Pohick Bay Golf Course

Not a very long course but due to its layout it forces you to practice discipline from the tees. Greens were still recovering from aeration but should be great in a week or two. Roughs were a bit high which adds to the challange when you’re off the fairway.

It’s getting greener, with most bunkers up to par. Greens still had a little bit of sand left over from the aeration but not to bad.

Staff is great. Pace of play was excellent. Fairways need work.

Used to love Pohick, but the back only maybe 2-3 holes have grass in the fairways. The rest look like a floodplain that then got hit with a drought and us now covered in crispy seaweed. Staff are always friendly, driving range is cool. Pace of play is atrocious, 2h35m to play 9 is ridiculous for an 11:40 weekday round. I bailed after 9 because I couldn’t finish 18 in time to pick up my child from daycare.

Course was still wet from recent rains (not the course's fault) and the grass really hasn't started growing in the fairways yet. Had to roll the ball to get a decent lie but not a big deal. Seems like the greens had been punched and sanded within the last couple of weeks. Despite that, they rolled true and were pretty fast. In a few more weeks, the greens should be in great shape. Pace of play was excellent despite a Sat 8:10 tee time.

We played and teed off on Sunday at 11am and I cannot complement the pace of play highly enough. Got around a full 18 in JUST over 4 hours, which in my opinion is phenomenal for a public course at the beginning of the season.

It was a fairly interesting course, with some holes which opened up around a dogleg to be completely different than you saw on the tee, which is very fun. The greens were almost unplayably fast, given how tilted they are on the whole. They're punching next week based on what I saw, so heads up :)

I wanted to get in one more round here before they aerate the greens the first week of April. I was disappointed to see the white tee-box on #12 were up-front again versus last week when they were at the old tee-box further back, which makes the hole interesting and challenging, versus a 280 yard par 4 'nothing hole' (on a course who's selling point is that it's challenging). The nicely-raked wet sand (after 2 days of rain) in the back-left bunker on the par 3 # 11 turned-out to be only 1/4 inch deep, which hid a solid bed of large (golfball-sized and larger) rocks, one of which left a gouge in the leading-edge of my new Cleveland Zipcore sand wedge.

A dry, mostly sunny day in the low 70s in mid-March was enough to break-out the golf shorts for my first visit in 2022 to my most-played course. Course conditions were very nice, despite technically still being Winter, the greens were great (they will aerate them the first week of April). I'm going back tomorrow (3/25).

Greens aerated 2 weeks ago so little bumpy and sandy. Otherwise conditions were fine. Pace of play was good and friendly staff. Coarse layout can make for a lot of lost balls even on solid shots, can be a bit frustrating.

Look, I get it. Top-dressing greens is essential for their long term health. But before spending almost 70 dollars a warning that the greens were covered in sand would have been appreciated.

There’s a lack of grass in the fairways. Bunkers are amazing.

Great course that I play many times each year. This regional park golf course will challenge your skills as there are a lot of forced carries. There are several intimidating pin placements and a lot of decision making to be had. Having said that there are several chances for birdies. It's a course you have to play a few times to appreciate.