Honshu, Jeju & The Mainland
Japan & South Korea
Ceremony, precision, and two green cultures kept like gardens.
On Japan & South Korea
The great Japanese clubs are studies in restraint. We arrange the introductions and pair the golf with ryokan stays, private teahouses, and the quiet cities between.
Korea adds coastal architecture of a very high order and a design pedigree that has bloomed over the last twenty years. A journey for those who have already been everywhere else, and still want more.
From the notebook
No two journeys share an itinerary. These are the places we return to, and the ones we send people to when they trust us.
- Kawana, Fuji CourseJapanJapan's Pebble Beach, pines and Pacific and Fuji beyond.
- Taiheiyo Club GotembaJapanTournament golf in Fuji's morning shadow.
- Yokohama Country ClubJapanA modern restoration the cognoscenti rate highly.
- Phoenix, MiyazakiJapanThe resort classic of Japan's south, tournament host for half a century.
- South CapeSouth KoreaKorea's coastal masterpiece. The clubhouse alone deserves a pilgrimage.
- Haesley Nine BridgesSouth KoreaArchitecture lover's golf under a remarkable timber roof.
And more we argue about.
Off the course
- The drinkA sake brewery tasting in Kyoto's Fushimi district, a Japanese whisky bar with a thousand bottles, and soju where soju belongs.
- The waterAn onsen ryokan night on the Izu Peninsula after Kawana, and Jeju's volcanic coast where the haenyeo divers still work the sea.
- The tableOmakase at the counter in Tokyo, kaiseki in Kyoto, Korean barbecue done properly in Seoul, and bindaetteok at Gwangjang Market.
- For the non-playersKyoto's temples at dawn before the crowds, a tea ceremony, the ceramics towns, and Seoul's palaces and markets at full tilt.
A week here, roughly
Tokyo or Osaka as the gateway, golf and temples in alternation, the bullet train doing the miles. A ryokan night mid-trip resets everything. Korea adds three days and South Cape justifies every one. Bow to your caddie. She has already read the green.
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