Ministries to propose golf club quarantine following demand from foreign players

[rooster59]

Ministries to propose golf club quarantine following demand from foreign players

By THE NATION

 

Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn

 

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports, as well as the Ministry of Public Health, will propose to the Centre for Economic Situation Administration (CESA) to allow foreigners to quarantine in golf clubs, with an aim to serve golfers from four Asian countries.

 

 

The Minister of Tourism and Sports, Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, said that his organisation and the Ministry of Public Health will propose this plan to the CESA on November 11, before proposing this idea again to the Cabinet.

 

The foreigners will be quarantined in the golf clubs with accommodation standard in line with alternative local state quarantine centres. This idea came up after suggestions from golfers from four Asian countries, namely, China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

 

Phiphat explained that this quarantine programme would be different from the others in the country, as the golfers would be allowed to play in the golf courses during the time they are quarantined.

 

The minister said that five golf clubs have already expressed interest to be the alternative local state quarantine. They are in Nakhon Ratchasima, Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Saraburi and Kanchanaburi provinces.

 

The ministries aim to set around 20 to 30 clubs as the state quarantine. There are 238 golf clubs in Thailand.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/business/30397527?utm_source=category&utm_medium=internal_referral

 

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[unamazedloso]

Don't these people have anything better to do then brainstorm dumbness?

[PatOngo]

1 minute ago, unamazedloso said:

Don't these people have anything better to do then brainstorm dumbness?

Be kind! They are, after all, the Ministries of Desperation!

[Grumpy John]

After 14 days of playing the same holes I am pretty sure they will be looking for a change.  ????

[impulse]

21 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

After 14 days of playing the same holes I am pretty sure they will be looking for a change.  ????

 

They can get different caddies each day...

 

[quake]

1 hour ago, Grumpy John said:

After 14 days of playing the same holes I am pretty sure they will be looking for a change.  ????

Maybe a bit of cos play, would be in order

[drenddy]

These guys are completely deluded.It seems there is a general feeling among them that foreigners just wait in line, millions, to get into Thailand, then being put on quarantine and all these officials are into some sort of contest..Which one comes with best ideas in order to please thai people and, of course, the great leader.

[Tropicalevo]

6 minutes ago, drenddy said:

These guys are completely deluded.It seems there is a general feeling among them that foreigners just wait in line, millions, to get into Thailand, then being put on quarantine and all these officials are into some sort of contest..Which one comes with best ideas in order to please thai people and, of course, the great leader.

Well, it seems that the idea came from the golfers!

'This idea came up after suggestions from golfers from four Asian countries,'

[Misterwhisper]

How about designating selected go-go bars, pubs, and massage parlors as quarantine venues, too? I bet there's massive demand out there!   

Edited November 8, 2020 by Misterwhisper

[Geoffggi]

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The foreigners will be quarantined in the golf clubs with accommodation standard in line with alternative local state quarantine centres. This idea came up after suggestions from golfers from four Asian countries, namely, China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

Exactly how many golf clubs have the facilities to house, feed, segregate isolation players from the general public etc. ...................LOL

[tgw]

meanwhile, in France, golf courses were closed so as not to upset resentment among other quarantainees... :facepalm:

[topt]

1 hour ago, Geoffggi said:

Exactly how many golf clubs have the facilities to house, feed, segregate isolation players from the general public etc. ...................LOL

I can think of a couple around Pattaya.

Ideal for the Koreans who normally come Jan/Feb time and often play 36 holes a day. However no way they could be segregated from the staff/caddies etc. who work for the course/accommodation.

[darrendsd]

7 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

Don't these people have anything better to do then brainstorm dumbness?

 

This really is a typical TV members response - instant ridicule but no ideas themselves 

 

 

[TooBigToFit]

They should just make one world airline for the world's rich and infected so they can keep on travelling.

 

[garygooner]

Covid test every time on the 9th hole green. 

[Cake Monster]

Another Brain Fart.

When is all this Flatulence gonna stop ?

[garygooner]

7 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

After 14 days of playing the same holes I am pretty sure they will be looking for a change.  ????

You mean like moving from the Cowboy to Nana? 

[stretch5163]

4 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Well, it seems that the idea came from the golfers!

'This idea came up after suggestions from golfers from four Asian countries,'

Yes lol it came form the golfers look at the countries .....can you see many western countries amongst them....

 

No didnt think so.    

[JimGant]

 

Quote

This really is a typical TV members response - instant ridicule but no ideas themselves 

Indeed. Any golfers reading this thread? If so, you'll know that during the high season Thailand's golf courses are inundated with Asian tourist golfers. Most who have nothing more in mind than golf -- no malls, no temples -- nothing but being in a warm climate playing their beloved golf (ok, ok, that too, but I'm sure something can be arranged).

 

So why would being quarantined to the confines of a golf course be any different than in a plain vanilla quarantine hotel? The quarantine interface with housekeeping wouldn't be any different, nor with interfaces with management or food services. Yeah, the services of a caddie may need to be curtailed -- but, hey, the need for caddies dates back to pre-cart days in Thailand, and today carts are required (and unnecessary caddies really aren't.....). So, can the caddies.

 

This actually is really some forward thinking as the high season for golf approaches -- and many pent up Asian golfers are salivating for a warm clime and their golf. And Thai golf courses are now fully open, with covit rules in place (like, leaving the pin in). Just have some pre-screening rules in effect for these tour groups. And, maybe, if 14 days quarantine at the same golf course gets boring (maybe 10, as we read this), have agreements between adjacent quarantine golf courses for bus exchanges of groups.

 

Anyway, the main high season golf business is tourist golfers, so this looks like a good plan. Yeah, the locals will be shunted aside, but my last visit to a Chiang Mai golf course last week told me this would not be a great loss of business (a business the non quarantine golf courses would gratefully absorb, thus no negative impact on overall green fees for the country).

 

Good plan (just don't apply it to my favorite golf course in CM).

Edited November 8, 2020 by JimGant

[Grumpy John]

15 minutes ago, JimGant said:

Good plan (just don't apply it to my favorite golf course in CM).

You almost had me till you wrote that!   ????

[Lacessit]

19 minutes ago, JimGant said:

 

Indeed. Any golfers reading this thread? If so, you'll know that during the high season Thailand's golf courses are inundated with Asian tourist golfers. Most who have nothing more in mind than golf -- no malls, no temples -- nothing but being in a warm climate playing their beloved golf (ok, ok, that too, but I'm sure something can be arranged).

 

So why would being quarantined to the confines of a golf course be any different than in a plain vanilla quarantine hotel? The quarantine interface with housekeeping wouldn't be any different, nor with interfaces with management or food services. Yeah, the services of a caddie may need to be curtailed -- but, hey, the need for caddies dates back to pre-cart days in Thailand, and today carts are required (and unnecessary caddies really aren't.....). So, can the caddies.

 

This actually is really some forward thinking as the high season for golf approaches -- and many pent up Asian golfers are salivating for a warm clime and their golf. And Thai golf courses are now fully open, with covit rules in place (like, leaving the pin in). Just have some pre-screening rules in effect for these tour groups. And, maybe, if 14 days quarantine at the same golf course gets boring (maybe 10, as we read this), have agreements between adjacent quarantine golf courses for bus exchanges of groups.

 

Anyway, the main high season golf business is tourist golfers, so this looks like a good plan. Yeah, the locals will be shunted aside, but my last visit to a Chiang Mai golf course last week told me this would not be a great loss of business (a business the non quarantine golf courses would gratefully absorb, thus no negative impact on overall green fees for the country).

 

Good plan (just don't apply it to my favorite golf course in CM).

My favorite golf course in terms of cost and condition is Haripunchai, down in Lamphun. Difficult to find, so I doubt many golfers would get there. They can have Alpine, Chiang Mai Highland, Royal Chiang Mai and Gassan Legacy for all I care. The cheap charlies will flood Hang Dong, resulting in 6 hour rounds.

All the Chiang Rai courses only have the locals, doubt that will change much.

Small correction: Leaving the pin in when putting is an amendment to the Rules of Golf, nothing to do with coronavirus, as the amendments came in January 1, 2019. One still has the option of removing the flagstick.

[JAS21]

A course like Waterland would be ideal, It is run by Han Hee-won (ex LPGA Korean Golfer) and her nephew ..every high Season it is full of Koreans and they play all day every day...only stopping to eat!!  Very much enjoy playing that course ... avoid the High Season though!!!

 

Happy that the course  MrJ and I are members of does not have accommodation...

[Lacessit]

51 minutes ago, JAS21 said:

I course like Waterland would be ideal, It is run by Han Hee-won (ex LPGA Korean Golfer) and her nephew ..every high Season it is full of Koreans and they play all day every day...only stopping to eat!!  Very much enjoy playing that course ... avoid the High Season though!!!

 

Happy that the course  MrJ and I are members of does not have accommodation...

Waterland is where?

If you like watery golf courses, Huay Sak in Chiang Rai. Only six holes, every hole is a water carry from the tee, and not short carries either.

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports, as well as the Ministry of Public Health, will propose to the Centre for Economic Situation Administration (CESA) to allow foreigners to quarantine in golf clubs, with an aim to serve golfers from four Asian countries.

By hook or by crook Pipat will get anyone in !

[topt]

1 hour ago, JimGant said:

And Thai golf courses are now fully open, with covit rules in place (like, leaving the pin in).

 

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Small correction: Leaving the pin in when putting is an amendment to the Rules of Golf, nothing to do with coronavirus, as the amendments came in January 1, 2019. One still has the option of removing the flagstick.

Both correct.

When play resumed after the initial Covid break many courses had a stated guideline to not touch the pin. Some, like Pattana, had foam noodles at the base of the pin to stop the ball going in the cup - actually made the putting easier as if you hit the noodle it was considered holed........

 

At most of the courses I play the Covid "restrictions" have all but disappeared apart from plastic sheeting in carts at some and no AC on in some changing areas - but I think that is as much to do with cost as adhering to regulations as it is not uniform across all courses.

[JAS21]

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Waterland is where?

If you like watery golf courses, Huay Sak in Chiang Rai. Only six holes, every hole is a water carry from the tee, and not short carries either.

About 50km from Phitsanulok. During the round you used to go over the Nan river about six times... by boat..less now if I remember correctly. You also t-off over it a few times.

 

Think I wrote something about it maybe Feb 2019 in golf forum.. well worth a visit....they have a facebook page

 

I just see Sept 12 2017 I did a big write up on it ...in the Golf Forum

[Lacessit]

2 hours ago, JAS21 said:

About 50km from Phitsanulok. During the round you used to go over the Nan river about six times... by boat..less now if I remember correctly. You also t-off over it a few times.

 

Think I wrote something about it maybe Feb 2019 in golf forum.. well worth a visit....they have a facebook page

 

I just see Sept 12 2017 I did a big write up on it ...in the Golf Forum

I have a fond memory of teeing off at Banff in Canada, over the Bow River. One has to hit off with dozens of Banff Hotel patrons watching from the windows directly behind the tee.

[metisdead]

A post containing a copyrighted photo and the replies have been removed.  It was trolling anyway. 

[Alotoftravel]

5 hours ago, JimGant said:

 

Good plan (just don't apply it to my favorite golf course in CM

General question : would the golf resort that quarantine, informed the public (like a notice posted ) that this is alternative quarantine site (ASQ) so just simply closed the resort to the public to enter?

 

I agree with Jim that it just don’t apply to our favorite course in CM. 

[tomauasia]

More lies from a incompetent gov