Windsor Park Golf & Country Club (WPGCC)

WPGCC is the latest home of the Scandinavian Cup. It has been used once in the tournament’s history (May 2005) and is the scheduled course for the May 2006 2-Day tournament.

WPGCC is a lovely park style course located near Mito in Ibaraki Prefecture. It has rather wide fairways, low cut rough, and huge greens. The course Par is 72, 6155 yards from White Tee and is not that difficult, save for the green that are nearly PGA sized! You can check out the course layout at the WPGCC homepage.

Directions:

- Go on Joban Expressway from Tokyo (roughly 80 km).
- Turn off at Mito I.C.
- The course is approximately 20 km from the I.C., see map here.

Until further notice, all future tournaments will be played at WPGCC.

Please feel free to enter your comments about this course in the allocated space below!

Some online information on Windsor Golf & CC:

Official Homepage of WPGCC (English)
Official Homepage of WPGCC (Japanese)
FCCJ-SCCJ Autumn 2005 golf competition at WPGCC
Online booking at Golfdigest.co.jp
Golf in Japan feature on WPGCC

Fujizakura Country Club

Fujizakura Country Club has been the tournament course for the most Scandinavian Cup’s throughout the competition’s history.

It is a forest course located in Yamanashi Prefecture near Mt.Fuji. The course is also home to a competition on the Japanese Pro Golf Tour, the Fujisankei Classic and is thus a very highly regarded course in the Japanese golfing community.

The course is Par 72, 6355 yards from White Tee and is fairly difficult with its rather long Par 4’s being the main challenge for us amteur golfers. There is a course guide and an overall view of the course on the official homepage (see link below).

Directions:

- Go on Chuo Expressway from Tokyo (roughly 93 km).
- Turn off at Kawaguchiko I.C.
- The course is approximately 6 km from the I.C., see map here.

Some online information on Fujizakura Country Club:

Official Homepage (Japanese)
Fujisankei Classic Homepage (Japanese)
Booking information (Japanese)
Golf in Japan feature on Fujizakura
Hot Shots Golf Fore! for PS2 featuring Fujizakura