NEW Ui Golf Club

NEW Ui Golf Club opened in 2000 in Munakata city, one of the newer public courses in this part of Fukuoka, playing 6,906 yards from the back tees with a 73.1 rating and 123 slope over bent grass greens. Multiple tee options ranging from 5,480 to 6,906 yards give the course a workable spread for a broad range of playing ability. The club provides GPS-equipped golf carts, a driving range, and bunker practice area, along with a restaurant, banquet facilities, and locker rooms, and maintains a dress code requesting no jeans or sandals while preferring golfers to wear a hat during play. Munakata city, also home to Genkai Golf Club and Fukuoka Kokusai Country Club at separate addresses, is one of Fukuoka's stronger multi-course golf destinations and is best known nationally for the UNESCO-listed Munakata Taisha shrine complex tied to ancient maritime trade across the Genkai Sea. Being a twenty-first-century build, NEW Ui benefits from more contemporary course construction and drainage than several of its older Munakata neighbors. Golfers visiting Munakata for its shrine heritage through CoGolfers can easily add a round at NEW Ui to the same trip, and the area's concentration of courses makes it worth checking the community for others planning a similar visit.