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Grand Opening of NEMU GOLF CLUB on October 1, 2015

July 27, 2015
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
NEMU NO SATO Co., Ltd.

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. and Group company NEMU NO SATO Co., Ltd. announced that they are radically remodeling the golf course and have renovated the club house inside the Group’s NEMU HOTEL & RESORT in Shima City, Mie Prefecture, with reopening after renovation scheduled for Thursday, October 1, 2015.

With the renovation, the Group will rename the course NEMU GOLF CLUB and start providing guests with a new resort-style of golfing worthy of a hotel & resort.

Outline and Characteristics of the Renewed NEMU GOLF CLUB

  1. A new seaside course with a resort atmosphere
  2. Two new and extensive practice ranges for enriching the resort-style golf experience
  3. A new playing style unique to the NEMU GOLF CLUB
  4. A spacious new club house (reopened after renovation on March 31, 2015)
  5. Golf & Stay plans for full enjoyment of the resort and its splendid hotel accommodations
The golf course and club house in the morning   The new 16th hole

Main Features of the Renewed NEMU GOLF CLUB

  1. A new seaside course with a resort atmosphere
    1. The Group asked Damian V. Pascuzzo, past president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA), and Steve Pate, a U.S. PGA tour professional golfer, of the firm Pascuzzo & Pate Golf Design (2P Golf Design) to remodel the course. Furthermore, professional golfer Hiromi Kobayashi was brought in to apply her experience of golf courses around the world as a supervisory advisor to the course.
    2. The golf course was remodeled with a new 300-yard driving range and a bold change of the layout, reversing the front-nine and back-nine holes, to create a polished resort atmosphere (including a 15th hole that tees off into a breathtaking view of Ago Bay and a 16th hole with a scenic yet thrilling approach to the green.)
    3. The number of teeing grounds to the course was increased to five; ranging from red tee markers 4,724 in yardage to black tee markers 6,768 in yardage. Anyone from novice to athletic golfers, families and ladies groups, will now be able to play a round of golf matching their own level.
  2. Two new and extensive practice ranges for enriching the resort-style golf experience
    1. A new and extensive 300-yard driving range will be created on the site of the former 10th hole. This driving range comes with a row of 18 natural-grass teeing grounds, some of them roofed, where guests will be able to practice rain or shine.
    2. A new 7,000 m2 short-game practice area - one of the largest in Japan - will be created on the site of the former driving range. Equipped with two greens the facility is characterized by offering users realistic practice on long approach and bunker shots.

    The driving range as sketched by Damian V. Pascuzzo
  3. A new playing style unique to the NEMU GOLF CLUB
    1. Two- and five-seater golf carts equipped with a large-monitor navigation system will be introduced for driving within the fairway. The state-of-the-art GPS navigation system in the carts is equipped with a large 10.4-inch color monitor to display the course layout as well as provide guests with the distance to the pin and new functions such as inputting their scores.
    2. Depending on the tee-off time, the carts will enable guests to play 18 straight holes and still have time to enjoy the resort after their game. (Depending on weather conditions, guests may be asked to drive only on the cart path.)
      The GPS navigation system (by Techno Craft Co., Ltd.)   A cart on the fairway (image)
  4. A new and spacious club house (reopened after renovation on March 31, 2015)
    1. The club house renovations were designed by Yoshiyuki Morii, one of Japan’s leading interior architects, with spacious and airy creature comforts including a new entrance hall, lounge, locker rooms, restaurant, and banquet rooms.

      Entrance hall


      Second-floor lounge

    2. The club house renovation includes a new spa on premises, fed by natural hot spring. Guests can now enjoy a relaxing time in the spa after their game.
    3. The restaurant also underwent a complete remake from a food buffet to an a la carte menu. Guests can now enjoy the Ise-Shima area’s local cuisine and other dishes prepared by the master chefs of the hotels.

      A lunch menu item


      The GREEN SIDE restaurant

  5. Golf & Stay plans for full enjoyment of the resort and its splendid hotel accommodations
    The NEMU HOTEL & RESORT comes with three hotel facilities. One of the hotels, the HOTEL NEMU, was renovated and reopened in April 2013. It has a restaurant serving foods from the Ise-Shima area, as well as a hot-spring spa, KIYORA, with three different types of bathing pools on the premises. Furthermore, it also offers an extensive menu of activities including yoga classes and nature activities such as ocean cruises. Guests could, for example, play a round of late-afternoon golf or practice in the driving range and have a relaxing dinner and hot-spring bath on their first day, and then wake up to play 18 full holes of golf on the second day.

    A guest room in HOTEL NEMU


    The KIYORA hot-spring spa inside

Course Remodel Architect and Supervisor

Damian V. Pascuzzo

After serving as president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA), Damian V. Pascuzzo went on to establish Pascuzzo & Pate Golf Design (2P Golf Design) with Steve Pate, a U.S. PGA tour professional golfer. Mr. Pascuzzo has experience designing and remodeling many golf courses, primarily on the West Coast of the U.S.
(Major courses of his design: La Costa Resort and Spa (Carlsbad, CA), La Quinta Country Club (La Quinta, CA), Monarch Dunes (Nipomo, CA), and Otaru Country Club (Hokkaido, Japan), and many more.

Steve Pate

Born in the U.S. in California in 1961, Steve Pate has won six tournaments on the U.S. PGA tour and is well known among fans in Japan having placed second in the Chunichi Crowns golf tournament. He continues to play in the Champions Tour (U.S. seniors tour). As a business partner of Damian V. Pascuzzo, Mr. Pate provides strategic advice on course design from his perspective as a professional golfer.

Course Supervisory Advisor

Hiromi Kobayashi

Hiromi Kobayashi is currently the chairwoman of the Ladies Professional Golfers’ Association of Japan (Japan LPGA) and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame’s nominating committee. Before retiring, Ms. Kobayashi won 10 tournaments on the Japan LPGA tour as a professional golfer, including the Japan Women’s Open Golf Championship. She also won four tournaments on the U.S. LPGA tour and one tournament on the Ladies European Tour, garnering many fans in the process. She was brought in to offer advice drawing on her experience of golf courses around world as a professional golfer as well as her perspectives as a female golfer.

Club House Renovation Interior Architect

Yoshiyuki Morii

Born in Kyoto in 1967, Yoshiyuki Morii is one of Japan’s up-and-coming interior architects, and has also been included in a select list of the 21 most noteworthy next-generation interior architects in the world.
He has worked with several golf courses, including the Seta Golf Course (Shiga Prefecture), Murasaki Ayame 36 (Chiba Prefecture), and the Koshigaya Golf Club (Saitama Prefecture)
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Overview of the NEMU GOLF CLUB Facilities

Course size 18 holes, 6,768 yards, par 72
Course remodel 2P Golf Design: Damian V. Pascuzzo (design), Steve Pate (design supervision)
Advisor Hiromi Kobayashi
Grass type Green
 Bentgrass green
Tee, fairway and rough Zoysia grass
Caddies Caddies cannot be guaranteed but every effort is made to satisfy requests
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