Santiburi Country Club Chiang Rai

Overview: Santiburi Country Club Chiang Rai is an 18-hole mountain course in Wiang Chai, northeast of Chiang Rai city. Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed the par-72 layout, which is listed at approximately 6,853 yards and moves through rolling fairways with bunkers, lakes and trees set against the hills of northern Thailand. The course has the scale of a championship venue but its strongest appeal is the changing landscape: broad views, open ground and cooler highland scenery make it a natural complement to Chiang Rai’s cultural and resort travel.

History: The course opened in 1993 and is consistently described as Chiang Rai’s first and grandest golf course. Its identity has remained connected to the Santiburi name and to Jones’s use of the local terrain rather than a flat, artificially repetitive layout. Current listings continue to identify the same 18-hole routing and active visitor operation. The sources reviewed do not support a more detailed construction chronology, so the profile keeps the history focused on the verified opening and design.

Did You Know? Local course descriptions make much of the early-morning atmosphere: winter fog can sit over the first holes before the sun reveals the rolling fairways, lakes and trees. That changing light is more than a travel image; it explains why Santiburi Chiang Rai reads as a northern mountain course even though the holes themselves are maintained as a polished championship layout.