Courses · California

Pine Mountain Lake Golf Course

Groveland, California · 18 holes · par 70 · Semi-Private. Opened 1969.

A caddie's yardage book for every hole: plays-like distance from USGS lidar elevation, reach and carry numbers for every bunker and water hazard, green front, middle and back, which way each green falls, and the lay-up zone on par 5s. Distances are from the back tees along the mapped hole; for a shorter tee, take off the scorecard difference.

Course profile

• At about 2,700 ft the ball carries about 3% farther than at sea level, so a 150-yard shot plays like about 145. Golfers visiting from low elevation should expect to club down.
• Biggest climb: hole 18, where the green sits 60 ft above the tee and plays about 20 yards longer.
• Biggest drop: hole 11, where the green sits 105 ft below the tee and plays about 35 yards shorter.
• Driving-zone hazards sit on the right on 3 holes and on the left on 1: a tee shot missed right costs more here.
• 15 greens tilt 2% or more. Each hole below says which side of the hole leaves an uphill putt.

Maps: tee at the bottom, green at the top. The dashed line is the mapped hole; the gold band is the lay-up zone; the arrow on the green points downhill.

Scorecard

Tees

Hole 1 · Par 4

386 (Black) · 378 (Gold) · 324 (Purple/Green) yards · Handicap 9

Plays like

355-94 ft

Green · Black tee

372 · 386 · 397front · middle · back

Green size

27 × 25yards deep × wide

Fairway

33 ydswide at 235

Green slope

1.5%falls to the front

In play

• Water right: 278 to reach, 317 to carry
• 2 bunkers front-left of the green
• Bunker front-right of the green

Playing notes

• Plays about 31 yards shorter: the green sits 94 ft below the tee.
• Fairway water on the right: 278 to reach, 317 to carry. Drives that finish short of 278 stay clear; otherwise the left side is the safer line off the tee.
• The fairway is about 33 yards wide at 235.
• Hazards guard both sides of the green; aim for the middle.
• The green falls from back to front, about 1.5%. Finish on the front side of the hole for an uphill putt.

Hole 2 · Par 4

325 (Black) · 317 (Gold) · 286 (Purple/Green) yards · Handicap 11

Plays like

335+29 ft

Green · Black tee

311 · 325 · 337front · middle · back

Green size

29 × 24yards deep × wide

Fairway

36 ydswide at 211

Green slope

4%falls to the front-left

In play

• Bunker left: 173 to reach, 185 to carry
• Bunker across the hole in front of the green: 309 to carry
• Bunker front-right of the green

Playing notes

• Plays about 10 yards longer: the green sits 29 ft above the tee.
• Dogleg right at about 250 yards.
• Fairway bunkers on the left: 173 to reach, 185 to carry. Drives that finish short of 173 stay clear; otherwise the right side is the safer line off the tee.
• The fairway is about 36 yards wide at 211 and narrows to 30 at 250.
• Hazards guard both sides of the green; aim for the middle.
• The green falls from back-right to front-left, about 4%. Finish on the front-left side of the hole for an uphill putt.

Hole 3 · Par 3

189 (Black) · 184 (Gold) · 161 (Purple/Green) yards · Handicap 15

Plays like

191+6 ft

Green · Black tee

168 · 189 · 207front · middle · back

Green size

41 × 22yards deep × wide

In play

• Bunker front-right of the green

Playing notes

• Plays about 2 yards longer: the green sits 6 ft above the tee.
• The green is guarded on the right by bunkers; miss left.
• The green is 41 yards deep: a back pin can play about 3 clubs more than a front pin.

Holes 4 to 18

4 · Par 55 · Par 46 · Par 47 · Par 38 · Par 49 · Par 410 · Par 411 · Par 412 · Par 413 · Par 414 · Par 315 · Par 416 · Par 517 · Par 318 · Par 4

The rest of this guide has the same caddie detail for every hole:

• 15 plays-like yardages
• 38 hazards with reach and carry
• 14 green slope reads
• 2 par-5 lay-up zones

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Hole maps, hazards and playing notes come from mapped course data and USGS 3DEP elevation (public domain), not a visit. Plays-like numbers use the Skitty caddie's rule of one yard per 3 ft of rise, from the longest tee; altitude uses 1.16% of carry per 1,000 ft. Tees, hazards and conditions change; check with the course before you play. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0) via OpenGolfAPI. Scorecard yardages and ratings as published. See a mistake? Email [email protected].

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