Plumas Pines (along with Graeagle Meadows) hosted the first Club away trip to the Graeagle area back in 2000. We’re not sure which came first at Plumas Pines – the golf course or the community of homes, but it is a tightly compacted set of golf holes through the trees and water features. It is the shortest of the 3 courses we play in the Graeagle area from the Men’s Tees, but the longest from the Women’s Tees. Plumas Pines regularly plays as the toughest of the 3 courses on CGC away trips.

Another beautiful weather day, with hardly a cloud in the sky – with many more trees in and around the fairways on this course, shade is much more available throughout the round. Part of the golf challenge at Plumas Pines is the narrower fairways (with feelings of hitting through a chute or corridor on many holes) – there is definitely the sense of swinging more for accuracy than for distance. The fairway grasses also don’t release much, your ball is more likely to pop up at landing than rolling out down the fairway or onto the green. The course again played the toughest of the 3 courses on this trip – over 5 strokes per player higher than the first day at Whitehawk Ranch.

The front nine played over 2 strokes more difficult than the back nine (15.7 over par vs. 13.5 over par). Plumas Pines has some visual shots that just enhance the beauty (and uniqueness) of the course – the Men’s Tees at the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 13th holes, in particular, so we felt a bit hamstrung in some places where we could modify the tee boxes to soften the course from a scoring perspective. Even in some places where we did move up a tee box ( 2nd, 8th, 18th), the group still averaged a double bogey per player.

Only one (1) of the 21 players scored less than net par 72. Fourteen (14) players shot scores of net 80 or higher.

The Flight winners on this day were as follows:
1st: Bruce Hoffman, net 73 (by 3 strokes over Rhonda Johnson)
2nd: Diane Hoffman, net 71 (by 3 strokes over Stella Garin and Rick Givans)