Event 3 of 10 - Regular season
The Fuji Invitational
Taiheiyo Club, Gotemba CourseGotemba, Shizuoka, Japan
Date to be set
- Par
- 72
- Length
- 7,327 yards
- Type
- Hillside parkland
- Architect
- Shunsuke Kato
- Opened
- 1977
Course history
- The course opened on 26 April 1977 and has hosted the Japan Golf Tour's Taiheiyo Masters every year since.
- It hosted the 2001 WGC-EMC World Cup, won by South Africa's Ernie Els and Retief Goosen in a four-team playoff.
- Hideki Matsuyama won the Taiheiyo Masters as an amateur in 2011 and set the event's record of 23 under par in 2016.
- Takumi Kanaya also won the event as an amateur, in 2019.
- Past champions include Seve Ballesteros (1988) and Lee Westwood, who won three years in a row from 1996 to 1998.
Suits
- A hillside course on the slopes of Mount Fuji, so many shots are played from sloping lies.
- Long from the tournament tees (7,327 yards), with fairly generous fairways, which suits long drivers.
- Greens are rated very difficult (4.8 out of 5 on Golf-in-Japan), so it rewards a strong putter.
- Ponds on the 4th, 14th and 18th create risk-reward decisions, especially on the reachable closing par 5.
Signature hole
No. 18
A 525-yard par 5 with a pond on the right where Tiger Woods chipped in for eagle at the 2001 World Cup to force a playoff.
Tees
| Tee | Yards | Metres | Par |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tournament | 7,327 yds | 6,700 m | 72 |
| Back | 6,902 yds | 6,311 m | 72 |
| Regular | 6,539 yds | 5,979 m | 72 |
| Ladies | 5,305 yds | 4,851 m | 72 |
Real-course scorecard figures. Trackman's tee options may differ slightly.