The closest golf courses to Suvarnabhumi by road are The Royal Golf and Country Club (about 17 minutes), Krungthep Kreetha Sports Club, Thana City Golf and Sports Club, Unico Grande Golf Course (20–21 minutes), and Summit Windmill Golf Club (about 24 minutes). These are OpenStreetMap driving times from the terminal outside rush hour; Bangkok traffic can double them.
To play 18 holes between flights you need a gap of about 11 to 12 hours, because you have to clear immigration and be back at the airport three hours before an international departure. With less time, play nine holes, or play on the day you land or the day you fly. Summit Windmill is the easiest choice: it is floodlit for night golf, and the Suite Hotel inside the club runs a free airport shuttle for its guests.
Airport tip: a metered taxi from the public taxi rank to the nearest courses typically costs ฿200–฿400, plus the ฿50 airport surcharge and any tolls. Grab works from the arrivals hall too.
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17min
The Royal Golf and Country Club
The best-rated course near the airport by a clear margin — ★4.7 from 3,430 reviews. Par 72 over 7,123 yards, about 17 minutes from the terminal by road.
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20min
Krungthep Kreetha Sports Club
One of Bangkok’s older clubs — James R. Vaughn, 1969 — and set closer to the city than to the terminal, which suits an arrival day better than a departure. Closed after the September 2026 floods; the club plans to reopen on 3 November 2026.
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21min
Thana City Golf and Sports Club
Par 72 over 7,008 yards, about 20 minutes from the terminal, and the most reviewed course this close to BKK — 3,323 Google reviews at ★4.4. There is a hotel on site, so an overnight stopover can be handled without going into Bangkok at all.
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21min
Unico Grande Golf Course
A short par-66 course of 5,168 yards with a run of par 3s on the back nine, so the quickest 18 near the airport. Worth knowing about if you have three or four hours rather than five.
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24min
Summit Windmill Golf Club
A Nick Faldo design and, at 6,964 yards, the only genuine championship test this close to the airport. It is also fully floodlit, and the Suite Hotel inside the club runs a free airport shuttle for its guests. If you are playing on a layover, read the section below before booking anywhere else. Reopened on 15 October 2026 after the September floods.
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24min
Muang Kaew Golf Course
Par 72 with 1,294 reviews at ★4.2, on the city side of the airport. A straightforward parkland round rather than a championship test — well suited to a stopover, less so to a trip built around it.
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30min
Bangna Navy Golf Course
A Royal Thai Navy course in Bang Na, west of the terminal, par 72. A modest 133 reviews but a strong ★4.3 average. Note it sits on the opposite side of the airport from most of this list — check the traffic before committing to it.
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32min
Green Valley CC
A Robert Trent Jones Jr. layout from 1992 at 6,900 yards, and the best value near the airport: ฿1,800 in low season, about ฿2,150 all in once the caddie is paid. Reported to open for night golf too — worth confirming when you book.
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34min
Lakewood Country Club
Twenty-seven holes across three nines, which makes short-notice tee times easier to come by here than anywhere else on this list. A J. Michael Poellet design from 1992. Reckon on about ฿3,500 all in — ฿2,300 green fee on a weekday, ฿400 caddie, ฿800 cart.
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36min
Suvarnabhumi Golf and Country Club
Despite the name, it is not by the airport: the club is in Nong Chok, north-east of the terminal, about half an hour or more by road. Formerly President Country Club, a 36-hole Robert Trent Jones Jr. layout. Go for the golf, not for a tight connection.
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48min
Subhapruek Golf Course
Par 72 east of the airport, ★3.9 from 680 reviews. The furthest on this page, nearly 50 minutes by road: a quiet round, not a layover one.
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How long a layover you need
Most of a layover round is spent getting in and out of the airport, not on the course. A realistic plan for 18 holes:
| Step | Allow |
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| Landing to the taxi rank: immigration, bags, left luggage | 1 hour |
| Drive to the course | 30 minutes |
| Check in, change, warm up | 30 minutes |
| 18 holes with a caddie | 4½–5 hours |
| Shower and change | 30 minutes |
| Drive back, with a buffer for traffic | 1 hour |
| At the airport before an international departure | 3 hours |
| Total | about 11–12 hours |
Nine holes cuts about 2½ hours, so a gap of nine or ten hours is enough. Airports of Thailand asks passengers to be at the airport three hours before international flights and two hours before domestic ones.
Getting out of the airport, and your bags
- You have to enter Thailand. Leaving the airport means clearing immigration, so you need a visa or a visa exemption for your passport, and the Thailand Digital Arrival Card, filed online at tdac.immigration.go.th within three days before you land.
- Left luggage. The airport has left-luggage counters on the arrivals floor (level 2) and the departures floor (level 4), open around the clock; expect about ฿100 a bag a day, and check the price at the counter.
- Clubs. Most courses rent sets: Summit Windmill charges ฿2,000–฿2,500 a set. Reserve ahead, and say if you need left-handed clubs, which are scarce.
- A shower before you fly. Summit Windmill's locker rooms have showers and a sauna, and Lakewood's have a sauna and jacuzzi. Pack a change of clothes in your hand luggage.
After the September 2026 floods: Summit Windmill reopened on 15 October and Krungthep Kreetha plans to reopen on 3 November. Check with the club before you travel.
Which airport for which golf region
Suvarnabhumi takes most long-haul flights. For the beach and northern regions, fly on to the nearest airport rather than drive.
| Golf region | Airport and drive time | Drive to |
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| Bangkok | Suvarnabhumi (BKK): 26 min (29 km) Don Mueang (DMK): 32 min (25 km) | central Bangkok |
| Pattaya | Suvarnabhumi (BKK): 1 h 25 min (122 km) U-Tapao (UTP), fewer flights: 57 min (45 km) | Pattaya Beach Road |
| Hua Hin | Suvarnabhumi (BKK): 2 h 45 min (225 km) Hua Hin (HHQ), few flights: 10 min (10 km) | Hua Hin town |
| Khao Yai | Don Mueang (DMK): 2 h 10 min (152 km) Suvarnabhumi (BKK): 2 h 20 min (180 km) | Pak Chong |
| Kanchanaburi | Don Mueang (DMK): 1 h 50 min (135 km) Suvarnabhumi (BKK): 1 h 55 min (159 km) | Kanchanaburi town |
| Phuket | Phuket (HKT): 51 min (37 km) | Patong |
| Khao Lak | Phuket (HKT): 1 h 15 min (77 km) | Khao Lak |
| Krabi | Krabi (KBV): 37 min (29 km) Phuket (HKT): 2 h 30 min (156 km) | Ao Nang |
| Chiang Mai | Chiang Mai (CNX): 16 min (7 km) | the Old City |
| Chiang Rai | Chiang Rai (CEI): 15 min (10 km) | the city |
| Koh Samui | Samui (USM): 7 min (3 km) | Chaweng |
OpenStreetMap driving times from the airport, outside rush hour. Flights from Bangkok serve every airport on this list; check schedules for the smaller ones.
สนามกอล์ฟใกล้สนามบินสุวรรณภูมิ
สนามที่ใกล้สนามบินสุวรรณภูมิที่สุดเมื่อเดินทางทางถนน คือ เดอะ รอยัล กอล์ฟ แอนด์ คันทรี คลับ (ประมาณ 17 นาที) กรุงเทพกรีฑา ธนาซิตี้ และยูนิโก้ แกรนด์ (ประมาณ 20 นาที) และซัมมิท วินด์มิลล์ (ประมาณ 25 นาที) ในช่วงที่การจราจรไม่ติดขัด ส่วนสุวรรณภูมิ กอล์ฟ แอนด์ คันทรี คลับ อยู่ที่หนองจอก ไม่ได้อยู่ติดสนามบิน
หากจะออกรอบ 18 หลุมระหว่างต่อเครื่อง ควรมีเวลาราว 11–12 ชั่วโมง เพราะต้องผ่านตรวจคนเข้าเมือง และควรกลับถึงสนามบินก่อนเที่ยวบินระหว่างประเทศ 3 ชั่วโมง ซัมมิท วินด์มิลล์ มีไฟส่องสว่างสำหรับตีกอล์ฟกลางคืน และโรงแรมซัมมิท วินด์มิลล์ กอล์ฟ สวีท ภายในสนามมีรถรับส่งสนามบินฟรีสำหรับแขกที่พัก
ค่ากรีนฟีวันธรรมดาอยู่ระหว่างประมาณ 1,800–3,500 บาท วันหยุดสุดสัปดาห์และวันนักขัตฤกษ์จะสูงกว่านี้ ทุกสนามต้องจ้างแคดดี้ (ประมาณ 350–450 บาท ไม่รวมทิป) ส่วนค่าแท็กซี่จากสนามบินไปยังสนามกอล์ฟโดยทั่วไปอยู่ที่ 200–400 บาท
รายละเอียดของแต่ละสนาม — ค่ากรีนฟี ระยะทาง และเวลาเดินทาง — อยู่ในรายการด้านบน (ภาษาอังกฤษ)
How to book a round near Bangkok airport
There is no single booking desk for golf at Suvarnabhumi. In practice you have three routes, and which one you want depends on how much notice you have.
1. Direct with the club
Cheapest, and fine if you have a few days’ notice. The thing most visitors get wrong is the channel: Thai golf clubs run on LINE and telephone, not email. An email to a club’s general address can sit unread for a week; a LINE message to the pro shop is usually answered the same day. If a club lists a LINE ID, use it.
2. Through your hotel
If you are staying at one of the two hotels inside Summit Windmill — Hilton Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Golf Resort & Spa or the Summit Windmill Golf Suite Hotel — the concierge books the tee time and the shuttle together, which removes the two things most likely to go wrong on a stopover. Most four- and five-star Bangkok hotels will arrange golf transfers even if they have no course of their own.
3. Tell us your flight times and we’ll come back with options
Use the form further down this page. Give us your landing and departure times and Golfasian, our golf trip partner, will come back with the courses that actually fit the gap, the green fee for your dates, and the transfer time from the terminal. It is free and there is no obligation.
What the club will ask you for
Have these ready and a booking takes one message rather than five:
- Date and a tee-time window — not just “Tuesday morning”. Give an earliest and a latest.
- Number of players. Thai courses normally group golfers three to a flight, and some will not accept a single or a pair at busy times. Summit Windmill is the notable exception near the airport — it pairs solo golfers into a flight where it can.
- Buggy or walking. Some courses make a cart compulsory; it is a separate fee everywhere.
- Rental clubs, and whether you are left- or right-handed. Left-handed sets are genuinely scarce and need reserving in advance.
- Your hotel or pickup point, if you want a transfer arranged.
Costs to budget for beyond the green fee
The advertised green fee is never the total. A caddie is compulsory at effectively every course in Thailand — budget roughly ฿350–฿450 in fees plus a tip, which is customary and separate. A cart adds about ฿600–฿800. Weekend and public-holiday rates run substantially higher than midweek: at Summit Windmill the difference is ฿3,500 against ฿4,500, and that pattern holds across the Bangkok courses. If your dates are flexible at all, play midweek.
Taxis from the terminal to any course on this page typically run ฿200–฿400. Use the public taxi rank and ask for the meter, or book a Grab from the arrivals hall.
The one course you can genuinely play on a layover
Most “golf near the airport” lists stop at distance. The practical question is whether you can get there, play and get back without a hire car — and at Summit Windmill you can. Hilton Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Golf Resort & Spa and the Summit Windmill Golf Suite Hotel both sit inside the golf club, and the Suite Hotel runs a free 24-hour airport shuttle for its guests, every two hours. Booking sites list one at the Hilton too; confirm it when you book. The club itself does not run one.
It is also the only floodlit championship course this close to the terminal. Nine holes of night golf costs ฿900 — roughly £20 — and solo travellers are paired into a flight where possible, which matters because Thai courses normally require three players.
| Layover planning | Detail |
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| Transfer from the terminal | 15–20 minutes |
| Latest night tee-off, Tue–Fri | Before 8.00pm (nine holes) |
| Latest night tee-off, Sat–Sun | Before 7.00pm (nine holes) |
| Mondays | No night golf |
| Nine holes, night golf | ฿900 visitor |
| Club rental | ฿2,000–฿2,500 per set — reserve ahead |
Confirmed with Summit Windmill, August 2026. Full rates, tee-time windows and photographs →
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Frequently Asked Questions
About 11 to 12 hours for 18 holes: an hour to clear immigration and collect bags, half an hour each way by road, five hours on the course, time to shower, and three hours back at the airport before an international flight. Nine holes needs about nine or ten hours.
Suvarnabhumi (BKK) for both: about 1 h 25 to Pattaya and 2 h 45 to Hua Hin by road. U-Tapao and Hua Hin airports are closer but have far fewer flights.
Not from a golf club directly, but two hotels sit inside Summit Windmill Golf Club — Hilton Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Golf Resort & Spa and Summit Windmill Golf Suite Hotel — and the Suite Hotel runs a free 24-hour airport shuttle for its guests, every two hours (booking sites list one at the Hilton too: confirm when you book). Staying at either is the simplest way to play on a stopover without arranging your own transport.
Yes. Thai courses normally require three players per flight, but Summit Windmill accepts solo bookings and pairs single golfers into a group where possible. It is 15 to 20 minutes from the terminal and floodlit, so an evening nine is realistic even on a late arrival.
By road, from about 17 minutes for The Royal Golf and Country Club to around 48 minutes for the furthest on this page, outside rush hour. Suvarnabhumi Golf and Country Club is not next to the airport, whatever the name suggests: it is in Nong Chok, about 36 minutes away. Allow much longer in Bangkok rush hour.
A hired car or GrabCar/taxi is the most practical way to reach Thai golf courses. Golf transfers can also be arranged through most hotels. Public transport does not serve golf courses reliably.
Three ways. Book direct with the club, using LINE or the telephone rather than email — Thai clubs answer LINE far faster. Book through your hotel, which is simplest if you are staying at one of the two hotels inside Summit Windmill, because they arrange the tee time and the airport shuttle together. Or send us your flight times using the form on this page and Golfasian, our golf trip partner, will come back with the courses that fit your gap, the green fee for your dates and the transfer time from the terminal.
Typically ฿200–฿400 each way for any course on this page. Use the official public taxi rank and ask for the meter, or book a Grab from the arrivals hall.
For 18 holes, plan on five to six hours from terminal back to terminal: roughly 20 minutes each way in transfers, about four and a half hours for the round, and a margin for immigration and traffic. With less than five hours, play nine holes instead, or choose Suvarnabhumi Golf and Country Club at 1 km, or Unico Grande, which is a par 63 and much quicker to get round.
Yes. Suvarnabhumi has left-luggage counters in the terminal, charged per item per day — check the current rate on arrival. If you are staying at either hotel inside Summit Windmill they will hold your bags, which is usually easier on a stopover.
Usually. Thai courses normally group golfers three to a flight and some will not accept a single or a pair at busy times. Summit Windmill is the exception near the airport — it accepts solo bookings and pairs single golfers into a flight where it can, which is what makes it the practical choice for a layover round.
Every course on this list rents clubs. At Summit Windmill a set is ฿2,000–฿2,500 whether you play nine holes or 18. Reserve ahead rather than turning up and asking, and say if you are left-handed — left-handed sets are scarce and clubs hold very few.
Summit Windmill is the only fully floodlit championship course this close to the terminal, with nine holes under lights from ฿900. The last night tee-off is before 8pm Tuesday to Friday and before 7pm at weekends, and there is no night golf on Mondays. Green Valley is also reported to open for night golf — confirm when you book.
It depends which terminal you are flying through. Don Mueang (DMK) handles most low-cost and domestic flights and has its own cluster of courses north of the city — see our guide to golf courses near Don Mueang Airport. The two airports sit on opposite sides of Bangkok, so pick the cluster that matches your terminal rather than crossing the city.