Arthur Hesketh Groom

Arthur Hesketh Groom (1846–1918) was the founder of the Kobe Golf Club, Japan's first golf club.

Groom came to Japan in 1868 and became a long-term resident of Kobe.

He was a known outdoorsman and mountaineer, and it is his appreciation for the local mountains near Kobe and a lament that golf was unavailable in Japan that led him and a group of friends to found the Club.

This biographical article relating to golf in Japan is a stub.

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.