The Lamphun Golf Club is located about 50 minutes drive from Chiang Mai city via Sankampaeng.  It is a modern course that lies in a natural small side valley surrounded by beautiful rolling hills and offers some of the best golf in the Chiang Mai area. Thousands of mature native trees, together with well-designed traditional-style buildings give the golf course its unique, distinctly Northern character. Its contoured terrain, interspersed with creeks and water hazards, offers a challenge to golfers of all handicaps. The clever use of bunkering and the strategic placement of water-hazards make it a necessity to be accurate, if a good score is to be achieved. This is exemplified at the signature hole number nine, where the tee shot needs to be 'placed' between water hazards on both sides of the fairway, followed by a long carry over the big pond to a sloping green.  Official venue for the 1995 SEA Games.