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Map guides · Episode 8
Golf and marinas: where to play, where to moor
Thailand's map shows 146 golf courses, and 9 marinas whose operators advertise berths. Set against the developments we track, they draw two geographies: golf around Bangkok and along the east coast, boats on Phuket's east coast.
Survey of 20 October 2026 · asking prices, median per development
CriterionGolf: named courses of 5 ha or more on the OpenStreetMap map as of 20 October 2026, excluding driving ranges (practices) and small courses. Marinas: those whose operator advertises berths on its website.
Each dot is a development we track; its colour is its median asking price per square metre.
30,000 ฿/m²180,000 ฿/m² and above
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1 of 12 · The national map
Thai golf is played around Bangkok and on the east coast, not on the islands
From the air, Thai golf has a geography. The collaborative map records 308 “golf” objects in the country; 146 are actual courses, spread over 40 provinces. And they cluster: 33 in Greater Bangkok, 28 on the east coast between Chon Buri and Rayong, or 41.8% of the total. Chon Buri leads with 21 courses. Phuket has 5 on the map, and the rest of the episode lingers there; Koh Samui, 2.
Pattaya is ringed by golf courses, yet few people live next to one
Fly over Pattaya: the greens encircle it. Chon Buri has 21 courses, neighbouring Rayong 7, and 14 lie within 25 km of the heart of Pattaya's developments. Yet people do not live by the fairway: only 42 of the 792 developments we track are within 2 km of a course, or 5.3%. The median distance reaches 8.8 km, the longest of our six destinations.
In Hua Hin, golf arrived with the railway, and it has stayed in the heart of town
In Hua Hin, golf arrived by train. The Royal Hua Hin Golf Course opened its first nine holes in 1922, laid out by A. O. Robin, a railway engineer; the King inaugurated it in 1924, and the last nine holes were completed in 1928. Today its outline passes 46 m from the station. Nowhere else is golf this close to homes: 2.6 km at the median, and 4 courses within 10 km. By the sea, Racer Marina, 16.6 km to the south, advertises 80 berths.
Black Mountain, in the Hua Hin and Cha-am area: an uphill par-four facing the hillsPhoto: Baybay1901 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4 of 12 · Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai offers golf without the sea, right at the city's edge
The camera circles the Ping valley. Here golf is played without the sea, at the city's doorstep: within 25 km of our 814 developments, 10 courses, 3 of them within 10 km, including Chiang Mai Gymkhana and Star Dome. 27.0% of developments are within 2 km of a green, against 17.1% in Bangkok, and the median distance drops to 3.2 km. Relative to market size: 1.2 courses per 100 developments, against 0.4 in Bangkok.
In Phuket, golf grew out of the old tin mines, between lagoons and the Andaman Sea
Phuket plays its golf on old tin mines. At Bang Tao, Laguna Golf Phuket unrolls its 18 holes between the lagoons of an estate born on an abandoned mine; reworked by architect Paul Jansen, it reopened in 2015, 500 m from the Andaman Sea. Further north, Blue Canyon’s boundary runs 280 m from the airport: 2 courses of 18 holes designed by Yoshikazu Kato, the Canyon in 1991, the Lakes in 1999. The Canyon hosted the Johnnie Walker Classic 3 times; in 1998, Tiger Woods beat Ernie Els there in a playoff, and one of its holes has carried his name ever since. In the heart of the island, at Kathu, Red Mountain, opened in 2007, carves its 18 holes into the red cliffs of a former mine; its neighbour Loch Palm skirts Crystal Lake, some 19 hectares of water dug in the tin-mining days; Phuket Country Club, the elder, established in 1989, lines up 27 holes. On the north-east coast, Mission Hills, a Jack Nicklaus design opened in 2004, lays its 18 holes at the water’s edge: you play facing the sea. In all, 6 clubs and 135 holes on the island. And a 48 min drive from the airport, in Phang Nga, Aquella, opened in 2021, stretches its 18 holes along 2.5 km of private beach.
Laguna Golf Phuket, Bang Tao: water, fairway and the island’s hillsPhoto: Anton Zelenov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
6 of 12 · Phuket, by the greens
At Laguna, you live on the edge of the green, and the square metre asks well above the island’s median
At Bang Tao, day breaks around 06:45 in January, and the thermometer climbs to 33 °C in the afternoon: the best round is played early, in the cool of the morning, before lunch at the clubhouse. From November to April, the island receives only 24% of its yearly rain; February counts just 2.2 rainy days, and January offers 9 hours of sunshine a day. This is the season of the greens, and Laguna is where people live on them. 103 developments we track lie within 1 km of the course, 6 of them inside its very boundary; their median asking price is THB 119,316/m² (€3,109), 48% above the island’s median of THB 80,868 (€2,107). The 35 residences built by the estate’s own developers, Laguna Property and Banyan Group Residences, rise to THB 187,907 (€4,897). In the centre of the island, the tone changes: the 26 developments within 1 km of Red Mountain ask THB 59,242 (€1,544). At Blue Canyon, there are 8, 1 of them inside the estate.
Estate residences (Laguna Property, Banyan Group Residences)
“Near the golf course”: in descriptions, one promise in two checks out
“Near the golf course”: the phrase appears in 335 listings in our database. For 54, it is only a simulator, a putting green or a mini-golf; the other 281 promise a real course. We measured the distance. 147 keep their word, within 2 km, or 52.3%; 30 are more than 5 km away, 15 of them more than 10 km. The median is 1.9 km. The development's name is a better clue: the 20 developments with “golf” in their name are all within 2 km of a course, 15 within 500 m. In Phuket, 69% of listings promising golf are within 2 km of a course, against 25% of the whole island; in Hua Hin the phrase distinguishes almost nothing, 32% against 29%.
Next to a course, the square metre costs more in Hua Hin and Phuket, but not in Bangkok
By the green, price does not follow the same slope everywhere. In Hua Hin, the 27 priced developments within 500 m of a course ask THB 69,019 per m² (€1,799), 53% more than the other 386, at THB 45,176 (€1,177). In Phuket, the gap is 20%: THB 96,118 (€2,505) for 67 developments, against THB 80,000 (€2,085). In Bangkok, it reverses: THB 68,909 (€1,796) for the 64 developments beside a course, against THB 73,674 (€1,920) elsewhere, 6% less.
Follow Phuket's east coast, facing Phang Nga Bay: this is where the boats sleep. Royal Phuket Marina and Phuket Boat Lagoon, neighbours in Ko Kaeo, then Ao Po Grand Marina and Phuket Yacht Haven further north: 4 marinas, 842 advertised berths. Around them, this is the island's cheapest coast: the 53 developments within 3 km ask THB 54,621 per m² (€1,423), 34% less than the other 1,235 priced developments, at THB 82,222 (€2,143). 42 of these 53 developments surround Boat Lagoon; 41 are villas.
Cast off. North-east of Phuket opens Phang Nga Bay, dotted with limestone tower-islands. Its national park was created on 29 April 1981 and covers 400 km²; the bay joined the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance on 14 August 2002. Ko Khao Phing Kan, “James Bond Island”, is only 21.1 km from Phuket Yacht Haven, 23.7 km from Ao Po Grand Marina and 36.9 km from Boat Lagoon.
Around Ocean Marina, the square metre costs more than in the rest of Pattaya
South of Pattaya, at Na Jomtien, masts crowd into Ocean Marina: 450 berths, the longest taking a 65 m boat. Around it, the square metre costs more: the 32 priced developments within 3 km ask THB 79,240 per m² (€2,065), 51% more than the other 829 priced developments in Pattaya and Sattahip, at THB 52,319 (€1,363). Of the 34 developments in this radius, 20 are condominiums and 30 are in Sattahip district.
You play often: Hua Hin puts the course closest, 2.6 km at the median, and 2.1 courses per 100 developments within 25 km. You want choice: Pattaya lines up 14 courses within 25 km, but 8.8 km away at the median. You sail: Phuket gathers 4 marinas and 842 advertised berths, around 5 courses. Koh Samui has 2 courses and 23 places tagged “marina” on the map, with no marina advertising berths. Chiang Mai lines up 10 courses within 25 km, without the sea. Bangkok has 16 within the same radius, for 3,765 developments.
City or coast, apartment or villa, to live there or to spend part of the year: three gestures are enough for your advisor to start from your project, not from a catalogue.
Prices are asking prices, surveyed on 20 October 2026 in our database. For each development we take the median price per square metre of its unsold units; for an area, the median of those medians, shown only from 20 developments upward. A unit is set aside as an outlier below 10,000 ฿/m², above 1,000,000 ฿/m², above 500,000 ฿/m² on less than 30 m² or with no known floor area, above 500 M ฿, or with less than 10 m² per bedroom. The off-plan share counts developments whose status is known. Distances are measured as the crow flies. Euros are converted at €1 = 38.374 ฿ (13 September 2026).
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