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.

Publisher

Samurai Golf is published by Newbridge Inc., a Tokyo-based media company. Data-controller information is on the Privacy page.

Disclosure

Some links on Samurai Golf are affiliate links. When you buy a product through one of them, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Affiliate relationships do not determine whether a piece is published or which products appear in it.

We do not take affiliate revenue from travel bookings, hotel stays, golf-course reservations, or tour packages. The round is not a commission.

Sponsored editorial is clearly labelled at the top of each sponsored piece. We do not accept payment to alter editorial judgment on unsponsored coverage.