The Taiheiyo Nakita golf club is one of the finest examples of golfing legend Gary Players designs.
Set in the beautiful surroundings of marshes and groves, with a stunning mountain backdrop Taiheiyo Nakita Golf Club is blessed with an incredibly natural and unassuming quality.
Player has built a course design portfolio crammed full of wonderful, world class designs and Nakita is no different. Large swathes of rolling, natural terrain blend seamlessly into the surroundings, almost improving on what mother-nature had already put there.
Measuring 6581-yards the course has a par of 72. Mid-length the course defends itself against even the longest players with bunkers, mounding and water hazards expertly placed to force the golfer to avoid them, this is the skill of Player´s design here.
Blessed with soil and topography supremely suited to a golf course and designed by Gary Player, who won all four of the world's major golf championships, this course quickly became referred to as one of the most memorable in Japan. The holes make use of the level marshes and plains that curve subtly among small groves. Player has said, “Lots of places seemed to be asking to be hole locations from the very start. There was practically no need to shave off mountains or move masses of earth. Just standing there, I could envision a hole and then plan it. I had no idea such a wonderful location still existed in Japan.