Japan
Private club
Chiba
Private club
Nagoya
Visitors welcome
Chiba
Visitors welcome
Okinawa
Private club
Fukushima
Restricted
Chiba
Private club
Tokyo
Visitors welcome
Gotemba
Private club
Tokyo
Private club
Nagoya
Visitors welcome
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Visitors welcome
Gotemba
Visitors welcome
Nasushiobara
Private club
Gotemba
Private club
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Original design and later modifications by Charles Hugh Alison (1931, 1948).
Private club
Sapporo
Private club
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
East course designed by David Hood of Scotland (1923); renovated by Charles H. Alison (1930). West course designed by Seiichi Inoue (1960); completely redesigned by Rees Jones and Bryce Swanson (2011).
Visitors welcome
Mito
Visitors welcome
Karuizawa
All six 18-hole courses at Karuizawa 72 were designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr, and opened in 1972.
Private club
Karuizawa
Visitors welcome
Karuizawa
Private club
Tokyo
East course: designed by Kinya Fujita and Shiro Akaboshi (1929), with five holes redesigned by Charles "Hugh" Alison (1930). Modifications made by Taizo Kawata (1998) and a wide-ranging renovation made by Logan Fazio (son of Tom Fazio) in 2015.
West course: designed by Kinya Fujita and Seiichi Inoue (1929); modified by Taizo Kawata (1992).
Rsrt guests only
Ito
Fuji course: designed by Charles Hugh Alison (1936).
Oshima course: one of Japan's oldest courses; designed by Mitsuaki Otani (1928).
Private club
Fukuoka
Private club
Fukuoka
Private club
Tokyo
Private club
Nagoya
Originally designed by Mitsuaki Otani and Charles H. Alison (1928); modified by Sho Tobari (2010).
Private club
Chiba
Private club
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Current course designed in 1927 by club members - the Crane brothers (Joe E., Harry C. and Bertie E. Crane). Later modifications drawn up by Charles Hugh Alison (1930).
Visitors welcome
Nasushiobara
Visitors welcome
Nasushiobara
Visitors welcome
Niigata
Ltd access
Nasushiobara
Visitors welcome
Sapporo
Visitors welcome
Sapporo
Private club
Mito
Private club
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Osamu Ueda
Private club
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Visitors welcome
Sapporo
Private club
Miyazaki
Kokichi Ohashi
Visitors welcome
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Ltd access
Tokyo
Private club
Tokyo
Visitors welcome
Tokyo
Private club
Sapporo
Private club
Sapporo
Seiichi Inoue
Private club
Kitakyushu
Osamu Ueda
Visitors welcome
Chiba
Private club
Gotemba
Original design by Shunsuke Kato (1977); renovation by Rees Jones, working with Hideki Matsuyama (2018).
Private club
Chiba
Private club
Tokyo
Original design at this location by Mitsuaki Otani (1940).
Visitors welcome
Miyazaki
Visitors welcome
Mito
Private club
Tokyo
Tournaments:
PGA Championship: the year’s second men’s major championship is hosted by Southern Hills CC, Tulsa, Oklahoma, amidst doubt as to whether reigning champion Phil Mickelson will defend his title (May 19-22).
Soudal Open: Belgium’s return to European Tour golf sees 36-hole Rinkven International GC host the Soudal Open, the country’s national open championship (May 12-15).
Who's Who:
Scottie Scheffler: bags the 2022 Masters Tournament title, and with it a fourth win in six starts on the PGA Tour and his first major championship victory.
Stephen Dodd: took the European Senior Tour’s 2021 Order of Merit honours following the abandonment due to rain of the season’s final event, the MCB Tour Championship – Mauritius (April 1-3, 2022).
Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses in Europe. From France to Spain to the Netherlands and Norway, the Golf World Top 100 panel reveals the places you have to play (published 20 October 2021).
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club "makes its tournament debut with the hosting of the Italian Open on the European Tour" by Richard Humphreys
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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