The driving range opens June 9 with the front nine opening on June 23. With the incredible winter snowpack that the region experienced in 2023, Tahoe Donner will be among the last courses to fully open this year due to conditions. Tahoe Donner - Driving range June 9 front nine June 23 The facility offers a limited number of memberships to the public each season. It is a relatively long but manageable course. The front nine is sunny and open in an expansive meadow under the peaks of Northstar and is generally flat, while the back nine is of a hillier nature with a healthy dose of ups and downs tee to green. Set amongst the lush Sierra foothills, Schaffer’s Mill is a semi-private golf facility co-designed by John Harbottle and two-time major winner Johnny Miller. Schaffer’s Mill Golf & Lake Club - Opening TBA Overall, it’s a great and affordable place to sharpen your game. However, no hole is a streamline conquest the fairways are tight and, though hitting driver is always tempting, it can easily lead to driving right through the short grass into a monster pine or onto the adjacent fairways. It’s a short nine-hole course and, except for one severely uphill par 3, is quite flat. Originally brought to fruition by the townspeople and designed by Bob Baldock, Ponderosa Golf Course is Truckee’s oldest golf course, opening for play in 1961. The course is also home to the PGA Tour’s Barracuda Championship returning from July 20 to 23. The practice facility here is second to none in the Reno-Tahoe area and offers customized learning opportunities, as well as a fully immersive golf academy. The course has been given a Top 10 ranking for Best New Public Access Golf Course by Golf Digest and was ranked the 4 th Finest New Upscale Public Course in America by Golf Magazine.

The course is a pure golf haven handcrafted by the legendary Jack Nicklaus in 2004.

Get lost in 600 acres of towering pines while playing the storied and challenging Old Greenwood. The National Audubon Society recognized Gray’s Crossing as an Audubon International Gold Signature Sanctuary. Expect lofty ancient pine trees, native landscapes, wide fairways and relatively easy-to-find greens. Gray’s Crossing opened in 2007 and was once a private golf facility though now open to the public, it still has a private feel and look to it. Like the play, they’ll change each season. Stroll through this classically designed Peter Jacobsen course and take notice of its natural features. Tucked away in a beautiful mountain meadow in the shadows of Mount Rose, Gray’s Crossing embraces the surrounding landscape. The layout sports countless elevation changes, both vertically and horizontally, with well-guarded greens and strategically placed hazards throughout. Located minutes from downtown Truckee, the course is carved into 250 acres of climbs and drops, bends and tunnels, with breathtaking views in a heavily wooded alpine zone, featuring towering pines and eccentric granite outcroppings. The city has emphasized the need for the public to participate in its future, so they want feedback from the community on what should happen to the golf course.Truckee | Northstar | Olympic Valley | South Lake Tahoe | North Lake Tahoe | Lost SierraĪ high-elevation roller coaster ride and true test of one’s skill reading the natural topography of the land, shot placement and ball-flight control. The city is instituting a participatory funding model, allowing the public to weigh in on how American Rescue Plan Act funding will be used.

“The Parks and Recreation Department will continue to maintain the grounds to preserve the asset for future use,” said Baker. However, since the course last operated, management of the course changed to parks and recreation from public works. “The number of rounds played has progressively decreased over the last 10 years (based on 2019 due to when the course was last open) from 19,107 in 2009 to 6,188 in 2019,” said Baker. The course usually makes an annual profit of about $20,000. The average cost to operate the course for a full season is about $300,000, although that depends on spring snowmelt. “We expect to embark on those this coming fiscal year and they will help the city address future use of the golf course,” Baker said.

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