Tokyo Golf Club

Junnosuke Inoue learned golf in New York and came home wanting a club run by Japanese members; until then, every club in Japan had been founded by foreign residents. He proposed it in 1913, and the course opened at Komazawa in Tokyo the following year. The land was leased, and fifteen years on the rent had risen sevenfold, so in 1932 the club moved to Asaka in Saitama. Charles Alison laid out the new course and Antonín Raymond designed the clubhouse. Then in 1940 the army took Asaka for its preparatory officers' school. The club merged with Chichibu Country Club at Sayama, and the eighteen holes played now opened on 15 December that year.

Every hole here has two greens. The names are the unusual part. One set is Asaka, after the course the army took in 1940. The other is Chichibu, after the club this one merged with to get to Sayama. Play the Asaka greens and the card reads 7,215 yards, rated 74.3; play Chichibu and it is 6,959, rated 73.3 — same tees, same fairways, different targets. Komei Otani's 1940 layout is still the basis of what is there, and Gil Hanse renovated it from 2009 and again in 2018. At the 2024 Japan Open, six holes were played to the Chichibu greens and the other twelve to Asaka.