The Red Hawk Golf and Resort in Sparks sits in the Spanish Springs Valley outside of Reno, Nevada. The resort community offers 36 holes on two courses - Robert Trent Jones Jr.'s Lakes Course and Hale Irwin's Hills course - plus a fitness center with an outdoor pool. The Villas at Red Hawk pamper guests with plenty of space and modern decor.…
Although known as a ski resort first and foremost, golfers will love life in the summer on the mountain. Northstar's Robert Muir Graves course is a tale of two nines with the front in a meadow in Martis Valley and the back nine climbing into the trees. The ski village rocks with live concerts on weekends, multiple restaurants and a kids zone. No…
The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe, a AAA Five Diamond resort, is nestled midmountain at the ski-centric Northstar California Resort in Truckee. It is located just six miles from downtown Truckee and a half hour from Lake Tahoe, where the Lake Club is an exclusive beachfront hangout with paddleboarding, kayaks and food and drinks included in the daily…
The Resort at Squaw Creek, a AAA Four-Diamond resort, is ideally situated at the base of Squaw Valley, host of the 1960 Winter Olympics. It is home to 405 luxury rooms and suites, a Robert Trent Jones Jr. golf course that also offers Footgolf, multiple restaurants, shopping, three outdoor swimming pools (including a 90-foot water slide), outdoor…
They call Reno the "Biggest Little City in the World" and it's loaded with quality gaming options at places like Peppermill, Atlantis and Silver Legacy, but golfers here will enjoy a myriad of outdoor activities on and off the course. Play 18 holes in the morning, mountain bike or river raft in the afternoon and hit the slots and blackjack tables at night.
Lake Tahoe straddles the border between California and Nevada, surrounded by mountains on every side. The lake has long been one of the most popular vacation destinations in the U.S., offering an abundance of activities to please outdoor enthusiasts of any sort. As the largest alpine lake in North America, it draws skiers from all over the country but the area also offers some of the most scenic golf you'll find in the US. Whether you choose to drive around the lake and try out several courses or just stick to a few on the North or South shores, you'll be treated with stunning lakefront views.
The onset of the recession and the rise of smart phones have forever changed private golf clubs. To grab and retain members, modern private clubs must offer amenities for the all ages and interests, not just golfers.
Visit Reno and its surrounding area, and you'll find the golf courses of the High Sierras as diverse and interesting as the region's weather. Little destinations within destinations spring out at Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Plumas County and in the Carson Valley. And the topography makes the golf courses spectacular in nature, if entirely unexpected.
Mountain golf is a special kind of golf. Such is the case when you golf the High Sierras, from Reno, Nev., to Lake Tahoe up to Truckee, Calif. This area is littered with dramatic golf holes, and some of them present some pretty interesting risk-reward opportunities. Mike Bailey details four examples of what kind of thrill rides you're in for when you play golf in the Reno-Tahoe area.
A mountain village born of good spirits, Truckee, Calif., sits just north of Lake Tahoe's north shore and earned its reputation as a ski haven. Spectacular in the winter, this part of NoCal's High Sierra, though, provides an idyllic golf escape for a few tantalizing months each summer. A diverse golf scene has emerged, Brandon Tucker writes.
From Reno and the Carson Valley to South Lake Tahoe, Truckee and beyond, Lake Tahoe's 44 golf courses offer great variety and incredible scenery in one of America's most beautiful places.
Lake Tahoe is an embarrassment of golf riches, especially on the north end. A fivesome of courses in Truckee and another fivesome farther north in Graeagle, Clio and Portola could be golf destinations unto themselves.
Coyote Moon Golf Course in Truckee, Calif. is fun from beginning to end. The conditioning of the Brad Bell-designed course is superb, and the service is impeccable. Despite a somewhat higher rate than some other local courses, a visit to Coyote Moon should be on the itinerary of any visitor to the Reno-Tahoe area, Kiel Christianson writes.
Somersett Golf & Country Club, which opened in 2005, is one of the Reno area's newest semi-private courses. Somersett was designed by Tom Kite, Roy Bechtol and Randy Russell and can play as long as 7,252 yards from the championship tees, making it a great test for low-handicappers. The course plays on rolling, high-desert ground with tremendous Sierra-Nevada mountain views.
D'Andrea Golf Club is a semi-private golf club in Sparks, Nev., just minutes from downtown Reno. The 18-hole course opened in 2000 and was designed by Keith Foster, who built a course that winds up and down desert hillsides. The course has a great deal of topographical variance, and holes play uphill and downhill, in some cases severely.
Located in the foothills overlooking Reno, Montreux Golf and Country Club is one of the area's finest upscale private courses. Opened in 1997, this Jack Nicklaus design weaves through both open high desert areas and tall pines, which makes some parts of the course susceptible to winds, while other holes are dead calm.
The Lakes Course at Red Hawk Golf and Resort, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., plays 7,140 yards from the championship tees and features bentgrass greens and more than 100 bunkers. There are many dogleg rights here, far more than holes played left, so slicers may find the golf course friendly -- but hazards tend to lurk on the right side of many fairways as well.
Jack Nicklaus made Old Greenwood plenty challenging, but its playable routing and scenery make it a favorite among the top courses surrounding Lake Tahoe.
Set on the slopes beside the north shore of Lake Tahoe is Incline Village, home to 36 holes of golf. Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., the resort's Championship Course is is set on sloping, forested mountains and offers views of the lake from its high points. Several holes on the golf course are full of water hazards and large bunkers, though fairways are generally wide.
In an area wrought with golf courses trying to outdo each other, Incline Village's Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed Championship Course can still hold its own.
The Sierra Nevada mountain range in northern Nevada and California makes for spectacular natural scenery and a collection of the mountain and desert west's top golf courses. Here's a look at the many different sides to golf in the High Sierras, Reno and Carson Valley from Brandon Tucker's June 2010 trip.
The Schaffer's Mill Golf & Lake Club is the one private club in Lake Tahoe that offers non-members a taste of its course. The Johnny Miller/John Harbottle III course is open to the public on Mondays.
Located north of Lake Tahoe in the mountain town of Truckee, Calif., Schaffer's Mill Club is the newest upscale real estate and golf club development in the area. The private golf course opened for play in 2009 and is now welcoming promotional play from the general public.
Coyote Moon Golf Course sits on 250 heavily wooded and rolling acres in Truckee, California. The golf course, which was designed by former PGA Tour player Brad Bell and opened in 2000, features plenty of elevated greens and is among the many new spectacular mountain golf courses of the past decade.
The Martis Camp Club is one of the Lake Tahoe area's newest upscale residential golf communities. Located in Truckee, Calif., about 10 miles north of Lake Tahoe, the development spans 2,100 acres in the Martis Valley and at the base of the Northstar at Tahoe Ski Resort. It also features a private Tom Fazio-designed course open since 2008.
With Clear Creek Tahoe, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw delivered an alpine golf course that can be walked. Majestic evergreens line the fairways of the subtly rolling land.
Clear Creek Tahoe is a rarity -- a mountain course designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. No typical mountain course, this one has a little bit of a linksy, sandhills feel to it, with multiple options to bump-and-run the ball into greens complexes that will hold your interest, to say the least.