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:
Women’s major championships: the month of June sees two women’s majors: the US Women’s Open (June 3-6), with A Lim Kim defending, and the Women’s PGA Championship (June 24-27), with Sei Young Kim defending.
Senior PGA Championship: the revered Southern Hills in Oklahoma hosts the 81st staging of this event (May 27-30); Ken Tanigawa holds the title from its last playing in 2019.
Who's Who:
Phil Mickelson: in winning the 2021 PGA Championship, the world’s most famous “leftie” became the oldest winner of a golf major championship.
Hideki Matsuyama: became the first Japanese professional to win a men’s major championship, when he triumphed in this year’s Masters Tournament.
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.
American Dunes opens for play following Nicklaus transformation
Nicklaus Design has transformed the former Grand Haven Golf Club in Michigan into the American Dunes Golf Club, a new public course that is now open for play
New course opens for play at Barnbougle
Bill Coore designs 14-hole layout with “sporty” holes on dune ridge above Lost Farm (golf carts allowed).
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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