Izumi Golf Club

Izumi Golf Club has operated as a semi-private facility in Izumi city, at Kagoshima's northern edge near the Kumamoto border, since 1963, playing 6,445 yards from the back tees with a 70.7 rating and 121 slope, a comparatively approachable length relative to some of the prefecture's longer championship courses. Three tee options, down to 5,410 yards for the ladies, keep the course workable across a range of playing ability. Facilities include golf carts, caddies, a driving range, restaurant, and banquet facilities, and the club accepts JCB and UC credit cards. Izumi city is internationally recognized as one of the largest wintering grounds for cranes in the world, with tens of thousands of hooded and white-naped cranes migrating from Siberia and China each winter, drawing birdwatchers from around the globe to the surrounding rice paddies. Golfers visiting Izumi Golf Club during the winter months can easily combine their round with a visit to the crane observation center, a genuinely distinctive natural spectacle found nowhere else in Japan at this scale. Having operated for six decades, the club carries a settled, well-established character. Golfers planning an Izumi crane-watching and golf trip through CoGolfers can pair both activities, and the community is a good place to find local company.