Golf

Seven nights, six rounds, a 4-star hotel and real food and drinks: about $1,840 a head for four friends sharing a van, or $2,390 alone. Here's the day-by-day plan with named courses, the full budget in baht and dollars, and where to play at night.

Every golf course in Thailand gives you a caddie. Here's what she does, what you actually pay (the fee and the tip are different things), how to hand over the tip, and the mistakes that make first-timers look bad.

The green fee is the number on the website. It's usually less than half of what you'll actually spend. Here's the full line-item bill at budget, mid-range and premium courses around Bangkok, and how to pay less.

Casual tournaments run on declared handicaps, and declared handicaps are fiction. System 36 fixes that on the day. Here's how it works, and whether it can be gamed.