Japan Info Swap Blog

The history of golf in Japan stretches back more than a century. The country’s first golf club was established in Kobe by a group of British expats way back in 1903, and the Japan Golf Association was set up one hundred years ago in 1924. Japan’s “golf boom” came in the post-war years and thousands of private courses had been built across the country by the mid-1980s. Although participation in the sport has dropped off a bit since the 1990s, …