Pine Lake Golf Club

Pine Lake Golf Club has played in Nishiwaki city, near the self-proclaimed geographic center of Japan, since 1984, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. along with Gary Linn and Donald Knott and stretching to 7,034 yards from the black tees. That same design team also created the nearby Golden Valley Golf Club in Nishiwaki, giving the city genuine international design pedigree across two separate courses from a single celebrated architectural partnership. As its name suggests, the layout incorporates both wooded pine corridors and water features, giving golfers a genuinely varied strategic test compared to the more open plains courses found elsewhere in central Hyogo. Nishiwaki's claim to sitting at Japan's geographic center, marking the intersection of the country's longitude and latitude midpoints, gives visitors an additional reason to explore the area beyond golf itself. The course's mid-1980s opening places it within the peak years of Japan's golf construction boom, when American design firms were increasingly active across the country. Golfers seeking a Robert Trent Jones Jr. design in central Hyogo through CoGolfers can pair a round at Pine Lake Golf Club with a visit to the nearby Golden Valley course from the same design team.