# JGM Seve Ballesteros Golf Club

> Seve Ballesteros Design

Golf course in Ibaraki. Book through Play Golf Tokyo: https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/courses/jgm-seve-ballesteros-golf-club

## Facts

- **Region:** Ibaraki
- **Address:** 3043 Shika, Inashiki-shi Ibaraki 300-0623
- **Access:** ~75 min by car from tokyo station
- **Type:** parkland
- **Holes / par:** 18 / 72
- **Course rating:** 73.5
- **Length:** B-6,922, R-6,499, F1-6,158, F2-5,796, L-5,214 yards
- **Designer:** Seve Ballesteros, David Thomas
- **Established:** 1984
- **Official website:** https://www.jgmgroup.co.jp/seve/
- **Tags:** Ibaraki, 18 Holes, Parkland, Hilly Course, Lake View, Mountain Views, Water Hazards, Championship Course, Public Course, Visitors Welcome, Near Tokyo, Near Narita Airport, Seve Ballesteros Design

## Good to know

- **Bath:** Large bath
- **Carts:** 5-seat remote-controlled riding carts with GPS navigation
- **Greens:** Bent
- **Booking:** Online booking with a free JGM account; single-player bookings by phone only
- **Dress Code:** Metal spikes not allowed
- **Shuttle Bus:** No shuttle bus; about 15 min by car from Inashiki IC (Ken-O Expressway)
- **Rental Clubs:** Available (clubs and shoes)
- **Practice Range:** 20 bays, 270 y

## About the course

In 1984, Seve Ballesteros, one of the most creative and instinctive golfers ever to play the game, turned his hand to course design in Japan. The result is a big, ambitious layout in Ibaraki Prefecture that reflects Seve's boldness: 7,033 yards from the back tees, imaginative bunkering, and risk-reward decisions built into the architecture at every turn. This is a course that rewards the brave and punishes the reckless, very much in the spirit of the man who designed it.

### Seven thousand yards of Seve's imagination: _dramatic, demanding, and completely his own._

For golf history enthusiasts, playing Seve Ballesteros Golf Club is a rare opportunity to walk a course shaped by one of the sport's all-time greats. The design reflects Seve's own playing philosophy: wide enough to invite aggression, but with enough trouble around greens and at key decision points to make conservative play equally valid. Located in Inashiki, Ibaraki, it sits within reach of Tokyo and offers a genuinely distinctive experience that most public golfers in Japan will never have on their radar. That is precisely why it deserves to be on yours.

## Play here

- **Request a tee time:** https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/courses/jgm-seve-ballesteros-golf-club#request (or with an AI assistant through the Play Golf Tokyo MCP server: https://mcp.play-golf-tokyo.com/mcp). Send preferred dates, time of day, format and players; our team books with the club in Japanese and emails the confirmation.
- **Open rounds to join:** https://www.play-golf-tokyo.com/community
- Green fees are paid at the club on the day.