The Red Mountain Golf Club located in Phuket is considered as one of the very best golf courses in Asia. Offering an exciting variety of play to match the stunning natural surroundings, this golf club is truly first class. It was opened in the year 2008 and within a short period of time it was awarded the “Platinum Golf Course of the Year” in 2011 at the Hospitality Asia Platinum Awards ceremony.

This amazing Red Mountain Golf Club is built on a tin mine site in the heart of Phuket and the way they have cleverly incorporated the scars left from the mining site is truly remarkable. With a variety of landforms and the fun playing environment, this well maintained course offers an exhilarating experience for golfers. If you are heading to Phuket then do not forget to pay a visit to this spectacular golf club where you could enjoy a memorable time at the course with its scenic beauty. Adorned with Bermuda Hybrid grass, the surface of this golf course is fast and remains true all year around. The natural waste bunkers, towering precipices, deep ravines and flooded gullies in the Red Mountain Golf Club offers a very interesting and challenging game for the players. The area takes exceptional care about drainage to ensure an enjoyable time for visitors even during the rainy seasons. With so many amazing facilities and amenities for golf lovers, the Red Mountain Golf Club has rightfully earned the label of best Golf Course in Phuket.

When you are on the lookout for accommodation in Phuket, residing at a Phuket resort would be the best choice. There is a vast array of options to choose starting from comfortable motels to five star luxuriant hotels. With plenty of Patong resorts available in Singapore you can easily select the ideal place to reside. Millenium Resort Patong Phuket is an excellent hotel as it is located in the heart of Patong making your trip very convenient. It is set in the vicinity of Phuket’s trendy fashion hub and the Patong beach. This beautiful hotel offers you a truly breathtaking stay within its modern and contemporary designed premises.

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Tipped to one of Asia’s premier golfing greens and arguably the most breathtaking course in all of Thailand the Red Mountain Golf Club is no ordinary golfing venue in the heart of Phuket. Conveniently situated in the city centre of the island the captivating course is a mere 15 minutes from the beach and is easily accessible to tourists vacationing along Karon or Patong beach. Revered as a state-of-the-art 19-hole course the Red Mountain Golf Club is one of the most popular golfing haunts in the country despite its fairly recent foray in to the country’s golf scene. Having opened its doors to the public as recently as 2007 the club has grown in popularity and stature to become one of the best courses in all of Asia.

Fully equipped with the facilities of champion golf courses the Red Mountain Golf Club is suited for both novices and seasoned golfers as modern practice ranges, contemporary club facilities and grassy driving ranges are also part of the landscape. Regarded as Phuket’s most mountainous course the spectacular land formations and drastic changes in elevation make the course a challenging turf as well. Built on what was once a thriving tin mining property the club offers golfers a variety of naturally formed obstacles comprising of water, wind, slopes and dramatic altitude changes. Designed by Jon Morrow with the aid of famed course designer Al Tikkanen the 6900 yard space is a veritable marvel of a golf course that could rival any top club in the world.

The greens are composed of Bermuda grass which creates a fast paced and even putting ground while the tees and fairways of the Red Mountain Golf Club are lined with Seashore Paspalum grass, a turf that is commonly used in championship courses around the country. Other areas of the course contain natural grasses inherent to the landscapes to maintain the course’s rugged and natural appearance.

The final six holes of the course are the venue’s toughest and its most spectacular although the entire course is littered with hilly outcrops, innumerable water obstacles, risky holes and ground folds that make for an engaging game of golf regardless of skill and experience.

Visitors in search of a stunning Phuket beach resort will find no finer alternative to the Anantara Phuket Resort Thailand. Regarded as one of the island’s premier holiday hotspots this Phuket resort pulls out all the stops when it comes to vacationing in paradise.

Thanuja Silva is a travel writer who writes under the pen name Auburn Silver. She has a passion for fashion and a deep interest in admiring new and exotic attractions around the world.

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