Evergreen Hills Golf Club is located in Kanchanaburi Province about 2 1/2 hours west of Bangkok. We had a chance to play this course in early December when the weather was absolutely perfect. They currently have very reasonable weekday green fees of 800 baht per golfer and only 1200 baht on weekends. Caddie fees are 220 baht, typical for courses in this area.
Evergreen Hills offers an interesting format of holes, of which more than half are dog legs of some kind or another. Couple that with blind tee shots and smallish raised greens and you have a pretty decent venue for some interesting golf. The course is not long at only 6,471 yards at the blue tees, but the black tee (tips) come out to 7,111 yards. The yardages seem long due to the many dog legs which can be shorten with the proper placement of your tee shots. A good drive off the tee on the shorter par 4s will give you a mid to short iron approach shot on most holes. Miss the fairway, like I did on a couple of holes, and you can quickly run up big numbers getting out of those beautiful trees. In my case two snowmen ruined my score card for the day.
fairways in beautiful condition
There are 18 varieties of trees (one for each hole) that give the course a feeling unlike others in Thailand. For one thing, the general impression is that the course looks really green, even though we are in the dry season this time of year. Also the variety of trees gives one the impression that the course is somewhere other than Thailand where its too common for courses to use local vegetation and native trees. The fairways were in terrific shape and were neatly mowed in anticipation of a big tournament scheduled for the following week.
As for the course, right off the bat, the first hole is a par 5 to get your blood moving. Water doesn't come into play much on the front nine, but hole #6 requires an approach shot over water to the green. As mentioned previously, if you can shape your drives you can shorten your approach shots on the many doglegs. On the back nine, water comes into play on four holes, with hole #16 simulating an island green. The greens were hard but in pretty decent shape - modestly fast and rolled true.
Very basic but neat locker room facilities
The clubhouse, restaurant, and locker rooms are modest and didn't match up with this great course. The locker room was very basic and the showers were outdated and in need of renovation. The restaurant was large and had a good view, but we didn't stay for the food after our round as we had a tip on a local restaurant down the road which turned out to be really good (and cheap too).
Evergreen Hills in a complete resort with a hotel, meeting and banquet facilities. Its obviously set up more for corporate meetings and seminars where leisure time between sessions can be spent playing golf, tennis, snookers, or swimming.
Online booking is available on their website which is: http://www.evergreenhillsgolfclub.co.th/home.php.
Overall rating 3.5 out of 5 stars. Course was in great condition (getting ready for a big tournament), caddie service good, lockers and clubhouse was below average, restaurant and food facilities on the course was also average. Value was very good at 800 baht on weekdays.
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This golf club seems to be an exotic place for golfing in Thailand.
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