Maple Point at Maple Point Golf Club

Maple Point Golf Club occupies mountainous terrain in Uenohara, a town in eastern Yamanashi Prefecture roughly an hour west of Tokyo. The course sits within the forested highlands that characterize this part of central Honshu, where elevation changes and natural topography provide the foundation for Pete Dye's design. Dye, known for his work across Asia during the 1980s and 1990s, brought his characteristic approach to shaping and strategic design to this Japanese site.

The routing moves through varied elevation, with holes that climb and descend across the property's natural contours. Dye's design vocabulary—including railroad ties, strategic bunkering, and forced carries—appears throughout the layout, adapted to the wooded mountain setting. The course requires thoughtful club selection and course management given the elevation changes and the premium Dye typically places on accuracy over distance.

Maple Point serves a membership drawn largely from the Tokyo metropolitan area, reflecting the pattern of resort-style golf clubs in Yamanashi that offer weekend and holiday golf for urban members. The club provides the dining and bathing facilities standard to Japanese golf culture, where the full-day experience extends well beyond the round itself. The course represents one of several Dye designs in Japan from an era when American architects were frequently commissioned to create courses for the country's growing golf market.