Golden Valley Golf Club

Golden Valley Golf Club has operated in Nishiwaki city, near the geographic center of Hyogo prefecture, since 1987, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. along with Gary Linn and Donald Knott, and stretching to a substantial 7,233 yards from the Jones tee. That design team brings genuine international pedigree to this stretch of central Hyogo, part of the wave of American-designed courses built in Japan during the late-1980s golf boom at its peak. Nishiwaki is known as the self-proclaimed geographic center of Japan, sitting at the intersection of the country's longitude and latitude midpoints, a quirky claim to fame that draws its own share of visitors independent of golf. The course's substantial length from the back markers makes it one of the more genuinely challenging tests in this part of the prefecture. Central Hyogo's position roughly equidistant from Kobe, Himeji, and the prefecture's northern coast makes Nishiwaki a convenient stop for golfers touring multiple regions. Golfers seeking a Robert Trent Jones Jr. design in the heart of Hyogo through CoGolfers can look for Golden Valley Golf Club specifically, and the community is a good place to find others interested in the area's internationally designed layouts.