Shin Chitose Country Club (Hamanasu)

Overview: Hamanasu is one of the two 18-hole routings at Shin Chitose Country Club in Chitose, east of New Chitose Airport. The current PGM hole guide totals 6,874 yards from the blue tees and par 72. The scorecard moves through two balanced nines, with long par fives, several full-length par fours and par threes that change the rhythm. It is a substantial airport-area round, not a short add-on course.

History: Hamanasu is documented by the current PGM operator as an active course alongside Horoka. The reviewed sources publish the present hole-by-hole routing and tee distances but do not provide a reliable original opening date or architect for this exact course. That missing history is recorded plainly here rather than filled from the wider facility or from the paired Horoka routing. The current identity and operating evidence are nevertheless clear enough for a separate profile.

Did You Know? Hamanasu's seventeenth hole stretches to 581 yards from the blue tee and is followed by a 380-yard par four on the eighteenth. That closing sequence gives the scorecard a useful personality: even after a full round, the course asks for distance and concentration rather than finishing with a token short hole.