Osprey Meadows Golf Course is an 18-hole championship

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in the

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, located at

Tamarack Resort Tamarack Resort is a four-season destination resort in the western United States. Located in west central Idaho in Valley County, it is miles north of Boise on the west shore of Lake Cascade, southwest of the small town of Donnelly. When ...

near Donnelly, Idaho. Designed by Robert Trent Jones II, it opened in May 2006, and was rated by ''

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'' as the top public course in Idaho in August 2015. Built along the northwest shore of

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, its average

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is approximately above

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. Located about north of

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, Osprey Meadows debuted its first nine holes in September 2005, and the back nine was ready for play the following spring. The majority owners of Tamarack Resort filed for

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in February 2008 and the resort was closed in March 2009, but the golf course opened that July and continued operations through the 2014 season. It did not open in 2015, due to ongoing proceedings and ownership issues and was sold in 2016.

Scorecard

*The tees' names correspond to the difficulty ratings of

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runs.

Video

YouTube
– Osprey Meadows Golf Course at Tamarack Resort by Air (2013)

References

External links

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