Hokkaido Poroto Golf Club

Overview: Hokkaido Poroto Golf Club is an 18-hole course in Shiraoi where Mount Tarumae, the Pacific Ocean and Lake Poroto form the visual setting. The official site describes a dynamic championship-style layout with a strategic Out course and a more forceful, challenging In course. Current course information records par 72 and 7,098 yards, with Seizo Tomizawa identified as designer. It is a natural fit for the New Chitose and Noboribetsu golf corridor because the course combines a serious round with the wider landscape and hot-spring character of southern Hokkaido.

History: The current identity has changed names over time, and the opening-year evidence reviewed for this profile is not consistent enough to publish a single date safely. What is clear from the current official operation is the course’s continuing role as a full 18-hole golf destination in Shiraoi, with the club presenting the layout together with its on-site mol hot spring. The present profile therefore records the stable course facts and landscape rather than turning a conflicting historical date into false precision.

Did You Know? Poroto’s golf story does not end at the 18th green. The official site highlights a flowing mol hot spring on the property, described as a rare Hokkaido example and part of the post-round experience. On the course itself, the club frames the Out holes around strategic decisions and the In holes around bold challenges, so the name Poroto is associated with both the lake landscape and a deliberately varied two-part test.