Kumihama Country Club

Kumihama Country Club has operated as a semi-private, links-style course in Kyotango city, on Kyoto prefecture's rugged Sea of Japan coastline, since 1973, playing 6,551 yards from the championship tees down to 6,137 yards from the regular markers, with a 73.1 rating and 123 slope. The club offers golf cart and pull cart rentals, a putting green, and a restaurant and lounge, and permits walking for golfers who want to take in the coastal scenery at their own pace, accepting JCB, Visa, and American Express. Kyotango sits on the San'in Coast, one of Japan's more rugged and less-visited coastlines, known for its dramatic cliffs, the nearby Tango Peninsula, and Kumihama Bay itself, giving the club a genuinely different, wilder seaside character compared with the inland courses clustered around Kyoto city several hours to the south. The links-style design at Kumihama makes deliberate use of the coastal terrain and exposure to sea winds, a design approach relatively uncommon among Kyoto prefecture's largely inland, wooded golf courses. Being one of the more remote clubs within the prefecture, Kumihama offers a genuinely different golf trip from the temple-adjacent courses further south. Golfers looking for coastal, links-style golf on Kyoto's northern shore through CoGolfers can consider Kumihama Country Club, and the community is a good place to find others willing to make the trip out to this scenic stretch of coastline.