The Edgewood Tahoe Resort is a golf resort in the

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, on the south shore of

Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe (; was, Dáʔaw, meaning "the lake") is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. Lying at , it straddles the state line between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake ...

in Stateline,

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. The venue has hosted the 1985

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and the annual

American Century Championship The American Century Championship is a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada, United States. It is held during the second full week of July at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Stateline, at the shore of Lake Tahoe. The course is at the southeast edg ...

since 1990. The site where Edgewood now stands was previously part of a ranch adjacent to Friday's Station, the historic 19th Century

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station and inn. The Park family bought the ranch in 1896 to raise cattle, and in the 1960s they decided to build a golf course on their property. The golf course was originally designed by

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and opened in 1968. George's nephew

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has since renovated the now course from time to time. The resort hosted the

NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe was a series of two outdoor regular season National Hockey League (NHL) games, held on the weekend of February 20–21, 2021. Both games were played without fans at a rink on the 18th fairway of the Edgewood Tahoe Re ...

series on February 20–21, 2021. The

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defeated the

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3-2 on February 20, and the

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defeated the

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7-3 the next day. The series served as a replacement for the

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and Stadium Series for that season, both which were cancelled due to the

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* {{Golfcourse-stub Golf clubs and courses in Nevada 1968 establishments in Nevada Sports venues completed in 1968