Copper Valley Golf Club

Copper Valley Golf Club occupies a striking piece of the Sierra Nevada foothills in Copperopolis, a small Gold Rush-era town in Calaveras County whose very name hints at the mining history that shaped this corner of California. The course sits in the rolling oak-studded terrain between the Central Valley floor and the higher elevations of the Sierra, where summers run hot and dry but the elevation and afternoon breezes keep conditions playable through much of the year. It's the kind of landscape where the land does a lot of the design work — natural contours, seasonal color changes in the grasses, and long views into the surrounding hills make for a visually memorable round.