Japan is home to some of the world’s most breathtaking scenery and beautiful golf courses. The country features some incredibly well-maintained and unique layouts, each with its renowned cultural ...

Hisako “Chako” Higuchi won the 1977 LPGA Championship (now KPMG Women’s PGA) to become the first Japanese player to win an LPGA major. There wasn’t another until Hinako Shibuno stunned the world by ...

Max McGreevy is the defending champion on the Japan Golf Tour. But he's at Sea Island for the PGA Tour finale.

Nasa Hataoka won a rain-shortened Toto Japan Classic in a playoff, but the tournament's chaotic finish raises questions about golf's weather contingencies.

The LPGA Tour makes its final stop in Asia for 2025 at Seta Golf Course, and the timing couldn't be more critical. With only three regular-season events left before the CME Group Tour Championship, ...

Nasa Hataoka won a play-off on Sunday to claim her seventh LPTA Tour title at Toto Japan Classic; The final 18 holes were ...

Golf can take you many places, but for Bill Kerdyk Jr., it led to an unexpected destination: Japan. “I’ve spent two years of my life in Japan,” he said. “I mean, you just never know where life takes ...

Lucy Craft reports from Tokyo on the flagging golf industry in Japan, where it was once considered a top sport. Mismanagement of many of Japan's more than 2,000 golf courses has hobbled the industry ...

TOKYO, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs will sell its stake in Accordia Golf <2131.T> in a deal worth about $450 million, marking the U.S. bank's exit from its investment in distressed golf courses in ...

Not long after Hiromi Kobayashi became chairman of the JLPGA, she told her staff that a Japanese player would win a major on an international level. The JLPGA hosts its own majors, of course, but ...