Lake Tahoe Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in South Lake Tahoe, California.

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holes

par

6,683

yards (tips)

132

slope (gold)

The shape of the round · Gold teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer: William Bell Jr. reported
access: public
address: US 50;CA 89, South Lake Tahoe, CA, 96158
website: course site →
elevation: 6,278 ft derived
opened: 1959
on site: driving range · putting green · pro shop · restaurant · lessons

38.87119, -120.00735 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 17 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

211 traced features across 8 layers for Lake Tahoe Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,683yds

Gold tees

559yds

Longest hole

157yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-07-21

Tees & ratings

Yardagesfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-21

All 11 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Gold	M	71	6683	71.5from the club	132	3497	3186
Gold/Black	M	71	6411	70.0reported, not from the club	128
Gold/Black	F	72	6411	75.9reported, not from the club	145
Black	F	72	6255	74.7from the club	143	3252	3003
Black	M	71	6255	69.5reported, not from the club	123	3252	3003
Black/Silver	M	71	5881	67.7reported, not from the club	116
Black/Silver	F	72	5881	72.7reported, not from the club	141
Silver	F	72	5548	71.4from the club	134	2870	2678
Silver	M	71	5548	66.3reported, not from the club	113	2870	2678
Family	F	72	3693	60.6from the club	101	1908	1785
Family	M	71	3693	58.6reported, not from the club	91	1908	1785

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

These ratings do not all come from the same place, so each row says which: from the club where the course's own card prints that figure, reported where it does not.

Scorecard

Scorecardfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-21

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	5	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	5	71
Gold	536	207	412	432	415	182	343	411	559	388	214	411	449	385	279	370	157	533	6,683
Black	509	164	371	395	403	150	327	404	529	372	183	385	430	369	272	354	141	497	6,255
Silver	494	122	362	368	365	121	307	287	444	265	139	364	399	356	276	341	108	430	5,548
Family	311	88	217	228	198	69	224	235	338	188	122	221	241	219	174	215	68	337	3,693
Handicap	12	10	14	2	4	16	18	8	6	5	13	3	1	7	17	9	15	11

No per-hole yardages are published for Gold/Black and Black/Silver, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Lake Tahoe Golf Course hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Lake Tahoe Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Tahoe Paradise Golf Course (1.1 mi) · Bijou Municipal Golf Course (5.5 mi) · Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course (7.3 mi) · Lakes Course at Genoa Lakes Golf Club (13 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In California	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,683 yds	391st of 889	=4,496th of 12,025	=1,148th of 4,105 public courses · =2,160th of 7,004 courses you can book · =4,464th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 132	=270th of 750	=3,130th of 8,710	=629th of 2,882 public courses · =1,317th of 4,936 courses you can book · =3,063rd of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 71.5	=451st of 685	=4,693rd of 7,615	=1,183rd of 2,412 public courses · =2,226th of 4,145 courses you can book · =4,633rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,990 yds between tees	30th of 857	=334th of 11,523	81st of 3,841 public courses · =163rd of 6,653 courses you can book · =328th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1959	=214th of 768	=2,801st of 9,368	=655th of 3,277 public courses · =1,268th of 5,526 courses you can book · =2,015th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	6,278 ft derived	5th of 917	166th of 12,437	35th of 4,289 public courses · 83rd of 7,274 courses you can book · 120th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 7 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 11 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold a phone number and the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-25. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Nearby courses

Tahoe Paradise Golf Course

1.1 mi · South Lake Tahoe · public · 18 holes

Bijou Municipal Golf Course

5.5 mi · South Lake Tahoe · public · 9 holes

Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course

7.3 mi · Stateline · public · 18 holes

Lakes Course at Genoa Lakes Golf Club

13 mi · Genoa · semi-private · 18 holes

Carson Valley Golf Course

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Ranch Course at Genoa Lakes Golf Club

16 mi · Genoa · semi-private · 18 holes

Glenbrook Golf Course

16 mi · Glenbrook · private · 9 holes

The Club at Clear Creek

18 mi · Carson City · 18 holes

Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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