Kasumigaseki Country Club, East Course

Snow used to wreck the East Course's greens, so the club built a second one on every hole, all 36 of them: one sown with korai grass for warm weather, one with bent grass for cold. The club is older than that fix. Shohei Hotchi, head of an established family at Kasahata, wanted a course on his land; the designer Kinya Fujita and the player Shiro Akaboshi judged the site right for one. Work began in the spring of 1929, and the East Course was finished on 147 acres eight months later. The opening ceremony was on 6 October, with 310 members. It was the first golf course in Saitama.

Charles Alison surveyed the property in December 1930 and left his assistant George Penglase to run the work. The bunkers cut then — East No. 10 among them — are the Alison bunkers, and the club says they gained a reputation for difficulty. The West Course opened on 12 June 1932, giving Japan its first 36-hole club. In October 1957 the fifth Canada Cup was played here and Japan won it, Torakichi Nakamura taking the individual title and the team with Koichi Ono. The Fazio remodel of October 2016 left one green where two had stood. At the Olympics in 2021, Xander Schauffele won the men's gold and Nelly Korda the women's; the bronze took a seven-man playoff, settled on the fourth extra hole by Pan Cheng-tsung of Chinese Taipei.