Thai Muang Beach Golf & Marina

157/12 Moo 9, Limdul Rd,

Thai Muang, Phang Nga 82120

Office
+66 (0)76 571 533 - 4
Fax
+66 (0)76 571 214

About the course

The Course:

18 holes. Open parkland. Gently undulating terrain - easy to walk.
Surroundings:

Rural countryside and seaside.
Designer:

Perry Dye

Back
tees

Club
tees

Front
tees

Yards

7019

5950

4987

Par

SSS or slope

Location

Latitude:

8.387129

Longitude:

98.253908

How to get there:

33 km N of Phuket airport

From Phuket island take route 402 and then route 4, heading north, direction Thai Muang. In Thai Muang turn left, following signs to golf and beach.

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Thai Muang

Thai Muang Beach Golf & Marina

Est. 1993

Thai Muang Beach Golf & Marina: GOLF COURSE WAS CLOSED IN 2011, on a permanent basis.

[Original Where2Golf description]: Here at Thai Muang, which sits just above Phuket, Perry Dye has crafted an intriguing golf course. Laid out on essentially flat and relatively open terrain alongside the majestic Andaman Sea, the layout contains many of the Dye-family's characteristic hallmarks. You may have to wait until the 17th and 18th holes for full-on views of the ocean, but prior to that the course serves up many challenging and entertaining holes.

The plentiful and varied array of bunkering will potentially play its part in proceedings, not least with several large sandy waste areas flanking the fairways. Dye has sculpted two wonderful par-3s (at 8 and 11), where small pot bunkers nestle in extravagant earthmounding, creating something of a grassy lunar landscape. At the 8th the bunkers are grass, on the 11th they are sand, and in both cases they are railway sleepered. It is rumoured there are more railway sleepers here than on the entire Singapore-Bangkok railroad!

Most Dye-designs are incomplete without water, and sure enough ponds and small lakes threaten on many occasions. At the long par-4 7th, a meagre sliver of fairway provides little comfort when weighed up against the wide and threatening water hazard that sits alongside it.

With a raft of design features incorporated into this always challenging layout, one hopes the renovation of Thai Muang will bring it back to its original "must play" status for golf visitors to Phuket.

List of courses: Phuket, Thailand

Visitors

Who can play and when?

Course closed in 2011. Before closure, visitors were welcome. Unlikely course will reopen.

Green fees

Contact club, if course reopens for play ... which seems unlikely.

Other information

Non-metal spike facility. Caddies used by all players.

Practice facilities

Good

Did you know?

Thai Muang was the only golf course in Thailand played alongside the Andaman Sea, an area of sea bounded by Burma and Thailand to the north and east, Malaysia and Sumatra to the south, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the west. Beyond the Andaman and Nicobar Islands lies the Indian Ocean.

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