Golf travel
Golf in Malaysia
Malaysia's golf showpiece is Langkawi's Els Club Teluk Datai — an Ernie Els rainforest course threaded between ancient jungle and the Andaman Sea, with sea holes, roaming monkeys and not a single bunker.
Year-round tropical golf; Langkawi is driest and best roughly Dec–March
Malaysia is one of Asia's most rewarding — and best-value — golf destinations, with tropical courses the length of the peninsula and across to Borneo. But its most captivating round sits on the resort island of Langkawi: the Els Club Teluk Datai, an Ernie Els design threaded through millions-of-years-old rainforest down to the Andaman Sea, where monkeys and hornbills share the fairways and there isn't a single bunker on the property.
It's a golf-and-nature experience as much as a golf trip, wrapped inside one of the region's great beach-resort islands. Our Malaysia guide covers the Els Club Teluk Datai: how to play it, the sea and jungle holes that define it, and when to go.