Ohotsuku Country Club

Overview: Ohotsuku Country Club occupies a coastal site at Kitahama in Abashiri, with the Sea of Okhotsk, the Shiretoko Peninsula and the Tofutsu Lake area shaping the views. The current official course information describes an 18-hole layout with a hill-style outward side and a woodland inward side, while the current course data gives par 72 and 6,684 yards from the back tees. The land is relatively flat and the fairways are broad, but that visual openness is balanced by frequent right-side out of bounds. A player who starts the ball carelessly to the right can turn an inviting hole into a recovery problem very quickly.

History: A current golf-course guide records the club's opening on 3 September 1966 and credits Tsukasa Saito and Yuzo Konosu as the designers. The present official site shows the same Abashiri address, an operating 2026 season and a course that continues to be presented as a seaside part of Hokkaido golf. Its long local history sits alongside current course and clubhouse updates, so the profile keeps the historical design credit while using the newer official yardage for the active routing.

Did You Know? The current course information points to holes 5, 11 and 14 as especially rewarding viewpoints, with Mount Shari, Lake Tofutsu and the Sea of Okhotsk entering the visual frame. The club also notes that foxes, squirrels and deer may appear around the course. Here, the wildlife is not a marketing abstraction: it is part of the open coastal landscape that the routing crosses.