Naruo Golf Club

In 1927 the members lost half their course. Naruo had been founded at Naruohama in 1920 and reached a full eighteen holes in 1924, but economic pressure cut it back to nine. Three members — the brothers Joe E., Harry C. and Bertie E. Crane — spent their weekends inspecting candidate sites all over Kansai until they found the hills at Kawanishi in Hyōgo, where the present course opened in 1930. In 1967 Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer played the last of three exhibition matches here, after Kasumigaseki's East Course and the Nagoya Golf Club's Wago Course; TBS organised the series.

Harry Crane wanted a famous architect to vouch for what the brothers had built. Charles Alison was in Japan in 1930 to design the Asaka course for the Tokyo Golf Club, and worked at Hirono and Kawana as well, so Crane asked him to survey Naruo. Alison spent a full week on it early in 1931. His report said the skeleton used the site's features well and needed no changes — then set out detailed recommendations for improving sixteen of the eighteen holes. Those recommendations are essentially the course now. When the Japan Senior Open came here in 2010 and again in 2020, the field played a layout the brothers had built and Alison had only edited.