A couple of weeks ago on a sunny Sunday afternoon (ok - actually it was a windy cold Saturday afternoon.... but I thought the other opening sounded nicer), we rode out bikes down to the Toyohira River. Along the riverbanks, they have areas that they use for all sorts of recreation - baseball fields, walking trails, football fields and park golf courses.
The majority of the people taking part in the golfing were elderly Japanese people (the elderly Japanese are amazingly healthy and able bodied people - we really should work on finding out what they do to stay so healthy). The course had 18 holes and is a cross between mini-golf and pitch-and-put. The club is a short-handled driver style club and the ball is the size of a grapefruit and made from dense plastic. The course had the odd sand trap but really nothing that was all that challenging.
We paid our $5 each (that included green fees for 18 holes and rental of equipment!) and hit the links. It was a lot of fun, although not a lot of challenge. Initially I found it a bit hard not to take a full swing, which sends the ball screaming through the the srubery at the end of the fareway. The course even had a resident "golf pro" who walked around the course giving tips to the older ladies who were golfing.
It was a fun way to kill an afternoon, and it will be nice to return on a sunny warm day.
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