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3.5
726 Reviews (726)
5 Stars
232
4 Stars
350
3 Stars
95
2 Stars
26
1 Stars
23
Conditions
3.3
Value
3.5
Layout
3.9
Friendliness
4.3
Pace
3.7
Amenities
3.6
66.0%
Recommend this course
638 out of 726 reviews
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3.7
18 Reviews (18)
5 Stars
5
4 Stars
6
3 Stars
5
2 Stars
1
1 Stars
1
Conditions
3.2
Value
3.5
Layout
3.9
Pace
3.9
Amenities
3.8
StaffFriendliness
4.2
61.1%
Recommend this course
11 out of 18 reviews
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3.2
65 Reviews (65)
5 Stars
10
4 Stars
17
3 Stars
22
2 Stars
7
1 Stars
9
Conditions
2.8
Value
3.1
Layout
3.7
Pace
3.5
Amenities
3.6
StaffFriendliness
4.3
50.8%
Recommend this course
33 out of 65 reviews
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Holes 18
Type Public/Municipal
Par 71
Length 6197 yards
Slope 126
Rating 69.7
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Herndon Centennial Golf Course
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Course Details

Year Built 1979
Fairways Bent Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Year round. High Season: 03/15 - 11/30
Architect Ed Ault (1979) Tom Clark (1979) Tom Clark (2005) Bill Love (2009) Tyler Rae

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Pull-carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Indoor Practice Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Appropriate golf attire.

Food & Beverage

Snacks

Available Facilities

Clubhouse
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3.5
726 Reviews (726)
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Reviews 7
Handicap 20-24
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
3.0
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Previously Played

Expensive for the quality of course

$65/round is a lot for this course. Rough was not cut in a week. Greens however were decent. Sand was not turned in a while.

Need to place a ranger at hole #4 (Par 3) 15 minute back up as people spend too much time looking for balls in left trees.

Conditions Average
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

This course is in great shape!

First time I've ever played this course, I'd never really even heard about it. The course is in excellent shape for a municiple course and offers a challenge for every level of golfer. The layout is pretty nice and I couldn't have asked for a better pace of play on a Monday afternoon. Great value! Great public course!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Got to keep it in the fairway at Herndon!

Keep it in the fairway and you'll be in fine shape. The greens are in excellent shape!

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great for a Muni!

This is a municipal course and thus gets lots of play. The conditions are great, considering. Not overly long, but challenging, especially from the back tees.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Nice course. Could use some repairs

Nice course. Fairways were in good condition. Tee boxes and areas around greens need better maintenance. Carts are a bit slow. I enjoyed our group's round.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 7
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Pleasure to play

This course was a pleasure to play. It was hard but fair making it perfect for the moderate to new golfer. The course was well maintained and the staff very helpful. The pace moved along very smoothly with credit given to the starter for spacing the groups out well. A must play for anyone who just wants to have fun.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Either fix the fairways or lower the green fees.

This course is a relatively relaxing 18 to play on a Sunday. However, in several big stretches the fairways are in very bad shape creating bad lies for good shots. If they can't keep live grass on the fairways, they need to lower the green fees and take their place as a sub-par hackers discount course.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Excellet Condition

Course was in excellent condition. I am a long hitter (290+) off the tee and the course was a bit short for me. Greens seemed to roll true and hold very well. Decent amount of bucker trouble out there but overall it is a course you can score on.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 20-24
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great course but horrible staff

The starter did not seem like he knew what he was doing. My tee-time was for 1:45pm, I came in to check-in at the pro-shop for my tee-time at 1:15pm there was a guy ahead of me who had a group of 4 with a 2pm tee-time. I guess the guy at the pro-shop is also the starter because he told the group of 4 to go ahead and tee off if they are ready. I checked-in right after and asked if we could go ahead of them since we are a group of 2, since if we tee'd off behind them we would be pushing them the whole round anyways. The starter seemed unhappy with this request but he went ahead and told the group of 4 to wait for us. We immediately rushed out onto the tee box in less than 3 minutes. After both of us tee'd off the starter came up to us to say "if I would of known you 2 would be so slow I would of let the group of 4 hit first." Unbelievable. Well maintained course though, champion tee is a bit short but good course.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 224
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Top 25 Contributor
Virginia Advisor
Previously Played

My Home Course For A Reason

When I moved to Reston a year ago, I thought Reston National would end up being my go-to home course. But once I played Herndon Centennial, I changed my mind in a heartbeat.

For the money, Herndon is one of the best-conditioned courses I've played. The grass is always lush, even in the heat of summer, and the fairways and greens always play very consistently. The only exception to this is that some holes don't drain as well as they could and as a result, you'll find some soggy spots if there's been rain in the past few days.

Otherwise, the course has a standard layout, nothing too crazy. No blind landing zones for your tee shots, just a nicely groomed, fair course. Pace can be a bit slow during busy times (there's a sizable gap between #3-4, #8-9, #10-11, and #15-16 due to a road and bike path crossing which can slow you up if you have walkers in front of you). Be wary of league days (usually Mondays or Fridays) that makes things slower.

Still, the course is a decent value and it's not one that will have you cursing at the end of your round. I got a one-year membership here last year and played the course about 25 times or so. Never got too boring.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 88
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played

This course is great, easy, but too many slow players, usually a 10 minutes delay on every t-box

is too crowed, very slow, no pace of play..........

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 43
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Well maintained course from tee through green. Keep it out of the trees and you can score well!

Played on a Sun morning. Teed off right on time and never waited on the group in front. Fairways were in very good shape. Rough was reasonable. Bunkers were a bit firm but we had just had a few days of rain so I doubt they had time to go back through them. Would've been nice to have more drinking water on the course and a drink cart. Greens were smooth and not very fast. Played for $65 and would go back again.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great place to play

Not every course can, and shouldn't, be Raspberry Falls. If there weren't moderately prices munis and public courses the sport would be more exclusionary than it already is. Herndon is terrific. It's a little short, so I like to play from the tips. The greens are challenging, with plenty of slope. Good practice area. As for clubhouse and restaurant, they have all that, but I'm about the golf. The quality of a clubhouse has no bearing on whether I like a course. In fact, i prefer a lousy clubhouse, because that keeps the poseurs away. The staff are folksy and laid back, not the phony nonsense you get at Reston. I prefer the Reston course, but Herndon has fewer houses and no one walking through with their dogs.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 76
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 1000 Contributor
Previously Played

Has potential

Herndon Centennial is a decent layout over gently undulating terrain. The tees and fairways were in good condition, but there were hundreds of ball marks on the greens (perhaps too many hackers with little thought about etiquette playing there). Maintenance folks need to give some attention to peripheral areas where weeds (lots of poison ivy) and brush abound. No, I didn't get in it, but some that I played with did. With a little more attention to detail this could be a good looking course.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Nice Course--Good Value

Very nice round. Course is in excellent shape! We had a good round of golf, the pace of play was good and the course was in super sondition

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0

Good course

Good course. Good shape. Enjoyable course. Moderate challenge.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Excellent course but very busy.

This course was very well maintained. Unfortunately it was very busy for a weekday and we were constantly pushed to play a faster game than normal.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Good Fun Course

The course was in pretty good shape, but the greens had been recently punched making putting difficult. One would think there would be a discount for this, but since this is Northern Virginia, this is par for the course.

Good course overall, but not too challenging.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Nice Course Good Shape

Good course in western Fairfax County. The course was crowded for a Monday afternoon, but the paste was excellent. The course had several Marshall's patrolling, and kept everyone moving along. The staff was very friendly, and help us looked for errant shots.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser

Nice course with staff issues

It's a nice and fairly well maintained course, but the staff leaves something to be desired. I could care less about that, because I just went there to play golf, not to be catered to. On the other hand, it wasn't the type of experience you come away from with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
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