About the Londoner Golf Club

We are an established, 25+ year old society for amateur golfers. We exist for members to play competitive golf in a fun, friendly and fair manner according to the rules. We welcome and support players to gain their initial handicaps. We believe our Londoner Way plus clear event guidance helps our members enjoy their golf and get the most out of our events.

We play our regular competitions (a mixture of singles events, mostly Stableford with some Medal, plus frequent team games like Pairs and Scrambles) at golf courses in and around Bangkok, every second and fourth Saturday of the month. We have three/four Away Weekends each year for our major competitions, an annual Match Play competition and several inter-society matches.

Our generous sponsors provide prizes for each competition and we encourage you to support them. Our customisable club shirts are very popular and help to create a sense of community.

Membership provides organised Saturday golf competitions at popular Bangkok courses, managed handicaps, annual competitions and our Londoner Christmas Dinner and Awards, a favourite within the society. Our members cite cameraderie and playing with friends as their key reasons for enjoying playing Londoner golf.

Interested in joining? Drop us a line at londonergolfclub@gmail.com or complete the Subscribe process using the button and we'll get back to you.

THE LONDONER WAY

Our Londoner Way intends to capture the spirit and approach of our golf society.

  • We are a friendly and open golf society where members have fun.
  • We welcome players of all abilities and backgrounds.
  • We are respectful and inclusive in all areas of our society.
  • We group players in a society way, i.e. anyone can, and will, be grouped with anyone. Requests for groupings are discouraged - you can choose your playing partners in Pairs and Team events.
  • We play Ready Golf, we putt out and we don't use drop zones.
  • Players and markers should take time to confirm any uncertain situations and scores with the committee before signing and submitting scorecards.
  • We always try and find the most equitable solution to a challenge e.g., when reaching a ruling conclusion or deciding on eligibility for a competition.

LOCAL RULES (updated October 2025)

Order of Precedence of rules (Highest to Lowest)
1. R&A Rules of Golf
2. Londoner Golf Club Local Rules
3. Course Local Rules

  • Free relief is available for dangerous situations due to an animal hazard.
  • No penalties will be applied due to caddies marking balls on the green without consent.
  • Relief is available on opposite side of red penalty area: When a player's ball is in or last crossed the edge of a red penalty area the player may also drop the ball on the opposite side of the penalty area in addition to the normal options.
  • Bangpakong Riverside Hole #3 - Advertising hoarding protecting drinks hut. Free relief allowed.
  • Vintage Hole #2 - The penalty is a Red Penalty Area even though it is marked as Yellow.
  • Vintage Hole #13 - The drop zone on Hole 13 is available for use. It can be used if your ball ends up in the vegetation between the tee box and the red penalty area.

LONDONER GOLF CLUB HISTORY

The origins of the club are from the mid-1990s as the British Embassy Golf Society, based in the Queen Vic Social Club in the British Embassy grounds in Wireless Road, Bangkok.  The first home course was the President Golf & Country Club in Minburi – now renamed Suvarnabhumi Golf and Country Club - and the first games were played at a 07:05 start.

In 1999 the UK Foreign Office decided that the Golf Society was not allowed to be included in the balance sheets of the British Embassy, so the Golf Society had to find a new home and the Londoner Brew Pub, then located at Sukhumvit Soi 33, agreed to become the society’s spiritual home and sponsor with the club becoming known as the Londoner Golf Club, captained by Bruce McLaren.

The first home course of the new era Medal rounds was Bangpakong Riverside, with 16 players in the first game all in one flight with the winner rewarded with cash prizes.

Competitions against other Bangkok golf societies was the norm with teams competing regularly against each other in MatchPlay leagues with names like the Johnny Walker league (at Bangpoo golf course), the PWC Golf League for trophies such as the Waterford Crystal Trophy, the CPY Trophy, the Coffee Pot and the Meinhardt Cup.

The society evolved the years throughout with more people organising, the introduction of flights from 2003, different event formats and additional courses being played, namely Royal Lakeside in Chonburi. Around this time the Londoners settled on playing on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month.

Matchplay competitions had ceased being the focus of golf society competitions by 2006 and the society continued to evolve and grow with the introduction over time of different competitions, away weekends, additional sponsors as well as the captaincy passing on to different custodians of the society.

In 2015 the original Londoner Brew Pub on Sukhumvit Soi 33 closed, reopening in 2017 at the current venue on Pattanakarn Road and remains our key sponsor and our spiritual home. At this stage the grand, wooden honours boards in the old pub had to go as there was no place for them in the new building. Fortunately the internet saved the day and the need for an accurate memory - see the Honours Boards on this website.

The number of players each game has grown (averaging 32 from 2018-2023) and the membership distribution list is at close to 300 people across more than 20 nationalities. We became known as Bangkok’s friendliest Golf Society in the mid 2010s and are proud of our inclusive nature - we don’t mind if you are a novice golfer or a scratch one - all are welcome. The courses we play at evolve as we take circumstances such as distance, price, layout, availability, conditions and other factors into account when getting deals for our members to play regular competition golf that follows the rules whilst also being fun.