[Best Golf Courses for Walking] Baekje Country Club 'Harmony Between People and Nature'

Buyeo Large-scale Golf Course, Natural Terrain at the Foot of Chilgapsan
Eco-friendly Construction, Endangered Flora and Fauna Restoration Project
Scenic Impressions, Best Course for Forest Bathing Refreshment
Baekje Historical Sites Lined Up, Including Gungnamji and Jeongnimsaji

Golf is an attractive sport. It is an activity that allows healing in nature. When COVID-19 broke out in 2020, it was popular as a relatively safe sport. The charm of golf lies in being able to take care of your health while walking on green grass. Playing one round means walking more than 10,000 steps. Asia Economy has been promoting the nationwide brain health project called Hamanhacheon (One Day 10,000 Steps, One Day 1,000 Characters) exercise since 2023. Starting from the 15th of last month, they launched the untact ‘Golf Course Grass 10,000 Steps Walking Challenge.’ This event runs until July 14. Through a lottery, participants can receive prizes such as free use tickets for Seowon Hills, a prestigious golf course in Paju, Ping Boston bags, TaylorMade TP5X golf balls, Titleist golf caps, and Lapas UV protection patches. Those with the highest participation can also win Dunlop XXIO drivers, Voice Caddie CL2, and Srixon hybrids. It is the best event to take care of your health and get gifts.

Baekje Country Club is a golf course with artistic scenery located at the foot of Chilgapsan.

◆ChiGO= Baekje Country Club is a public golf course that opened in September 2008 in Buyeo, Chungnam. It has a total of 27 holes. First, 18 holes were opened, and in October 2016, 9 more holes were added and newly renovated. Baekje Country Club is located at the foot of Chilgapsan Mountain. The course incorporates the natural terrain and conditions. The golf course was built using eco-friendly construction methods. Currently, it is working with the Geumgang River Basin Environmental Office and Goun Botanical Garden on restoration projects for natural monuments and endangered species of flora and fauna.

Baekje Country Club is the perfect place for walking golf surrounded by trees and flowers.

Baekje Country Club is a golf course where people and nature harmonize. The course layout, enjoyable for everyone, is impressive. The scenery’s emotional impact cannot be ignored. It is an ideal golf course for forest bathing, spending time with good company, and relaxing comfortably. It has a three-story golf practice range with 63 bays. All bays have an auto tee-up system. The length is 300 meters. It takes 1 hour and 40 minutes (150 km) from the Seoul Tollgate on the Gyeongbu Expressway and 2 hours and 10 minutes (200 km) from the West Seoul Tollgate on the Seohaean Expressway.

At the Baekje Country Club clubhouse, you can receive the best service.

◆GeodGO= Baekje Country Club offers an exciting course. It consists of the Sabi Course, Ungjin Course, and Hanseong Course. When you step up to the teeing ground, you can feel waves like those of the sea. Each course twists and flows in a different way. The undulation of the grass is also fun. The total length is 9,078 meters, and the total area is 1,445,198 square meters (about 437,172.395 pyeong). Long fairways, bunkers, and hazards are well balanced. Overcoming all of these adds to the sense of accomplishment.

The course is accompanied by the beauty of nature. It is perfect for walking golf. Within the Chilgapsan Mountain range that unfolds like a folding screen, there are beautiful places where decades-old tiger skin patterned hopisong trees, quince and apricot trees, and azaleas and forsythias blend harmoniously. Every year, the Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) Jump (3rd division) Tour is held on this tournament course. The course management is excellent, drawing players into the charm of the round.

At the restaurant of Baekje Country Club, you can enjoy a variety of dishes made with local ingredients.

◆MeokGO= You can enjoy the best food at the clubhouse restaurant. The fantastic course view is a bonus. The food made using local ingredients captures the hearts of golfers. Rice, glutinous rice, black rice, pork, cabbage, and red pepper powder are all domestically sourced. Menu items include Korean beef jangteo gukbap (soup with rice), olgaengi eolgari guk (freshwater snail and young cabbage soup), black pork kimchi stew, and lotus leaf yukjeon naengmyeon (cold noodles). There is also a set menu for four people waiting for customers. At the start house, you can have simple drinks and snacks.

Baekje Country Club has a golf hotel. The rooms include Standard, Family, Suite, Hanseong, Sabi, Ungjin, and Baekje types. You can stay at an affordable price and experience various courses. The rooms are equipped with 34-inch LCD TVs, refrigerators, telephones, coffee pots, and hairdryers. Guests can use the clubhouse sauna free of charge.

Gungnamji Pond in Buyeo is the best artificial pond in Korea and a place that is beautiful throughout the four seasons.
[Photo by Buyeo County Office]

◆NolGO= Buyeo was the capital of Baekje. It is full of historical sites. The first that comes to mind is Gungnamji Pond. It is Historic Site No. 135. It is famous as the oldest artificial pond in Korea. It is the place associated with the legend of Seodongyo, about King Mu of Baekje who married Princess Seonhwa of Silla. An island was made in the middle of the pond to express the idea of immortality. It is beautiful in all four seasons. In July, the Seodong Lotus Festival, a beautiful event featuring ten million lotus flowers, is held. From October to November, the Goodttae Chrysanthemum Exhibition, decorated with various works, takes place. It is open year-round.

The Jeongnimsaji Five-Story Stone Pagoda is a treasure that showcases Baekje aesthetics applied with the minheullim technique.
[Photo by Buyeo County Office]

The five-story stone pagoda at Jeongnimsaji, National Treasure No. 9, is also worth seeing. Jeongnimsa Temple is a representative temple built when King Seong of Baekje moved the capital to Buyeo in 538. The Jeongnimsaji five-story stone pagoda, located in the middle of the temple site, is 8.33 meters tall. Pillars are placed at each corner of the pagoda body using the minheullim technique. It feels dignified yet soft, massive yet elegant and refined. The Jeongnimsaji Museum is located where the pagoda stands. It incorporates cutting-edge technology to allow visitors to experience the construction and excavation process of Jeongnimsaji.