Lahontan Golf Club

Overview: Lahontan Golf Club is a private Tom Weiskopf mountain course near Truckee, set among Jeffrey, lodgepole and ponderosa pines, spring-fed meadows and Tahoe-area ridgelines. The 18-hole routing is par 72 and measures 7,335 yards from the green championship tees. Its scale changes constantly as fairways move through forest, open meadow and sloping ground, asking for thoughtful club selection rather than a single repeatable swing. The setting supplies both the beauty and the difficulty: elevation, trees, changing lies and the need to shape approaches around varied green sites.

History: Lahontan opened in 1998 as a private golf community designed by Tom Weiskopf. The main course was followed by a separate nine-hole par-three course, also associated with Weiskopf, giving the club a second format for short-game practice and family play. Current club course-tour material presents the property as a high-country golf setting built around its natural environment, while scorecard records confirm the main routing’s par-72 structure and 7,335-yard longest tee.

Did You Know? Lahontan’s golf offering includes both the full-length 18-hole course and a separate nine-hole par-three course. That combination makes the property more than a single championship routing, and it reinforces Weiskopf’s use of the surrounding mountain landscape at different scales. On the main course, the longest scorecard set reaches 7,335 yards, but the alternate tees create a broad range of distances through the same forest and meadow setting.