Just back from a trip to Chiang Mai.
Went up with a couple of old friends to play some golf and look around. It has been in the back of my mind for some time to move out of Bangkok and Chiang Mai was worth a look considering the history and golf courses.
The Golf was good, we played Lanna, the oldest course there and Green Valley. Both were great, but anyone considering Lanna should be sure they are not talked into playing the 9 holes on the race track. These were a disappointment. The rest of the course though is nice – a mature course with a lot of character.
Green Valley is one of the nicest courses I have ever played on. It is very much a manicured course and very well done. Everything was perfect – Tee boxes, fairways, greens, caddies, the restaurant in the club house. A magnificent course and I highly recommend it. I just wish I could have done it justice.
My golf is getting worse every day. I still enjoy it though, but there are times I wonder why.
Would have liked to have played at least one more game, but my playing partners were not up to it. Suffice to say the British Empire was not built by the likes of these two. They kept complaining about the heat! It wasn’t hot, only a warm 40 degrees or thereabouts.
Although the golf was great, Chiang Mai was a bit of a disappointment. These days it seems to be filled with halfwit Americans (as if there are any other kind), fat European and Australian women failing to look attractive in short shorts (which the local ladies manage very nicely) and snot gobbling Chinese, who, when they are not hawking and spitting are taking pictures of themselves with telephones on sticks. All a bit strange to me.
I will certainly go back for some golf, but not sure it is my final resting place.