What a round of golf in Thailand actually costs
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.
Published October 4, 2026
Prices as of October 2026. Exchange rate: 33.5 THB = 1 USD. Unless noted, rates are low season (most rate cards are valid to 31 October 2026). See "Season" below before you budget a trip between November and April.
The green fee is the number on the website. It's usually less than half of what you'll actually spend.
Here's a real weekday bill at Silverlake Links, 30 minutes from central Bangkok:
| Item | THB | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Green fee | 2,300 | $69 |
| Caddie fee (paid at the counter) | 450 | $13 |
| Cart | 850 | $25 |
| Caddie tip (cash, to your caddie) | 500 | $15 |
| At the bag drop | 4,100 | $122 |
That's before lunch, a beer, and the ride there and back. Add those and the 2,300-baht green fee is less than half of the day.
I didn't play much golf before I moved here. Now I'm obsessed with it. So here's the full bill, line by line, so you can budget properly.
The line items
Every round in Thailand has the same parts. Only the green fee changes much from course to course.
| Item | Typical range (THB) | USD | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green fee | 1,000–6,500 | $30–194 | Depends on the course, the day and your tee time |
| Caddie fee | 350–500 (most are 400–450) | $10–15 | Paid at the counter. Mandatory, one caddie per player. |
| Caddie tip | At least the caddie fee; 500 standard; about 1,000 for a booked caddie | $9–30 | Cash, handed to your caddie at the end of the round |
| Cart | 700–1,000 | $21–30 | Often bundled into "all-in" rates |
| Drink or snack for your caddie at the halfway hut | 20–40 | ~$1 | A common courtesy, not a rule |
| Post-round meal and drinks | 200–500 | $6–15 | A clubhouse beer runs about 120–200 ($3.50–6) |
| Private car + driver, round trip from central Bangkok | 2,000–2,900 per car | $60–87 | Split it between 2–4 golfers |
A few things that catch first-timers:
- The caddie is not optional. Essentially every course requires one per player. Budget the fee and the tip for every round.
- The caddie fee and the tip are different things. The fee goes through the pro shop. How much of it reaches your caddie varies by club. Your tip is a big part of what she earns. (Caddies here are almost always women.)
- Tip at least the caddie fee. Most courses charge 300–400, though the range runs 250–1,000. 500 is standard, the equivalent of 15% back home. 600–700 for a caddie who had a good day. If you book a specific caddie, expect about 1,000 minimum, and some ask for a "firm tip" of 800–3,000 agreed up front. For 9 holes or a twilight round, 200–300. More in the caddie guide.
- Bring cash. The tip goes from your hand to hers at the end of the round. Not on the card, not through the pro shop. Some courses take the caddie fee in cash only, too (Lakewood, for one).
- Green fees generally include VAT. The Royal Golf & Country Club's rate card says so, and I didn't find a Bangkok course adding VAT on top of green fees. Clubhouse food bills may add service charge and VAT. Check the menu.
What a round costs, by tier
These are visitor rates that include green fee, caddie fee and cart, but not the tip. Most come from the Club Thailand Card's published visitor rates for Bangkok-area courses (valid 1 September to 31 October 2026). Where we used a course's own rate page or another source, it's noted.
| Course | Tier | Weekday (THB) | Weekend (THB) | USD weekday / weekend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSU Vista (formerly Muang Ake Vista)¹ | Budget | 1,200–1,300 (morning) | 1,800 | $36–39 / $54 |
| Royal Thai Army, Ramindra² | Budget | — | 1,850 | — / $55 |
| Rachakram (Ayutthaya) | Budget | 1,900 | 2,100–2,500 | $57 / $63–75 |
| The Pine | Budget | 1,900 | 2,350–2,750 | $57 / $70–82 |
| Northern Rangsit | Budget | 2,200 | 3,100 | $66 / $93 |
| Royal Bang Pa-In | Mid | 3,350 | 4,750 | $100 / $142 |
| Bangkok Golf Club | Mid | 3,450 (night 3,150) | 4,250 | $103 / $127 |
| Lakewood CC | Mid | 3,646 | 4,609 | $109 / $138 |
| Lam Luk Ka¹ | Mid | 4,400 | 4,400 | $131 / $131 |
| The Royal G&CC | Mid | 4,250 | 5,250 | $127 / $157 |
| Summit Windmill | Mid–upper | up to 4,100 | up to 5,700 | $122 / $170 |
| Thai Country Club³ | Premium | 4,800 | 6,000 (after 11:30) | $143 / $179 |
| Thana City | Premium | 5,200 | 6,200 | $155 / $185 |
| Riverdale | Premium | 5,300 | 5,300 | $158 / $158 |
| Nikanti⁴ | Premium | 5,500 | 6,500 | $164 / $194 |
| Siam Country Club Bangkok | Premium | 5,850 | 6,850 | $175 / $204 |
| Alpine⁵ | Premium (private) | ~5,400 | ~7,400 | $161 / $221 |
¹ Official course rate page. ² golfdd.com, 3 October 2026. ³ Thai Country Club is private; check weekend visitor access before you plan around it. ⁴ Nikanti's rate also includes the caddie tip, breakfast, lunch and on-course food and drinks. ⁵ Alpine is private. Visitors get on through tour operators, mostly on weekdays. Figure from len.golf, late 2025.
The short version, weekday, before the tip:
- Budget: 1,400–2,300 THB ($42–69)
- Mid-range: 2,800–4,400 THB ($84–131)
- Premium: 4,800–6,000 THB ($143–179)
- Weekends usually add 1,000–2,000 THB ($30–60).
Prices for the same course can vary a lot between sources, because some quote the green fee alone and others quote it all-in. Before you compare two numbers, ask what's included.
The real bill, start to finish
Here's what one golfer actually spends in a day: a weekday round, low season, four golfers splitting a private car from central Bangkok.
| Budget (The Pine) | Mid (Bangkok Golf Club) | Premium (Thana City) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green + caddie + cart | 1,900 | 3,450 | 5,200 |
| Caddie tip | 400 | 400–500 | 700–1,000 |
| Halfway-hut drink for your caddie | 20–40 | 20–40 | 20–40 |
| Post-round meal and drinks | 200–500 | 200–500 | 200–500 |
| Your share of the car (÷4) | 500–725 | 500–725 | 500–725 |
| Total (THB) | 3,020–3,565 | 4,570–5,215 | 6,620–7,465 |
| Total (USD) | $90–106 | $136–156 | $198–223 |
| Weekend total | 3,470–4,415 ($104–132) | 5,370–6,015 ($160–180) | 7,620–8,465 ($227–253) |
Now run the budget column as a solo golfer. The car costs 2,000–2,900 on its own, and your day goes to 4,520–5,740 THB ($135–171). The ride costs more than the golf.
In Bangkok, the expensive part of golf often isn't the course. It's getting there.
Other ways to get there: a meter taxi for a course about 35 km out is roughly 350–500 THB each way plus tolls. That's an estimate from the meter tariff, not a quoted price, and drivers may refuse golf bags at 6 a.m. Grab is usually more. We couldn't find a published Grab fare with golf bags.
If you have an international driving permit or a Thai licence, you can drive yourself. If not, take a taxi or hire a driver. A hired driver's price depends on the distance and how long they wait for you.
Visiting without clubs? Rental at the course is typically 800–1,200 THB ($24–36) a round for a standard set, and 1,500–2,000+ for a premium set. Add it to every round.
Is it actually cheap?
Not compared with a US muni.
The National Golf Foundation puts the average 18-hole green fee at US municipal and daily-fee courses at about $41 (April 2026). A mid-range round near Bangkok, all in, is $136–156. That's three to four times as much.
The honest comparison is with private-club and resort golf. More than half of US resorts charge over $100 at peak for the green fee alone, per the NGF. In Thailand, about $130–150 gets you a course in private-club condition, a cart, and a personal caddie who hands you clubs, reads your putts, rakes your bunkers and finds your ball in the rough.
Cheap and good value are different things. Golf in Thailand is good value.
My take: compare like with like, a course of the same quality back home, and Thailand is probably a little cheaper. But not by much.
Season: the price on the website may be the wrong price
Most of the rates above are low-season ("green season") rates, valid to 31 October 2026.
High season runs roughly November through March or April, and fees go up 15–40%. Two examples:
- Thai Country Club's high-season rate is 5,500 weekday and 7,000 weekend.
- In Hua Hin, Springfield's green fee goes from 1,600 to 2,400 on 1 November.
If you're reading this between November and April, add 15–40% to the course numbers above. The tip, the car and lunch don't change.
How to pay less
All of these are real, published options, with examples.
- Play late. Afternoon and twilight rates are commonly 20–30% off after about 2–3 p.m. The Pine drops its green fee to 850 THB ($25) after 3:30 p.m., every day. Tip 200–300 for a twilight round.
- Play at night. It's hot here. Several courses near Bangkok light their fairways, and night rates often beat prime morning rates. Bangkok Golf Club's night green fee starts at 1,900 ($57). Panya Indra's night package is 3,100 ($93) Tuesday to Friday, caddie and cart included. RSU Vista runs night golf with a 150-baht electricity surcharge. Silverlake Links and Summit Windmill run night golf too.
- Take a later weekend tee time. Weekend prices often step down after the morning rush. Bangpakong: 4,200 early, 3,000 later.
- Find the sport day. Many courses run a weekly "sport day" with a reduced green fee, usually Monday or Wednesday.
- Use a booking app. Golfdigg covers about 40 Bangkok courses and books up to 60 days ahead. Its "up to 80% off" rates are often green fee only or tied to specific tee times, so check what's included. golfdd.com shows live Thai pricing by tee time.
- Get a discount card if you play a lot. Club Thailand Card rates run about 20–50% below visitor rates. Bangkok Golf Club, for example, is 2,650 on the card versus 3,450 as a visitor. You pay for the card itself, so it only makes sense if you play often. Check the current card price.
- Play as a member's guest. Rates for members' guests are much lower. Panya Indra's visitor green fee is 2,400 weekday and 4,800 weekend. As a member's guest, it's 1,600 and 3,000.
- Share the car. For a budget course, the difference between a solo car and a car split four ways is 1,500–2,175 THB per person. That's about the price of another round.
- Pick an all-inclusive when you'd eat anyway. Nikanti's 5,500 weekday rate already includes the tip, breakfast, lunch and drinks. Compare it with a premium course's total, not with its green fee.
My go-to moves for a cheaper weekday round: find the course's "sport day," a reduced green fee on certain weekdays; watch for time-of-day discounts; and play twilight.
Full memberships are their own topic. They're not covered here.
The cheat sheet
- Budget for green fee + caddie fee + cart + tip + food + transport. The green fee is less than half of it.
- A mid-range weekday round near Bangkok: about 4,600–5,200 THB ($136–156) all in, in low season, splitting a car.
- Carry cash for the tip. At least the caddie fee, 500 standard, about 1,000 for a booked caddie.
- November to April, add 15–40% to the course price.
- Go late, at night, or on promo days to pay less. Never ride solo to a budget course if you can avoid it.
Golf here isn't cheap. It's a private-club day for what a US resort charges for the green fee. Budget for the whole bill and it's one of the best deals in golf.