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EmailSHENZHEN, China – Kasumigaseki Country Club, site of one of the most historic moments in Asian golf history, will host the 2010 Asian Amateur.
Kasumigaseki is located in Kasahata Kawagoe City, Japan, about one hour northwest of Tokyo.
Kasumigaseki’s East Course was the site of the 1957 Canada Cup – the predecessor to the World Cup – which Japan’s Torakichi Nakamura and Koichi Ono won over the United States’ Sam Snead and Jimmy Demaret. Nakamura also won the individual title.
Herbert Warren Wind wrote in Sports Illustrated that the Canada Cup was “the most important international sports event ever held in the Far East.” Golf historians have called Japan’s upset victory one of the starting points of Japan’s golf boom.
The club’s other course, the West Course, will be the site of next year’s Asian Am. Kasumigaseki Country Club was also the venue for the Japan Open in 1933, 1956, 1995 and 2006, and the Japan Women’s Open in 1999. It has hosted the Japan Junior Championship for the past 40 years.
“The APGC is very pleased to announce Kasumigaseki Country Club in Japan as the host of the next Asian Amateur Championship,” said Kwang-soo Hur, president of the Asia Pacific Golf Confederation. “It is a natural progression to take the championship to this great golfing nation and we have selected a very fine venue.”
