First Lady Melania Trump, left, and Akie Abe, wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, take a tour of the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Fla., on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017.

Park Golf, a shorter version of golf, with holes from 33 yards to 110 yards and a single mallet-like golf club, is hugely popular in Japan (there are 500,000 park golfers, many in their 80s and 90s).

Yin Ruoning of China watches her tee shot on the 16th hole during the LPGA Tour's Maybank Championship at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country club in Kuala Lumpur, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024.

It boasts a staggering 2,200 golf courses nationwide, more than the United Kingdom, yet the percentage of tourists who take their golf clubs to Japan is minimal. With Japan such a popular tourist ...

The origins of golf in Japan are reportedly traced to a group of British expatriates who played the game at The Kobe Golf Club in the early 1900s. Under the direction of Arthur Hasketh Groom, the ...