Last updated: 27 July 2026
Organising a society trip is mostly admin: one person chasing deposits, balancing handicaps, and trying to get sixteen people onto a tee sheet at a sensible hour. Thailand makes the golf part easy and cheap — but it has its own rules, and a few of them will trip up a group that plans it like a Portugal trip.
This is written for whoever in your society has been landed with organising it. Everything below comes from the published rates we hold for 194 Thai courses, checked in July 2026.
The arithmetic is what does it. A four-ball at a well-regarded Thai championship course costs less than a mid-week round at a decent English club, and the courses are in better condition for more of the year. Add a caddie on every bag, carts that are actually included in most package rates, and a clubhouse that will lay on a prize-giving without blinking, and a society week works out at roughly what a long weekend in the Algarve costs once you have paid for flights.
Seven nights, five rounds, four-star hotel, excluding flights.
Where most courses start quoting below the published rate.
Realistic minimum to take over a course on a weekday.
When you send an enquiry, these are the levers that actually move the number. Get them right and the same trip can come back several hundred pounds a head cheaper.
Pick one base and stay in it. Thai traffic and a five-hour round mean travel days cost you golf, and moving sixteen sets of clubs between hotels is nobody's idea of a holiday. Each of these has enough courses within range for a full week without repeating.
The deepest course list in Thailand and the easiest logistics for a big group.
Calmer, shortest wet season, and the strongest courses per baht.
The famous clubs — and the worst traffic. Base yourself near the courses.
Fewer courses, but the best of them are outstanding and non-golfers are happy.
Thai clubs are used to visiting societies and will help more than you expect — but ask early, because the extras are arranged by the club rather than bolted on by a tour operator.
One enquiry. We come back with real group pricing from courses and Thailand golf specialists — green fees, tee times and hotels for the whole party. Free, no obligation.
Most Thai courses treat eight or more as a group and will quote a rate below the published green fee. At sixteen you can usually hold consecutive tee times on a single sheet, and from around twenty-four to thirty-two a course will consider a shotgun start. Below eight you are generally paying the standard visitor rate, though a golf specialist may still bundle a better package.
Yes, and it is far easier to arrange than in the UK. You normally need enough golfers to fill most of the course — from about twenty-four upwards, with thirty-two or more making it straightforward — plus a weekday slot and a few months' notice. Courses will often add a starter, scoreboard and a prize-giving room.
For seven nights with five rounds, budget roughly £1,100 to £1,900 per golfer excluding flights. Green fees across the courses in our directory that publish comparable rates average ฿2,320 in low season and ฿3,249 in high season, and a compulsory caddie adds around ฿450 per round plus a cash tip of ฿400 to ฿500 that no package includes.
Four things. Caddies are compulsory and tipped in cash, which is not in any package price. Most courses require a minimum of three players per flight and a maximum of five, so a group of eighteen does not split neatly into fours everywhere. Carts are often compulsory at weekends. And weekend tee times at the better clubs open only a few days ahead, so a weekday itinerary is both cheaper and easier to book.
November to February is the most reliable weather but also the priciest, and the good courses fill early — book six to nine months ahead for a large group. May, June and September are considerably cheaper to fly to and the golf is still good, with rain usually arriving as short afternoon downpours rather than washouts.