Lake Views and Quiet Woods at Katayamazu West

Katayamazu Golf Club WEST, known until 2024 as the club's West Course, opened in 1974 near Kaga Onsen in Ishikawa Prefecture. Designed by Hirochika Tomisawa and Junji Shiba, it offers 36 holes over two courses that use the natural landscape. The Inuwashi Course is the strategic one, with views across Lake Kitagata toward Mt. Hakusan and a short hole whose green is completely surrounded by water. The Asunaro Course winds through tree-lined corridors on flatter ground, with scenery that changes with the seasons. Play is in five-seat guided carts with GPS navigation, and the greens are bentgrass.

Two courses framed by forest and water, with Mt. Hakusan on the horizon.

The club is about 4 km from the Kaga IC on the Hokuriku Expressway, around 15 minutes from JR Kaga-Onsen Station and roughly 30 minutes from Komatsu Airport. That puts it next to the Kaga onsen towns of Yamashiro, Yamanaka, Katayamazu and Awara, where ryokan serve Echizen crab in winter and Kutani porcelain studios welcome visitors. Combine a round here with a night in a hot-spring inn and a day in Kanazawa for an easy Hokuriku golf trip.