Akane Golf Club

Akane Golf Club has operated as a semi-private facility in Chikuho town since 1984, playing a substantial 7,125 yards from the championship tees with a 73.6 rating and 131 slope, making it one of the longer, more demanding tests among Fukuoka's inland courses. Ladies' tees at 5,613 yards keep the round accessible for a broader range of players despite the course's serious back-tee length. The club welcomes public play and offers golf cart and club rental, a practice bunker, and putting green to warm up before heading out, along with a restaurant and meeting space suited to a golf society outing. Chikuho is part of Fukuoka's former coal-mining belt, an area that has reinvented itself over recent decades with a mix of agriculture and light industry, giving golfers visiting the region a genuine sense of the prefecture beyond its coastal cities. The course's considerable length rewards players who can carry the ball a long way off the tee, and the rating gap between the championship and forward tees is wide enough that groups of very different abilities can still post comparable scores relative to par. Akane has built a loyal following among stronger local players specifically because of its championship-scale scorecard. Golfers using CoGolfers to plan a Kaho-area trip should flag Akane if they want a longer test, and it is worth checking the community for local members who know the course's demanding back tees well before attempting them.