Miyoshi Country Club

The West Course at Miyoshi Country Club is one of two eighteen-hole layouts at this facility in Nishikamo, located in the hilly terrain of Aichi Prefecture in central Japan. Designed by J. E. Crane, the course reflects the work of an architect active during Japan's golf expansion in the latter half of the twentieth century, when many courses were carved into the country's mountainous landscape to accommodate growing domestic interest in the game. The routing takes advantage of the natural topography characteristic of this region, with elevation changes and wooded corridors typical of Japanese courses built outside major urban centers. The layout moves through forested areas with fairways defined by mature trees, and the terrain creates a variety of approach angles and stances. Water features and bunkering provide strategic elements throughout the design. Miyoshi Country Club serves the Nagoya metropolitan area, positioned roughly between Nagoya and Toyota City in a region known for automotive manufacturing and traditional ceramics. The club operates in the Japanese member-club tradition, with the West Course complementing the facility's other eighteen holes. The course offers a representative example of mid-to-late twentieth-century Japanese golf architecture, where designers worked within constrained and often dramatic terrain to create playable yet challenging layouts for a membership base drawn from the surrounding industrial and commercial centers of central Honshu.