Truckee / California / United States
Tied for ninth on Golf Digests list of Best New Private golf courses for 1999, the Lahontan Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course with bent grass greens and bluegrass fairways. The course s design incorporates the beauty of the area and its natural terrain, including mature trees, constant elevation changes, and streams and ponds. Its fairways are wide and generous, and the greens are relatively small, rewarding accurately placed approach shots. Every hole has been integrated with the natural terrain, which gives each a distinct personality and challenge. Water comes into play on five holes, and most holes offer risk/reward opportunities. Lahontan Golf Club, in Truckee, Calif., sits in a picturesque valley flanked on the right by wetlands and a massive 30-yard fairway bunker.
