Nevada, Lake Tahoe / Reno Area Golf Course Reviews
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Golf Course Review
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Edgewood Lake Tahoe Summary: A fantastic golf course located on the south shore of Lake Tahoe near the casinos, on the Nevada side. The combination of golf holes located in the meadows, holes in the trees, and holes along the lake, most having water hazards, makes for an extremely enjoyable and beautiful round of golf where the average man or woman can walk in the footsteps of the professional athletes and actors that play here every year. The gems of this golf course with great views of Lake Tahoe are reviewed below:
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 1: A nice starting par four that makes the player think about the lake to the left on both shots, without it being so tight (there is plenty of room to bailout right) as to require incredible accuracy for the first shots of the day.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 1: A nice starting par four that makes the player think about the lake to the left on both shots, without it being so tight (there is plenty of room to bailout right) as to require incredible accuracy for the first shots of the day.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 2: A relatively short, but tight par four, with water left on both shots and a steeply pitched and tiered green makes the golfer find his accuracy early on in the round to avoid bogey or worse.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 3 (tee shot): This is an incredible three shot dogleg right par five. The tee shot is wide, with the adventurous player given the option of flying the large bunker at the corner of the dogleg. But, beware the lake that creeps in on the left side for a long, pulled drive.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 3 (approach): The second shot must be played right of the water and either short or long of the cross bunker that cuts in around 100 yards from the green. This shot is key as the uphill approach must be hit from a good angle to the well-bunkered green surrounded left, right and long with tall, thick pine trees.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 4: Arguably the best scoring chance on the course for a long hitter, this is the second par five in a row, but the last until hole 16. The drive must avoid the hazard right, but the fairway is generous enough to give it a big whack. The second or third shots must avoid the creek that cuts right of the green. There is a sliver of fairway to the right of the creek as well if a shot is pushed badly or if the golfer wants a good angle to a back left pin placement. The green has a false front and a huge bunker short left that make front pin placements the biggest risk reward area.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 6: This downhill par 4 has a wide tee shot for the lay-up, but it narrows quickly for the player who hits driver. The rewards are great, however, for the adventurous as the approach is played over a lake cut right in front of the green. This green is surrounded by sand and is deep and undulating.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 8 (left): The first time, but certainly not the last, that the golfer will face a large pine tree in the middle of the fairway is here on this dogleg right par four. If the golfer can negotiate the drive between the trees left, right and center, the rest of the hole is fairly straight forward but the bunker short right and hill long left of the angled green are places to be avoided
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 9 (right): The recent re-design, which had minimal changes, but allowed for the onsite lodge to be built, required the 9th to not be the 90 degree dogleg it once was and now is replaced with a much better medium length par four that comes down near the edge of the lake. The drive is fairly tight with trees on both sides and the second has a green with bunkers guarding multiple angles.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 10: Similar to the first hole, this slight dog-leg right must have a drive placed between the trees right and the lake left. The approach will almost certainly be played over the lake, which snuggles up to the less than flat green, which has great views of Lake Tahoe.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 11 (left): This short par four has a tree in the middle of the fairway that has to be avoided and a lake short and right that makes the layup shot off the tee almost harder than blasting driver up near the tree. The second shot will be uphill to a green that slopes severely from back to front and is small.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 12 (below): This par three is long, with a huge fronting bunker. In one of the better design moves since I first place this in 2004, they have removed the pine tree that used to sit in the bunker, which really made the hole a little too tricked out. The green is shallow and steeply pitched. Anything hit short will find the bunker and anything long will leave a downhill pitch from a hillside.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 12 (below): This par three is long, with a huge fronting bunker. In one of the better design moves since I first place this in 2004, they have removed the pine tree that used to sit in the bunker, which really made the hole a little too tricked out. The green is shallow and steeply pitched. Anything hit short will find the bunker and anything long will leave a downhill pitch from a hillside.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 13: Running parallel to the 3rd hole, this dogleg right par four had an elevated tee (except for the forward tees pictured here). The easier/shorter approach is from the right side, but anything right of the bunkers is dead. Left is a safer, albeit longer, approach to the uphill green complex.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 14: One of the most gorgeous and best all-around holes in all of golf starts with a tee shot through a shoot of trees. Anything left is in a lake, while a bunker looms right to grab the timid. The approach turns the corner and presents a wide open view of the green with Lake Tahoe and Mt. Tallac directly behind it. It is a striking hole and embodies all that is memorable about this course in one perfect hole..
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 16 ( tee shot right and approach shot below): The sixteenth is considered by many to be one of the better par fives in the United States. It is a long, and very narrow par 5 that makes its way down to the shores of Lake Tahoe. The amazing pine tree in the middle of the fairway (the third such obstacle of the day) is definitely in play and will lengthen the hole if hit as will any push or pull off the tee. The second will most likely be played short of the enormous bunker complex short of the green, leaving a fairly wide-open shot to a long, but flat green. In rare circumstances, the huge driver can attempt to fly the cross bunkers and hit the green in two or leave just a pitch to the green.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 17: It would take a really bad shot to actually hit the approach on this par 3 into Lake Tahoe, but it doesn’t take much to find the beach, or the remaining traps on this supremely pretty hole.
Edgewood Lake Tahoe Hole 18: The finishing golf hole is a long par five and the green complex is a beautiful place to stand (especially when one's golf ball is safely sitting there. Snuggled between a lake left and much larger lake right, it is a feast for the eyes, with the cool Edgewood clubhouse sitting right behind.
