Hokkaido Golf Club (Lion)

Overview: The Lion Course at Hokkaido Golf Club is a long, woodland 18-hole routing in Nishikioka, Tomakomai. The current course profile lists par 72 and 7,028 yards from the champion tees, giving the layout the scale of a serious Hokkaido test. The official hole guide shows a mixture of long par fours, reachable and strategic par fives, and par threes that sit within the forest rather than in a featureless open field.

History: The course is part of Hokkaido Golf Club's two-routing facility, but the reviewed current sources do not securely establish the original opening year of this exact Lion layout. The designer attribution is clearer: the current course material identifies Shunsuke Kato. That distinction matters because the directory record names Lion, not the facility as a whole. The profile therefore records the present routing and design evidence without borrowing a date from a different course or from an undated club history.

Did You Know? The official guide's 18th hole finishes with a 425-yard par four and a dry creek before the green. It is a fitting final question for a course that asks for distance but still makes the last approach depend on ground and hazard awareness. The hole is not described as a decorative water feature, so the creek's strategic role is the detail worth carrying into the profile.