Memberships available:
Individual, Family, Corporate
Green fee:
2,500 THB
Caddie fee:
250 THB
Golf cart hire:
750 THB
Facilities:
Accommodation | Driving Range
Equipment
Rental | Pro Shop
Resident Professional | Massage
Restaurant
You could not mistake this Nicklaus design – long waste bunkers on several holes, other bunkers exactly where a club golfer hits the drive and water to keep the player hitting in the direction Jack wants you to. It’s as if he takes an average handicap player out with him, watches the player hit and then says, “Let’s put the hazard right here!”
Far from main roads and towns, this is a peaceful setting and a delight for all levels of player. The fact that several Asian PGA players base themselves in this area, and practice and play here regularly, is testament to Springfield’s draw as a club with excellent facilities.
The addition of a new hotel and spa, as well as a new nine holes in 2006, has made this a premier golf destination. With three different and challenging 9’s, Springfield is a must. There's a choice of five different tees for varying levels of golfer: the white, or members, tee is a good test, while the blue at 6,700 yards is long enough for more serious golfers.
This is the only course in Thailand which is properly marshalled on busier days to ensure the speed of play is acceptable − a rare treat indeed. Looking at the whole package of golf, beach side hotel, course side hotel, spa, and restaurant, there is something for everyone, non-golfers included.
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The 2nd 483 yards par 5 on the Mountain Course is an enticing one if you get a good drive away. A bunker and water left should keep you in the middle or out right, but if you catch the drive well, you’ll be left with a fairway wood to reach the green in two shots and have a go at an eagle. However, the green is protected by bunkers right and left and by a small stream that runs away from you to the right. Not a hole to slice your second shot on. |
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| The 8th 347 yards par 4 on the Mountain Course is to be treated with respect. A lake left and bunkers right, make this an intimidating drive and a massive tree also shields the left side of the green. This is a sacred tree to the locals with coloured ribbons and flowers tied round it, signifying that a friendly ghost inhabits it. Once the drive has been negotiated, you are left with a mid iron into a bunker protected green that’s raised and has two tiers so a wicked putt awaits you if you get the approach wrong. |  |
The 4th 386 yards par 4 on the Lake Course is a trademark Jack Nicklaus hole with a huge waste bunker and lake down the right and trees on the left. If you don’t hit a good drive, you’re left with a longish carry over a canal to an uphill sloped green protected by a single bunker on the left. |
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The 9th 473 yards par 5, Lake Course Mr Nicklaus has created a fantastic finishing hole to tempt the craftier hitters into going for an eagle. It’s a dog-leg left with high trees protecting the dog-leg and a bunker guarding a straight drive, water all down the right for the second shot and an island green. So you take a 5 wood, lay-up, throw a wedge on and 2 putt for par. Big deal. Have fun. Hit the drive round or over the trees and you'll find yourself with half a chance of taking on the green with anything from a wood to a 4 iron. There’s a local agreement that anything less than 210 yards for the second shot is a must-have-a-go obligation. You are, after all, only young once! |
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At the 2004 Singha Masters held at Springfield, two stalwarts of the Asian Tour based in Hua Hin were well ahead of the rest of the field and going head-to-head on the final day.
Greg Hanrahan started the day one shot ahead of Simon Yates, but made five birdies on the trot from the 7th to the 11th to get four shots clear. However a titanic battle was to ensue. With a small and very local gallery walking inside the ropes, there were no marshals or security guards; just two great players providing some of the most entertaining golf ever seen in Thailand.
Yates hit driver, 6 iron to a back pin on the 518 yard par 5 12th, and nailed a putt for eagle to pull two shots back, and then made one more shot back on the par 4 15th. This hole is 460 yards long into the wind, but the ‘Wee Man’, as he's known on tour, crushed a huge drive and then hit a 9 iron to a back pin for birdie.
With all to play for, it took a mistake by Hanrahan on the 17th for Yates to draw level with just the par 5 18th to play.
A spectator accidentally dropped his umbrella in the middle of Yates’ set up routine for the second shot to the island green, but he still made birdie − after muttering something about the incident costing the man a beer − and took the title by a single shot.
An enthralling afternoon of golf played in the true spirit of the game, and a display that was a credit to both players.
