Royal New Kent Golf Club

I’ll definitely return and given the current drought and heat conditions in the area, the course was amazing. Savanah was a great assistant in the shop, and we flew around the course. Great track for sure.

Really nice course, difficult with lots of blind shots. Enjoy playing there, staff were nice and friendly. I recommend playing this course.

The peace to be able to play a 4 hour round on a very challenging course on weekend is well worth the price.

As a huge fan of Mike Strantz designs, I’ve played Caledonia three times, True Blue, and just hit Tot Hill Farm last week. After watching the Golf Channel and Bob Does Sports episodes, I was incredibly excited to finally tee it up at Royal New Kent.The layout itself did not disappoint. It is absolutely amazing, highly unique, and offers a fantastic challenge. To top it off, the staff was great and incredibly welcoming from the moment I arrived.However, I was surprised and a bit let down by the course conditions. Several greens and fairways were rough around the edges, and there were too many small, unattended maintenance details to mention. It's a bummer because the bones of this course are spectacular. I love the routing and will definitely come back, but I’ll wait until the conditioning improves to match the world-class design.

Among the worst greens I have ever played. The fairways are also in need. Very cool layout, it is ashamed that it has been so neglected.

My foursome and I selected this course as the signature course of our 48hr trip of 72 holes. We were extremely excited to play a unique course alongside a few more traditional ones.

Before I continue, I will give the context that when we played, this area of the country was in an extreme drought. Even still, the greens were like putting across a braille page. Like playing plinko. The tee boxes were very bare and hard to find large patches of grass. The fairways would have 30 yards of barren grass, or be a minefield for small green tufts of grass.

In summation, this was the worst value for a round of golf I’ve ever played. I paid $90 for that round. I maybe would have paid $30 for fair value.

Will not play again until they manage the fairways and greens.

The course has a great layout and super fun but the course was dead greens looked awful and the fairways were dead and patchy.

I played RNK 2 years ago and thought it was very nice but right now, This course is NOT worth the price they are charging. Fairways are lacking green grass in many areas: The greens have been recently sanded with bare spots on most of them: Tee boxes are also lackluster. No water, ball washers or trash cans on the course: In addition, no beverage cart. Staff is nice and friendly so thats a plus, but RNK should reduce their green fees until they fix these problems.

The course was challenging but very enjoyable at the same time. The staff were all nice and very welcoming. Special shoutout to the starter, she topped us off with ice cold water at the turn. The greens had patches in them but it’s been very hot lately. The carts have course tracking in them and was very useful for yardage to the hazards.

Royal New Kent is another Stranz masterpiece. It's extremely challenging with lots of ravines, carries, fescue, creeks, deep bunkers and blind shots. No hole is the same, and you really have to think your way around this course. Unfortunately, RNK took a beating from the cold, icy winter and the greens and many fairways are in rough shape. I recommend the course because of the layout and challenge, but you might want to wait until it recovers. Luckily, I had the Tee Time Pass so instead of paying $84, I paid $60.

Played RNK for the first time in 12 years. Layout is a blast if you like Strantz courses.

Staff extremely friendly. Unfortunately, VA has had a tough spring with little rain and the course conditions were marginal at best. The greens rolled pretty good but they have a lot of bare spots. The fairways were hit and miss....some were fine and some had a lot of winterkill. I hope they get some rain and cooler temps. If you know what you are walking into you'll enjoy it....if you are expecting pristine conditions then find another course to play.

Have played this course at least a couple times a year. First time this year in 2026. A crazy amount of fungus, dead grass, and painted green dirt on fairways and greens. Course is usually difficult with the amount of blind shots but the care for the course makes up for it. Sadly it was not the case this time. Placed food order at 8 tee box for the turn & when we went in, proceeded to be told that only two items were on the turn menu now and needed to be reordered. Posted menus and drinks were incorrect & a let down. A once fun course to drive to play is now not worth the time or $. Pace of play was great though for Thursday morning.

Greens are in terrible shape

Fairways and tee boxes are not much better

This was rated one of the top "must plays" in the Richmond area. Teed off at 8:30 in the morning to avoid the rain that's coming around noon. The course layout is every difficult for the average gofer (I'm a 12 handicap), it gets frustrated after 9 holes. prepare to loose a few balls for the round. The course was not in very good condition especially the greens, very spotty, dead patches on every green, and putts are very jumpy.

Great layout and a challenging course. Not sure if it was due to the drought here in the middle of May but the fairways were struggling and many of the greens looked very bad. Most of the cart paths give you the impression this course was forgotten about 10 years ago. If this place got a little money put into it it would be an amazing course.

The course layout is great. Greens were fast. Due to a severe drought in Va the course was pretty dry and brown. Hopefully we get some rain soon to green it up.