Lincoln Hills Golf Club

Lincoln Hills Golf Club's Hills Course is a Billy Casper and Greg Nash design that opened in the late 1990s as part of the master-planned Lincoln Hills retirement community in Placer County, roughly thirty miles northeast of Sacramento. The course serves as the centerpiece of one of Northern California's larger active-adult communities, and its routing takes advantage of the rolling Sierra foothill terrain that characterizes this transitional zone between the Central Valley floor and the higher elevations to the east. The design works with natural elevation changes and incorporates the native oak woodland and grassland landscape typical of the region. Casper and Nash, who collaborated on several Northern California projects during this period, shaped a layout that balances accessibility for the community's resident membership with enough strategic interest to engage skilled players. The routing moves through varied topography, with several holes playing uphill or downhill and others occupying more level ground along ridgelines and in small valleys. Lincoln Hills operates as a private club primarily serving residents of the surrounding community. The Hills Course is complemented by an executive-length course also on the property, providing members with options for different pace and length of play. The facility reflects the growth of golf-oriented residential development in the Sacramento region during the 1990s and early 2000s, when foothill sites offered both available land and appealing settings for courses integrated into housing communities.