West One's Country Club

West One's Country Club has played in the Kamimikusa district of Kato city since 1993, designed by father-and-son architects Pete Dye and Perry Dye, and stretching to 7,077 yards from the black tees. The Dye family design pedigree brings one of golf architecture's most distinctive and influential styles directly to this stretch of Hyogo's Banshu corridor, known internationally for strategically demanding bunkering and railroad-tie style features that set Pete Dye's body of work apart from more conventional Japanese course design. Kato hosts one of the highest concentrations of golf clubs anywhere in the prefecture, and West One's Country Club's Dye pedigree gives it genuine international standing within that crowded field. Having opened in 1993, the course arrived at the tail end of Japan's major golf construction boom, incorporating the more contemporary conditioning standards typical of that period. Its substantial length from the black tees gives the layout real teeth for accomplished golfers seeking a true championship test. Golfers seeking a Pete Dye and Perry Dye design within Hyogo's Banshu golf corridor through CoGolfers can look specifically for West One's Country Club, and the community is a good place to find others touring the area's internationally designed layouts.