Izumigaoka Golf Club

Izumigaoka Golf Club, in the Minami ward of Sakai city on Osaka's southern edge, operates three nine-hole courses named Iwawaki, Kongo, and Katsuragi, each taking its name from peaks or ranges visible in the surrounding Izumi mountain range along the Osaka-Nara-Wakayama border. The three nines combine in pairs to produce full eighteen-hole rounds consistently playing to par 72, split as 36 out and 36 in regardless of which pairing is used, giving the club 27 holes total across its hillside property. The Izumi range that lends the club its name and its individual course names forms a natural boundary between Osaka and its neighboring prefectures, giving the layout genuine elevation change and mountain views uncommon this close to the dense urban core further north in Sakai. The club sits in close proximity to both Sakai Country Club and World Country Golf Club, giving this corner of southeastern Osaka a small but genuine cluster of golf facilities set into the same mountainous terrain. Sakai itself is one of Japan's oldest port cities, with a merchant history stretching back to the medieval period, though Izumigaoka's location in the city's rural southern reaches feels far removed from that urban, historical core. The consistent par-72 scoring across all three of Izumigaoka's pairings keeps handicap tracking straightforward no matter which combination a visitor plays. Golfers exploring the hill courses along Osaka's southern border through CoGolfers can consider Izumigaoka Golf Club, and the community is a good place to find others interested in this mountainous stretch of the prefecture.