Ukiha Country Club

Ukiha Country Club opened in 1997 in Ukiha city, in the fertile Chikugo river valley of southern Fukuoka prefecture, playing 6,729 yards from the back tees with regular and ladies' tees at 6,248 and 5,348 yards, carrying a 73.1 rating and 123 slope over bent grass greens and Korai grass fairways. The semi-private parkland course offers golf cart and club rental, a driving range, golf simulator, and putting green, giving visitors a way to keep practicing regardless of the weather. Ukiha is well known nationally for its fruit orchards, particularly peaches and grapes, and its well-preserved Edo-period post town of Yoshii, and golfers visiting the course can easily combine a round with a stop at a local fruit farm or a walk through the historic townscape. Being a relatively recent 1997 build, the course benefits from more modern drainage and shaping compared with several of Fukuoka's older 1960s and 1970s clubs. Ukiha's agricultural setting gives the course a genuinely rural, unhurried character quite different from the busier clubs closer to Fukuoka city or Kitakyushu. Golfers planning a Ukiha-area golf and fruit-farm trip through CoGolfers can pair a round here with a stop at one of the area's orchards, and checking the community for local members is a good way to plan the visit.