Sun Royal Golf Club

Sun Royal Golf Club has played in Kato city, within Hyogo's densely packed Banshu golf corridor, since 1988, stretching to 6,956 yards from the championship tees down to 5,306 yards from the ladies' markers. Kato hosts one of the highest concentrations of golf clubs anywhere in the prefecture, and Sun Royal's regal, aspirational name gives it a distinctive identity among the city's many similarly themed courses. The club's late-1980s opening places it among the later arrivals to Kato's already crowded golf landscape, built at the peak of Japan's national golf construction boom with the longer, more contemporary yardages typical of that era. Its wide tee range accommodates a broad mix of playing abilities within the same group. Kato's sheer density of golf facilities makes it possible to play several distinctly different courses within a short drive, and Sun Royal's substantial championship-tee length gives it genuine standing among that competitive field. Having operated for nearly four decades, the course carries a well-established character typical of clubs from this stage of Japan's golf boom. Golfers organizing a Banshu-area golf tour through CoGolfers can add Sun Royal Golf Club to that itinerary.