Chiang Mai Trip Overview
The Highlands course itself is exciting and challenging for a player of any level and offers the choice of 5 different tee boxes. Featuring Paspalum grassed fairways and Tiff-eagle grass greens ensure excellent hitting surfaces and faster more consistent greens year round. The bunker complexes are deep and punishing, but lend a nice contrast to frame each hole. In fact, the course features are over 130 fairway and greenside bunkers, most all with high front edges.
The greens at Chiangmai Highlands are undulated and typically run around ten on the Stimp-meter. The greens are firm yet receptive and hold well-struck iron shots. Many greens slope front to back which pressurizes golfers to pay more attention to strategy and utilize local caddie knowledge to putt in regulation.
Overall Chiang Mai Highlands is one of the best golf experiences in Thailand and a “must-play” as part of any Chiang Mai golf holiday.
Additional Info
Duration: 1 day
Starts: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Trip Category: Outdoor Activities >> Golf Tours & Tee Times
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What to Expect When Visiting Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
The Highlands course itself is exciting and challenging for a player of any level and offers the choice of 5 different tee boxes. Featuring Paspalum grassed fairways and Tiff-eagle grass greens ensure excellent hitting surfaces and faster more consistent greens year round. The bunker complexes are deep and punishing, but lend a nice contrast to frame each hole. In fact, the course features are over 130 fairway and greenside bunkers, most all with high front edges.
The greens at Chiangmai Highlands are undulated and typically run around ten on the Stimp-meter. The greens are firm yet receptive and hold well-struck iron shots. Many greens slope front to back which pressurizes golfers to pay more attention to strategy and utilize local caddie knowledge to putt in regulation.
Overall Chiang Mai Highlands is one of the best golf experiences in Thailand and a “must-play” as part of any Chiang Mai golf holiday.
Itinerary
The Chiang Mai Highlands Golf Club opened in 2005 and significantly added to the quality of Chiang Mai golf courses. The drive to Highlands from Chiang Mai leads through the stunning landscape, in an eastern direction passing rice fields and plantations into the mountains.
Lee Schmidt of Schmidt-Curley Design from the USA and the same designer as Mission Hills, Amata Spring, and Siam CC was the course’s mastermind. After only two years of operation, Chiangmai Highlands catapulted onto the international golf scene as one of the best golf experiences in Asia. Since then Chiangmai Highlands has won many prestigious awards. In 2007, Chiang Mai Highlands Golf & Spa Resort was voted #3 for ‘Best New Golf Course in Asia’ by Asian Golf Monthly. In 2013, the same publication awarded Chiang Mai Highlands as the ‘Best Value for Money Golf Course in Asia” and the “Best Golf Resort in Asia” followed in 2015.
