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| Club Name | Tokyo Golf Club |
| Designer | Charles Hugh Alison, Kohmyo Ohtani, Gil Hanse, Desmond Muirhead |
| Par | 72 |
| Type | Parkland Course |
| Length | 7,215 |
| Club Address | 1984 Kashiwabara Sayama-shi, Saitama 350-1335 Japan |
Tokyo Golf Club is located in Sayama City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, around ninety minutes northwest of central Tokyo. Founded in 1913 by Junnosuke Inoue after he encountered the game in New York, it is the oldest golf club in Japan. The club has occupied three sites: it opened at Komazawa in Tokyo in 1914, moved to Asaka in Saitama in 1932 with a new course by English architect Charles Hugh Alison, and settled at its present Sayama location in 1940, where Japanese architect Kohmyo Ohtani built the current course based on Alison’s design principles after the Asaka land was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army.
The course plays 18 holes, par 72, at approximately 7,215 yards, over parkland terrain shaped by mature forest. It retains the traditional Japanese practice of two greens on every hole, named Asaka and Chichibu after the club’s earlier locations, with the club alternating which set is in play. Gil Hanse prepared a master plan for the club in 2009 and renovated the Asaka green complexes, following earlier alterations by Desmond Muirhead in 1987.
Tokyo Golf Club has hosted multiple Japan Open Golf Championships and Japan Amateur Championships and is widely regarded as one of the most significant clubs in Japanese golf history. It is a strictly private members’ club, considered among the most difficult courses in Japan to access, and visitors may only play when accompanied by a member.
The course at Tokyo Golf Club follows the routing Kohmyo Ohtani built in 1940 on the design principles Alison had established for the club’s earlier Asaka layout, and his influence defines the round from the first tee. Deep, steep-faced bunkers, now known throughout Japan as Alison bunkers after their origin here, guard fairways and greens across the course, demanding accurate positioning rather than raw length. The parkland setting, framed by tall trees separating the holes, gives the course a settled, mature character consistent with its status as one of the country’s oldest layouts.
The two-green system is the course’s defining structural feature. Each hole carries an Asaka green and a Chichibu green, a legacy of the era when Japanese clubs needed separate putting surfaces suited to summer and winter grass conditions. The club alternates which green is in play, meaning the course presents a genuinely different test depending on the day, with green shape, size and surrounding bunkering varying between the two options on several holes.
Among the course’s more memorable holes, the 11th is a short par four with a sharply elevated green protected by classic Alison bunkering, rewarding a precise approach over raw power. The 17th is a downhill par three that places a premium on hitting the green directly, with any miss leaving a difficult recovery. The course sits near a Japanese Air Force base, and it is not unusual for fighter jets to pass overhead during a round, a detail golfers who have played historic seaside links such as Royal Dornoch will find familiar in spirit if not setting.
Conditioning reflects the club’s standing as a leading private course, with Gil Hanse’s 2009 master plan sharpening bunker edges and green surrounds while preserving the heritage character of Ohtani and Alison’s original work. The overall experience is one of restrained, strategic golf, shaped by nearly a century of continuous design history, and regarded by many overseas visitors fortunate enough to play it as one of the purest surviving links to the Alison era of Japanese course architecture.
The clubhouse at Tokyo Golf Club serves members and their accompanied guests, with dining facilities available before and after rounds. Locker rooms and changing facilities are provided for golfers preparing for play.
As a strictly private members’ club with limited guest access, Tokyo Golf Club does not operate public-facing amenities such as a pro shop or equipment hire in the manner of a resort course, and access to on-site facilities generally requires member sponsorship. There is no accommodation on site; golfers typically base themselves in central Tokyo and treat a round at the club as a day trip into Saitama.
Given the club’s private status, visitors should confirm current facility access and any practice or amenity arrangements directly through their member host or a specialist golf travel operator well in advance of a planned visit, as policies and offerings are subject to change.
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