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Ballyshear Golf Links

Holes 18 | Par 72 | Length 6442 m / 7045 y | Type Links-style | Architect Gil Hanse
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It might lie just east of Bangkok but tee it up at Ballyshear Golf Links and there’s a whole world of golf coming your way.

Gil Hanse, one of the biggest names in golf course design, designed Ballyshear as a homage to America’s The Lido Golf Club, which closed during World War II and has since acquired the status of a golfing Camelot among those who love great courses.

 

Why? Because The Lido was designed by two architectural greats of its own era; C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor. They based each of its 18 holes on a landmark hole somewhere else in golf’s universe. Now Hanse has repeated the trick in south Thailand.

North Berwick’s Redan hole, for example, with its fiendishly tilted green designed to repel all tee shots, is replicated in Ballyshear’s 16th. The well-guarded Eden Hole at St Andrews shows up in the 3rd, while the green-bisecting gully that characterizes so-called “Biarritz holes” (named after the French course on which the feature first appeared) is incorporated in the 8th. Not everyone will welcome the Alps layout made famous by the 17th at Prestwick, calling as it does for a blind approach shot, but it’s immortalized once more in Ballyshear’s 10th.

And so it goes on, the challenge never more daunting than at the 606-yard 4th, where two fairways sit amid water and sandy waste. You can play safe to the larger fairway or trust your club and aim at the smaller one to shorten the hole considerably.

For all that these are proven hole layouts, the course is a bold step and a world away from most Thai courses. Angular greens and bunkers and the vast splashes of sand give Ballyshear an unmissable ‘throwback’ look.

By contrast, the understated clubhouse is a modern design and will eventually be joined by a hotel and state-of-the-art practice area.

 

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8600 8600 1000 THB Ballyshear Golf Links 4 3

It might lie just east of Bangkok but tee it up at Ballyshear Golf Links and there’s a whole world of golf coming your way.

Gil Hanse, one of the biggest names in golf course design, designed Ballyshear as a homage to America’s The Lido Golf Club, which closed during World War II and has since acquired the status of a golfing Camelot among those who love great courses.

 

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Course rating

  • Condition 3.7
  • Facilities 4.3
  • Pace of play 4.3
  • Service 4
  • Overall 4
  • Review Score 4.1
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Course facilities

  • Caddies
  • Golf carts
  • Practice facilities
  • Golf lessons
  • Club & shoe rental
  • Night golf
  • Golf shop
  • On-site accommodation
  • Spa & massage

Ballyshear Golf Links - Course Reviews 3 reviews

Ballyshear Golf Links

Great

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Excellent fairways in general, 2 holes are under maintenance but the rest of the course is immaculate. Lunch was excellent especially the coconut cream soup

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  • 5
  • Condition 5
  • Facilities 5
  • Pace of play 5
  • Service 5
  • Overall 5
  • Review Score 5
Ballyshear Golf Links

Disappointed with course conditions

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Many areas fungus / algae infected . Fairways under repair. Caddies mixed experience .club house functional but new . Not worth the THB 9000 per player

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  • 5
  • Condition 2
  • Facilities 4
  • Pace of play 4
  • Service 3
  • Overall 3
  • Review Score 3.2
Ballyshear Golf Links

Challenging links course

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New Links course with windy and challenge lay out near Bangkok

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  • 5
  • Condition 4
  • Facilities 4
  • Pace of play 4
  • Service 4
  • Overall 4
  • Review Score 4
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