Courses

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Portraits of Japan's standing courses. Full entries pair with the Japanese Golf Courses Pinterest board.

Kasumigaseki East: Between Two Wars

Opened in 1929 on the Kanto plain and reopened after the war, the East at Kasumigaseki is the course Japanese championship golf grew up on — and the one the 2020 Olympics finally returned to.
Kawana Fuji: The Cliff, The Fuji, The Pause

Alison's Fuji course at Kawana, opened in 1936 on the Izu headland — cliff, Pacific, and Mt. Fuji on a clear morning. A warmer touch than Hirono, on a more dramatic site.
Hirono: Alison's Breathing Routing

Charles H. Alison's 1932 Hirono, in the hills north of Kobe — a routing that reads Rokko's ridgelines as composition rather than constraint, and still plays the way he drew it.