Sennan Country Club

Sennan Country Club, in Sennan city in the Senshu region of southern Osaka prefecture, combines its main 18-hole course, designed by American architect Joe E. Crane and opened in 1960, with an adjoining nine-hole public layout, Sennan Public Course, built in 1978 at the same address, giving the combined facility 27 holes across the property. The main course plays 6,512 yards from the back tees over bent grass greens with a full set of tee options for players of varying skill, while the shorter nine-hole public layout plays 2,508 yards to a par of 35 with a more forgiving 32.1 rating and 84 slope, offering a genuinely different, quicker option for golfers with less time. The main club operates as semi-private with caddie service and a full driving range, while the public nine keeps things simple with cart and club rentals and a shared putting green. Sennan city sits along Osaka Bay in the Senshu region, an area that saw substantial golf development through the 1960s and 1970s as improved rail and road links opened the region up for weekend leisure trips from central Osaka. Having Joe E. Crane, an American designer active in Japan during the country's postwar golf boom, behind the main course gives Sennan a design pedigree shared with several other Kansai-area layouts from the same era. Golfers looking for a choice between a full test and a quicker public round at the same address through CoGolfers can consider Sennan Country Club, and the community is a good place to find others in this part of southern Osaka.