Red Mountain Golf Club: It's not difficult to see why this exciting and relatively new layout was named Red Mountain. It's harder to imagine how such a dramatically undulating landscape, where soft red rock and dense jungle are the principal ingredients, could be transformed into a challenging, yet playable layout.

Particularly on the closing stretch the elevation changes, red rocky cliffs and dense tropical vegetation combine to create some of the most spectacular holes in Thailand. A truly breathtaking panorama awaits at the back of the 16th green. The short par-3 17th is a dramatically plunging downhiller ... hitting a postage stamp in the jungle-filled depths below has never been more fun! The subsequent downhill par-5 requires strategic placement from tee-to-green, and can easily add double-figures to an otherwise respectable scorecard.

Prior to the magnificent closing six, the rest of the course contains its fair share of undulations, rocky outcrops, wonderful risk-reward holes and a liberal array of water hazards. To avoid your immensely scenic Red Mountain round turning into a rocky horror show, the advice is simple - carefully consult your caddie on club selection, take dead aim and trust your swing.

It's not often that such a great new course is created. Rarer still that it's the architect's first 18-hole design. Hats off to Jon Morrow for crafting what the club literature describes as "the most exciting golf course in Phuket" ....... perhaps "in Asia" might also apply.