Kobe Golf Club

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The Kobe Golf Club overlooks the Inland Sea.
The Kobe Golf Club overlooks the Inland Sea.
Kobe Golf Club's location on Mount Rokko leads to an exceptionally hilly playing environment.
Kobe Golf Club's location on Mount Rokko leads to an exceptionally hilly playing environment.

The Kobe Golf Club (神戸ゴルフ倶楽部 Kōbe Golf Club?) is Japan's first golf course, built on Mount Rokko in 1903 by English expatriate Arthur Hasketh Groom.[1] The club began as a nine-hole course on May 24, 1903, but quickly expanded to eighteen the following year. Kobe Golf Club now boasts two full eighteen-hole courses, Maya (摩耶?) and Suma (須磨?), both sharing names of nearby regions (Mount Maya, in the Rokko Mountain Range, and Suma-ku in Kobe, respectively).[2]

Strict rules are enforced to maintain the course's pristine condition such as a prohibition of golf carts and a limit of eight clubs per player. As the course was literally carved out of a mountain, it can be quite demanding and clubs are carried in canvas bags to reduce the strain on caddies.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Golf Club Atlas - "Gliding Past Fuji - C.H. Alison in Japan", retrieved February 16, 2007
  2. ^ Shin Nihon Kanko Group - "Kobe Golf Club: Course Layout" (Japanese), retrieved February 16, 2007.
  3. ^ Hassan, Sally. (April 9, 1989). "Where Japan Opened a Door To the West". New York Times., retrieved from New York Times Website on February 16, 2007.

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Coordinates: 34°45′30″N, 135°14′17″E

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