Lake Presidential Golf Club

First, let me say the course is gorgeous, challenging, and not one you can bring the driver out to the tee. Greens are equally challenging, roll true, and the course is pretty well taken care of, with a few exceptions.

The parking lot was littered with trash, overflowing trash cans and blowing around in the parking lot. This could have been from an event the night prior, course negligence or a group of rowdy teenagers the night before leaving a mess for others to clean up. Regardless, it wasn't a great first impression for a $112 tee time.

Fairways... golfers here must never replace/repair their divots, the tight course means tight landing spots where, without proper repair, means you will constantly find your ball in someone else's divot.

Staff was friendly, and I plan to return. If my observations were off, I'll adjust my ratings.

Great Course, very fun track.

If you have been to Lake presidential or you’re going to go to Lake presidential I’m sure you will meet grumpy man who sits out front in a golf cart.

I was there an hour before the group of 3 I was matched with. I had picked up my cart and was hitting balls at the range. When I picked up my cart, the gentleman was immediately rude about me getting on the wrong car, even though I was on one of the three at the front (usually it’s not that big of a deal). But he was very particular. I can get past that. When I went. To the 1st tee box the same guy who was rude about the individual cart I needed to take demanded that I get off my cart and join on one of the other carts. I offered and would have rather pay for that cart. (mind you it was a Friday morning. They were not that busy if it was a busy day or a weekend I would have completely understood.). I told him I would like to pay in order to take the cart, he ignored me. I would have probably not paid any attention to the situation with his attitude until he started grabbing my personal items and putting them on the other person’s cart YOU DONT DO THAT. I remember this guy from the last time I played at presidential for no other reason except for his attitude. Completely unprofessional and extremely rude. AND not to mention, we had to call the club to bring us out another cart on the front 9 because our cart died I was fuming.

Staff was disrespectful and unprofessional. Maintenance crew wouldn’t move out of the way when you were playing.

We started at 11:51am and ended our round around 6pm. The pace of play was terrible. Too many holes were cart path only for no reason. This course is challenging and cart path only when all conditions were perfect and no rain? I will have to say I will not be returning.

This course is truly great as far as public golf goes. Fairways are nice, greens are always in good shape, and it’s hard enough for a good challenge, and easy enough for the mid—high handicappers if you’re playing the right tees. I would recommend anyone in the area to come check this bad boy out.

Pace of play was awful. 6 hours for the round. The course was over booked to the point that carts were not available at the tee time. Over priced and extremely slow. Would not recommend

his place is joke. They are unreliable no one here cares about customers. I drove here straight from work to get some range work in, have a golf trip on Sunday. Arrived at 6:40. People are inside said they shut down at 6:30. They just wanted to leave early, poorly run. I offered to pay cash so that they didn’t have to give me charge I just wanted to hit some balls. No one here understands how to run a course properly. I’ve tried to give them the benefit of the doubt over the past few years but I’m done, tee times too close together which causes pace of play issues, they charge way to much for how poor the course condition is, traps are not well kept. These are all symptoms of a business that does not care about their customers. I use to play here a few times a year. I’ve brought different people here for professional business outings. I’ve taken lessons here and the pro that use to teach moved on due to their poor customer service as well. They just don’t care, do yourselves favor and go anywhere but here because you’re only supporting a company that does not care about its customers.

Arrived for a 12:30 tee time when we got to the first hole starter said there was a 45 minute delay. The pro shop staff never mentioned it prior to us paying. Past few times I have played there has not been a Marshall on the course to enforce pace of play. General consensus of other players I have talked to, is the same as mine, the course managment of deteriorating and it is showing in condition of the course and organization.

Four years ago, I promised I’d never play here again after paying $120 for a round in mid-July that took 6.5 hours. I legitimately came down with sun poisoning that day.

As always, the course packs too many tee times in, with most groups being about 9 minutes apart. That cadence works great at a private club, but at semi-private courses, tee times should be closer to 13 minutes apart to account for inevitably slow groups.

That said, pace wasn’t an issue this time, but that’s because we teed off before 8 am. The course itself was in ok shape. It’s just not that special, the layout is meh, and it’s generally not worth the money. Also, we only saw the cart girl twice—on number 8 and on number 18.

I didn’t have a terrible experience this round, but it reinforced my conviction that people should play somewhere else that’s around the same price point for a better experience.

Good layout. Tee box and fairway need improvement.

Challenging and exciting course, I loved it. Would definitely play again.

This course is very challenging course.

Lake, Woods, I really enjoyed playing this course. Definitely, the best course in D.C and Maryland area.

Also, price is very reasonable.

I played here $100 15 years ago. But now $130 on weekend.

Thank you

Great Course. I went out on Christmas day. Greens were still well maintained. Clearly, The fairway looked a little bit rough, but that was because of the season we were in. I still had a great time and my playing partner loved it as well, who has played several tour courses, like Augusta, so he knows a bit more about courses than I. I cant wait to go back in the spring/ summer