Sapporo Elm Country Club (West Left)

Overview: The West scorecard runs to 6,806 yards, with a par of 72 across its eighteen holes. It shares the Eniwa club's broad hill-parkland setting with East, but it is a separate routing with its own sequence of fairways, greens and hazards. Wooded edges frame many holes, while the rolling ground makes the quality of the next lie important after a tee shot that appears to have found the fairway.

History: Current course information attributes the 36-hole facility to Akira Hotsuchi. The reviewed material does not securely establish the original opening year, so the date is deliberately left unfilled. The reliable part of the club's current identity is its East/West structure and the continuing use of two complete 18-hole routes. That is enough to describe West accurately without manufacturing a chronology from an anniversary document.

Did You Know? West's championship yardage is 51 yards longer than East's, but the more useful distinction is that the two courses are not alternate tee settings of one layout. West Left and West Right in the directory are alternate records for this same West routing, so the Left row is used as the canonical profile and the Right row is held. The club's wider facility also records 148 bunkers and five water holes, reminders that accuracy remains central.