Kawana

And we thought Naruo was hilly!!

As you can see from the above, Kawana sits on a fantastic piece of property. What is harder to see from the picture is that there is a tremendous amount of walking up and down hills. Many holes have elevated tee boxes where you hit down into the valley and they play your second shot back up the other side. In addition to the hills, there was a 2-3 club wind blowing most of the morning, just to make it a bit more challenging.

Here are a few examples:

Still smiling before hitting a terrible tee shot!

Big downhill Par 5

Art hitting his approach to 18; into the bunker!!

Standing on the first tee, you see this beautiful, downhill hole stretching to the Pacific but all you can think about is the 17th hole next to it, knowing you'll have to climb back up the hill before you're done!!

Despite the hills and the wind, the course was just one beautiful hole after another; definitely the most scenic of the trip.

Town of Ito viewed from the course

We missed the peak of the Cherry Blossoms but some were still in force

After we staggered back up from the Clubhouse to the Hotel we hopped in our bus for the one hour ride to the train. Not having time to eat lunch at the hotel, against my strongly voiced objections as not in keeping with our immersion in the Japanese culture, we had the bus turn into McDonalds for an "emergency" Big Mac stop!!  Needless to say, I was the first one off the bus to place my order. We then headed to the train station and the Bullet Train back to Osaka.

Tomorrow we're off to Hirono Golf Club.