Championship golf on the Yufutsu plain

Hayakita Country Club, known until recently as ANA Diamond Golf Club, opened in September 1991 in the rolling hills of Abira town, south of Sapporo. Designed by Hirochika Tomizawa, its 36 holes are split into two 18-hole courses. The North Wing, built with professional tournaments in mind, is long and wide-open and reaches 7,170 yards from the championship tees. The South Wing is shorter but packed with natural undulation, and creeks and ponds bring strategy to both. Bent greens, native forest and views across the Yufutsu plain toward the Pacific complete the picture. It hosted the Japan Golf Tour's Mitsubishi Galant Tournament in 1994 and the Sapporo Open in 2005, and later the ANA Princess Cup on the JLPGA Step Up Tour.

Wide skies, primeval forest and big Hokkaido fairways, just twenty minutes from the airport.

Its location makes it ideal for an arrival or departure day: New Chitose Airport is about 20 minutes by car, and Sapporo is around an hour away. Summer in Hokkaido brings cool, low-humidity golf weather, and the season runs until the course closes for winter. After the round, the clubhouse has a newly renovated Finnish-style sauna. The surrounding area is home to Lake Shikotsu and the hot springs of Noboribetsu, an easy drive away, and Abira is known for horse farms and fresh local produce.