About Samurai Golf

What we publish

Samurai Golf is a quiet publication on Japanese golf culture — the courses carved into mountain rice terraces, the workshops that still forge irons by hand, and the gear that ages into something worth keeping.

We write about place and craft more than score. A round at Kawana in the fog. A cast iron head polished over three decades at Endo. The grain of a persimmon driver that outlived its owner. These are the things the game leaves behind, and the things we think are worth writing down.

What we don't publish is as deliberate as what we do. No product ranking listicles. No brand anniversaries without a story. No news written because the news happened.

The four lenses

Every story here sits under one of four lenses.

History — where a course, a club, a technique came from, and what that origin still asks of us.

Craftsman — the person at the bench, the tools that have not changed in forty years, and the reasons they still work.

Material — what a club is made of, how the earth enters the game, and why weight and grain matter.

Reinterpretation — the quiet liberty of reading Japanese golf through a different season, generation, or frame.

Our quiet rules

Three rules we keep to ourselves.

We do not take affiliate fees from travel, hotel, or tee-time bookings. The round is not a commission.

We do not run product rankings. A good iron is a good iron; a list will not make it better.

We do not write about a brand because the brand wants us to. We write because a story asked for us.

Sister journal

Samurai Golf is published by Newbridge Inc., alongside Tokyo Golf Fashion — a parallel editorial on how Tokyo dresses for the course. The two publications share a publisher, not a subject. Courses, craft, and stillness live here. Cloth, wardrobe, and the discipline of dressing live there.