Chiba Country Club Noda Course

Overview: Chiba Country Club's Noda Course is a woodland routing of 18 holes and par 72 in Noda, north of Tokyo. It opened in 1954, was designed by Kinya Fujita and is listed at 6,767 yards from the back tees. The course is known for the quality and maturity of its tree-lined setting: the ground is relatively flat, but the small, elevated greens and surrounding bunkers make the approach game more exacting than the broad corridors initially suggest. It is a private club course with a formal, traditional rhythm.

History: Noda was the first of Chiba Country Club's three distinct routings, later joined by the 27-hole Kawama Course and the 18-hole Umesato Course. The official club now describes more than 70 years of history and records Japan Open, Japan Women's Open and Japan Senior Open connections across the club. Noda's identity is therefore best understood as the original course in a multi-course institution, not as a loose label for every Chiba CC layout.

Did You Know? Golf Digest describes Noda as one of Japan's early courses to be called a woodland course, with pine forest lining both sides of the fairways. The impression from the tee can be deceptively calm because the terrain is flat. Once the ball reaches the green, the raised putting surfaces and guarding bunkers make precision the deciding skill.