Gold Mountain Golf Club is the latest addition to the northern Thai golf scene. Currently it is in a –˜soft opening–™ phase and conditions are a bit rough, though all 18 holes are open for play. The front nine opened in 2009 and the back nine earlier this year. The clubhouse won–™t be finished until 2010. For now the caddie shack serves as a limited service clubhouse and serves up a bit of Thai food along with an assortment of beverages.

Gold Mountain is located near Lamphun, just over an hour–™s drive from Chiang Mai. The location is a bit remote, and in fact they don–™t even have a landline phone yet. Finding it is not easy, as the entrance road at this time is a small and almost hidden dirt track over a hill with no indication of a golf course from the main road other than a small hand painted sign, in Thai, lying on the ground next to the dirt road.