Taishi Country Club

Taishi Country Club has operated as a private club in Taishi-cho, in southeastern Osaka prefecture, since 1996, making it one of the more recently built courses in this part of the prefecture, playing 6,379 yards from the back tees over bent grass greens with a 69.7 rating and 119 slope, and additional tee options at 5,830 and 5,165 yards for regular and ladies' play. The club offers caddie service, a driving range and putting green for practice, and an on-site restaurant, with full locker facilities in the clubhouse and acceptance of major credit cards including Visa, American Express, and JCB. Taishi-cho takes its name from Prince Shotoku, known in Japanese as Shotoku Taishi, and the town is home to the Taishi mausoleum cluster, a group of imperial tombs from the Asuka period that draws visitors interested in early Japanese history, giving golfers at Taishi Country Club a genuine historical site to pair with their round. Being built in the mid-1990s, the course reflects more contemporary design and conditioning standards than many of the prefecture's older 1950s and 1960s-era clubs, while still operating with the formal, private-membership structure typical of Japanese golf clubs of any era. The relatively moderate par-71 scorecard makes it an approachable test for a private club, without the extreme length found at some of Osaka's newer resort-style developments. Golfers with access to Taishi Country Club through CoGolfers connections can pair a round with a visit to the nearby imperial tombs, and the community is a good place to find members able to arrange a visit.