Navatanee Golf Course

22 Moo Navatanee Rd, Kwaeng Ramintra,

Khet Kannayao, Bangkok 10230

  • Office

    +66 (0)2 376 1818
  • Pro shop

    +66 (0)2 376 1031
  • Fax

    +66 (0)2 376 1685

About the course

  • The Course:

    18 holes. Tree-lined & open parkland. Relatively flat terrain.

  • Surroundings:

    Woodland.

  • Designer:

    Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Back
tees
Club
tees
Front
tees
Yards
6902
6315
5333
Par
72
72
72
SSS or slope
72.5
69.4
70.9

Location

Latitude:

13.802642

Longitude:

100.673936

How to get there:

20 km NE of Bangkok (Sukhumvit hotel area)

Take the Eastern Outer Ring Road (route 9) heading north from Bangkok. Exit onto the Seri Thai Road (route 3278) direction Bang Kapi. After 200 metres golf entrance is on your right.

Navatanee Golf Course

4-PLUS: Must play course - excellent standard; worthy of 4½ stars.

Est. 1973

Navatanee Golf Course: This pleasant and testing parkland layout was one of Robert Trent Jones Jr's earliest designs, built specifically for the 1975 World Cup of Golf. It took two years to turn what were then rice fields into Thailand's first international standard professional championship venue.

Navatanee's claim to the top spot in Thailand certainly held sway throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Nowadays such a claim is debatable - even following Trent Jones' 1997 modifications to the course. The current layout, which occupies relatively flat terrain, doesn't include overly pronounced earthmounding or fairway contouring, but the layout is still thoroughly absorbing and full of classic design features.

The best stretch at Navatanee starts with the short par-4 5th (the first water-defended hole), and then onto the very testing par-4 6th. Heavily bunker-defended greens are found at the good-length par-3 7th and short par-4 8th.

Closing out the front-nine is a fabulous water-hugging par-5. It doglegs right-to-left like Bay Hill's 6th, but with a good-width water channel crossing the fairway at halfway. The back-nine is also laced with many good holes, but can be something of an anti-climax after the closing front-nine stretch.

Hitting the putting surfaces here requires high-flighted shots into them; deepish bunkers protect the front of several greens. The fairway bunkers are as menacing as those greenside. Navatanee has much less water than on the average Bangkok course, quite surprising given its rice paddy origins.

Navatanee remains one of the country's top "trophy" courses, but more recent arrivals have challenged its supremacy as Thailand's No.1.

List of courses: Around Bangkok

Visitors

Who can play and when?

Visitors welcome on weekdays; very restricted on weekends.

Must book in advance.

Green fees

Visitor fee, 18-holes: weekdays 4,700 Baht; weekends 6,100 Baht; golf cart and caddie fee included.

Contact club for full details, discounts, packages, etc. [Last updated: 2021].

Other information

Non-metal spike facility. Golf carts compulsory for visiting golfers. Caddies used by all players. Pace of play is expected at no more than 4 hours for a four-ball.

Practice facilities

Good

Did you know?

Navatanee (sometimes written Nawathani) was Thailand's first world-class championship golf course to be built. The course opened for play in 1973 two years ahead of hosting the 1975 World Cup of Golf, won by the USA-team of Johnnie Miller and Lou Graham.

Navatanee loosely translates as "the place of Nava", Nava being a shorthand for the name of the club's founder, Sukum Navapan. The club prides itself on maintaining a brisk pace of play, so fourballs are expected round in no more than four hours - quite achievable with one cart and a minimum of one caddie per visiting golfer.

Where2Stay

  • Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit5-star

    250 Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok 10110

    +66 (0)2 649 8888

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    The 5-star Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit is an ideal hotel from which to enjoy all that Bangkok has to offer. It enjoys a prime location in the heart of the city, with easy access to the Skytrain, subway and Expressway. Bangkok's business, entertainment and shopping districts are all around.

    • Golf at this hotel:

      No

    • Golf within 10 km:

      No

    • Golf within 30 km:

      Best Ocean; Muang Keaw; Bangpoo; Green Valley; Lakewood; Thana City; Summit Windmill; Navatanee; Panya Indra. Other Where2Golf listed Around Bangkok courses are within 50 km.

  • Amari Don Muang Airport Hotel4-star

    333 Chert Wudthakas Road, Moo 10, Srikan, Don Muang, Bangkok 10210

    +66 (0)2566 1020

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    This comfortable 4-star hotel is located close to Bangkok's former international airport, Don Muang Airport. Its superior accommodation, restaurants and business and convention facilities, make it a popular choice with both business and leisure travellers.

    • Golf at this hotel:

      No

    • Golf within 10 km:

      No

    • Golf within 30 km:

      Bangkok GC; Navatanee; Panya Indra; Legacy; Windsor Park; Cascata; Lam Luk Ka; Alpine.

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