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Few golf settings in California announce themselves as immediately as this one. South Lake Tahoe sits at roughly 6,200 feet elevation, and playing golf here means dealing with the real consequences of thin air — shots carry noticeably farther than they would at sea level, which flatters the ego but demands a recalibration of every club in the bag. The Sierra Nevada surrounds you, and the light at this altitude has a particular clarity that makes the course feel almost theatrical, especially in morning or late-afternoon rounds.
South Lake Tahoe is a year-round destination town built around the lake itself — one of the deepest and most strikingly blue bodies of water in North America — but the golf season is genuinely compressed by the mountain winters, which gives summer and early fall rounds here a fleeting, you-have-to-earn-this quality that resort golf in warmer climates rarely delivers.
As a public layout serving a busy tourist corridor, Lake Tahoe GC functions as the kind of course where visitors mix with locals who treat it as their home track — casual in atmosphere but memorable in backdrop.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold · men | 6,661 | 71.3 | 129 | 71 |
| Black · men | 6,167 | 69.4 | 123 | 71 |
| Black · women | 6,167 | 74 | 139 | 71 |
| Silver · men | 5,542 | 66.2 | 115 | 70 |
| Silver · women | 5,542 | 70.9 | 130 | 71 |
| Family · men | 3,693 | 59.1 | 93 | 58 |
| Family · women | 3,693 | 60.4 | 100 | 62 |
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