Japan
Private club
Fukuoka
Shiro Akaboshi
Visitors welcome
Nasushiobara
Kinya Fujita & Seiichi Inoue
Private club
Tokyo
Walter Hagen
Private club
Fukuoka
Osamu Ueda
Private club
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Osamu Ueda
Visitors welcome
Tokyo
Odera / Murakami
Visitors welcome
Chiba
Shunsuke Kato
Private club
Nagoya
Original design by Seiichi Inoue (1954); redesign by Taizo Kawata (2004).
Visitors welcome
Sapporo
Arnold Palmer
Private club
Chiba
Original design by Japanese course architects Rokuro and Shiro Akaboshi (1930); modifications by Brian M. Silva (USA).
Visitors welcome
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Private club
Sapporo
Father-son team of Pete & Perry Dye.
Private club
Gotemba
Original design by Shunsuke Kato (1977); renovation by Rees Jones, working with Hideki Matsuyama (2018).
Ltd access
Tokyo
Seiichi Inoue
Private club
Tokyo
Original design at this location by Mitsuaki Otani (1940).
Private club
Tokyo
East and West courses originally designed by Takeo Aiyama & Hideo Takemura (1960). East course renovated by Kentaro Sato (2001). West renovated by Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2016).
Visitors welcome
Nasushiobara
Robert Trent Jones Snr
Restricted
Chiba
J. Michael Poellot
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).
Private club
Karuizawa
Yuji Kodera
Private club
Miyazaki
Kokichi Ohashi
Private club
Chiba
Taizo Kawata
Private club
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Original design and later modifications by Charles Hugh Alison (1931, 1948). Renovated by Martin Ebert (2018).
Visitors welcome
Niigata
Sho Okubo
Visitors welcome
Okinawa
Unknown
Visitors welcome
Sapporo
Current layout by Kokichi Yasuda (1974); modifications by Damian Pascuzzo.
Visitors welcome
Chiba
Kazusuke Izumi
Ltd access
Nasushiobara
Seiichi Inoue
Visitors welcome
Nasushiobara
Jack Nicklaus & Desmond Muirhead
Private club
Fukushima
Ron Fream
Private club
Chiba
Seiichi Inoue
Visitors welcome
Karuizawa
Shunsuke Kato
Visitors welcome
Karuizawa
All six 18-hole courses at Karuizawa 72 were designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr, and opened in 1972.
Private club
Nagoya
Originally designed by Mitsuaki Otani and Charles H. Alison (1928); modified by Sho Tobari (2010).
Private club
Tokyo
Rokuro Akaboshi
Visitors welcome
Miyazaki
Tom Watson
Visitors welcome
Mito
Kentaro Sato
Private club
Sapporo
Jack Nicklaus
Visitors welcome
Gotemba
Shiro Akaboshi
Visitors welcome
Sapporo
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi
Private club
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Osamu Ueda
Private club
Tokyo
Original design by Yasuda Kokichi (1960); redesign by Taizo Kawata (2004).
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).
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).
Private club
Kitakyushu
Osamu Ueda
Private club
Nagoya
Original design by Osamu Ueda (1964); redesign and improvements by Taizo Kawata (1994, 2006, 2007).
Private club
Mito
Seiichi Inoue
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).
Visitors welcome
Mito
Jack Nicklaus
Visitors welcome
Gotemba
Mitsuaki Otani & Yasuhiko Asaka
Visitors welcome
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Private club
Sapporo
Seiichi Inoue
Private club
Gotemba
Shiro Akaboshi
Private club
Tokyo
Taizo Kawata
Chevron Championship: Carlton Woods near Houston in Texas provides the stage for the first women’s major championship of 2025, where Nelly Korda defends her title. (April 24-27).
Soudal Open: successor to the Belgian Open, the Soudal Open takes place on the quiet, wooded North course of Rinkven Golfclub. Belgian stars Thomas Pieters and Nicolas Colsaerts will be vying for top honours. (May 22-25).
Rory McIlroy: with his 2025 win in The Masters, Rory joined the pantheon of golfing greats who have achieved a career Grand Slam of men’s majors ... Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are the only others in this select band.
Bernhard Langer: he may have played in his last Masters Tournament, but the 67-year-old German will be trying to extend his own record, and win a 13th senior major title at the 36th Regions Tradition. (May 15-18).
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club: With a clubhouse that might befit a Roman Emperor, and a golf course to match, you can be sure of a memorable outing at Rome's most talked about golf facility.
Jim Fazio's original layout was much changed to create a modern Ryder Cup course ... now one of the Eternal City's (and Italy's) most revered.
Here at Prince’s Golf Club you'll find 27 excellent holes of links golf. Just over the fence and sharing similar terrain is Royal St George’s; but Prince’s is far from overshadowed by its venerable neighbour. The three nine-hole loops at Prince's, laid out over gently undulating terrain, are sure to bring a smile of satisfaction to all lovers of links golf.
Stay&Play at Prince's: excellent onsite Lodge accommodation available
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