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Memorial Park Golf Course



Overview

Back in the 1960s, a forest south of Truckee served as a location for the filming of the popular TV western “Bonanza.” Now it’s the locale for three diverse residential courses, Schaffer’s Mill by Johnny Miller and the late John Harbottle, Lahontan by Tom Weiskopf, and Martis Camp by Tom Fazio. Fazio has called this site one of the finest natural pieces of property on which he’s ever created a golf course. It has pines, firs, hemlocks and rocky outcroppings on nearly every hole, particularly the 18th, where the clubhouse sits atop a 70-foot-high wall of granite behind the green. Fairways are broad, though hazarded by squiggly bunkers in certain spots, and some greens have trunks of tall Ponderosa pines uncomfortably close. So gorgeous is Martis Camp Golf Club that one critic called it, “a private-gated national park experience.”

About

Holes 18
Length 7766
Slope 143
Facility Type Private
Designer Thomas Fazio, ASGCA

Awards

100 Greatest the Second 100
Best Courses in Every State

Ranking history:

Second 100 Greatest: Ranked since 2013.
2023-'24 ranking: 134th.
Previous ranking: 145th.
Highest ranking: No. 145, 2017-'18, 2021-'22.

Best in State: Ranked 17th, 2013-'14, 2023-'24. Ranked 18th, 2015-'20. Ranked 19th, 2011-'12, 2021-'22.
Current ranking: 17th.
Previous ranking: 19th.

Panelists

Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

4.4

100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

Shot Options
7.3967
Character
7.4447
Challenge
7.4298
Layout Variety
7.4337
Fun
7.3871
Aesthetics
7.7422
Conditioning
7.6148

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