Thailand Golf Tour - Hatyai, 2018 Nov

During one of the lunch, a quick decision was made to drive to HatYai for golf since it has been a while we had been there. However, we want the trip to be free and easy one, where we probably play only 2 rounds and the rest of the days just decide what to do when the time comes. As such, only the 3 Musketeers; Lee, David and Alex made the journey from Nov 6 to 9. We went in Lee’s car.

At first, we plan to play Harvard GC on the way up since David has not played the course before. Unfortunately, Nov 6 was a public holiday celebrating Deepavali, even though we had the affiliation cards  we could not use it. The golf package was RM 80, which we thought it was not worthwhile. So we left and played Thongthai Banrai instead. For a total of 420 baht (gf 200, caddy 220), we had an enjoyable round. The feeling of playing the course all by ourselves, made it even more satisfying. During the game, David introduced a new betting game called “Fish”, which at the end Lee took all of them.

We stayed at Hatyai Golden Crown for 870 baht per night for a single room with long bath. Probably, one of the best deals. We ate dinner twice at a small Thai food restaurant besides the hotel and once at Kang Eng. Delicious and cheap!

Wednesday, was free and easy. We thought we might as well try fishing in a pay-to-fish fishing pond in Hatyai and went with tutuk to check out some ponds. The first fishing outlet wanted to charge 500 baht per person for a full day activity. They did not seem to be interested to offer even hourly basis, so we head to the next place. Unfortunately, this place only open for business at 11am. At the end, we gave up the idea.

Instead of going to West Side for our regular drink stop, we went to Kiss Wand Dang pub instead.

The place was not crowded since it was a  Wednesday night.  Here there were more than 1 bands but each  played on a timed basis also with different singers. However, they were only singing Thai songs so we stayed for about 2 hours, did not even waited for the sexy dancers to perform . My personal opinion, West Side is still the most entertaining pub in Hatyai!

Since Thongthai Banrai offered a value for money golf package, we went back to play on Thursday. The “fish” was won and lost between players until it was only David and Alex fighting only to square off the last 2 holes. At the end, it was a deadlock, nobody won!

During the 4 days, it was raining off and on. But fortunately for us, we only met with short drizzle.

Just a reminder, we should avoid November month in the future.