 351 | 416 | 530 | 307 | 145 | 397 | 147 | 499 | 3156 |
| White | 340 | 338 | 382 | 503 | 304 | 114 | 373 | 140 | 450 | 2944 |
| Red | 292 | 283 | 343 | 478 | 275 | 75 | 360 | 114 | 387 | 2607 |
| Par | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 |
| Hole | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
| HCP | 6 | 10 | 18 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 4 | - | - |
| Black | 464 | 211 | 332 | 625 | 466 | 330 | 549 | 178 | 463 | 3618 | 7019 |
| Blue | 436 | 187 | 308 | 597 | 442 | 306 | 493 | 167 | 434 | 3370 | 6526 |
| White | 403 | 145 | 248 | 539 | 393 | 272 | 423 | 142 | 407 | 2970 | 5914 |
| Red | 307 | 126 | 217 | 443 | 345 | 201 | 347 | 135 | 307 | 2428 | 5035 |
| Par | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
Thai Muang Beach Golf and Marina is closed for renovation until further notice.
- Designer:Mr. Pete Dye
- Opened:1993
- Holes:18
- Par:72
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