Diamond Mountain Golf Course

Overview: Susanville Diamond Mountain occupies an 18-hole public layout among northeastern California mountains, meadows, wooded areas and a lake. Current course listings give a par of 72 and a longest published yardage of 6,417, while older regional material lists a slightly different total. The setting is more distinctive than the distance difference: the layout is built around open mountain-country scenery and sloped greens.

History: A regional course record dates Diamond Mountain to 1968, but designer credits vary between Richard Walpohl and Dave Tanner in different directories. Since the sources do not resolve that attribution, no architect is entered. The city continues to identify Diamond Mountain as a municipal golf facility, which anchors the course identity even where older scorecards disagree.

Did You Know? Long straight fairways, simple doglegs, fast greens, a lake and mountain scenery define the documented playing character of Diamond Mountain. That mix makes Diamond Mountain read as a northern inland course rather than a conventional lowland parkland layout.