Yomiuri Country Club

Yomiuri Country Club sits in the hills above Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, positioned between Osaka and Kobe in the Kansai region. The course was designed through the collaborative efforts of Osamu Ueda, Nagato Yoichi, and Norio Suzuki, reflecting the mid-century period when Japanese golf architecture often involved multiple designers working together on ambitious projects. The layout takes advantage of the natural terrain common to this part of Japan, where courses typically navigate hillsides and valleys with significant elevation changes. The routing moves through forested slopes and offers views across the surrounding landscape toward Osaka Bay. Like many Japanese courses of its era, Yomiuri incorporates design elements that balance strategic challenge with the constraints of mountainous topography, resulting in holes that often play uphill or downhill with fairways carved through mature trees. The course serves a membership drawn from the greater Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area, one of Japan's most densely populated and economically significant regions. Yomiuri Country Club operates within the traditions of Japanese private club golf, where attention to course conditioning and service standards remains central to the member experience. The club has hosted regional competitions and remains part of the network of established courses that define golf in the Kansai area, contributing to a golf culture in Japan that emphasizes both the sporting and social dimensions of the game.