Pohick Bay Golf Course

Greens are nice and very fast at times and staff did a great job maintaining course after a couple days of rain

This was my first time playing this course and my friend and I decided to walk. It is a beautiful, well-maintained course, but be advised that it's extremely hilly. You know you've really had a good workout when you've finished playing 18. Nice driving/putting range and very friendly/helpful staff. Course was very wet, so played a little tougher than I imagine it normally plays. Well worth the trip.

I'm extremely impressed with this muni course. The starting hole gave me serious concern because it is a pretty severe sidehill downhill shot, and I was thinking to myself what have I gotten into. :| Even though that was a recurring theme, including lots of sidehill uphill shots as well, it wasn't excessive to the point of being annoying. They had not been able to mow for several days due to rain, so the rough was I think more extreme than normal and very heavy. Thankfully, I stayed out of it most of the day. The greens were very receptive, immaculately groomed and ran pretty well even though they were damp. There were good maps and suggestions on the marble hole markers. Pay attention to hole 11 though, the tees have been moved WAY up, like 70 yards. The card is correct, not the hole marker.

As always, if you want to score then take a cart. If you are more into fitness, then walk. This course will wear you out and fatigue will be a factor if you walk, especially in the heat. I saw plenty of watering stations. No refreshments cart the day I played. Not sure if that was because of the weather and number of players or not.

The staff was very friendly overall, and seemed to be very attentive and made me feel like they were genuinely glad I was there at their facility. Safe to say, that is RARE. It was my first time at the course, and the starter asked me, by my first name, at the end of the round if I had enjoyed the course. It took me a second to respond because I was so shocked. That reinforces the notion that they care. Again, rare.

Bottom line, I see this course being a once a month for me. I look forward to playing it in dryer conditions though, with less punishing rough and faster greens. Hope that day comes soon. This place is definitely a public course gem and worth a visit.

Good course, great condition, fun to play, highly recommend

...it's not a bad course but they overbook it and charge a lot to play it and the course has a lot of verticality and can be really hard for short players, players who can't hit straight, and it always is full of middle-aged and elder players so the pace is always so slow and things tend to spiral out of control there.

There really is not much to talk about this course in terms of "golf". it is maybe a C on the scale of difficulty and in terms of layout, both. The fairways are wide enough to invite you to hit the ball wildly into the trees. They are really not long enough to be a challenge from the back tees. Not really tight enough to be a challenge from the fairways. I would say the course is more of a junk-ball pitcher, it certainly is not a flat course with the holes right in front of you. Just about every hole except #7-#9 has some funk to it and is a decent challenge in some way. But it is not really "hard". That is a critical shortcoming...it is challenging (and expensive) enough to keep "serious golfers" coming back to it, but not hard or expensive enough for them to give-up playing it so they tend to collect here like driftwood and clog-up the course. Believe me, with Ft. Belvoir, Forest Greens, Augustine and the Gauntlet right down I-95, Generals' Ridge, Lee Hill, Twin Lakes, the list goes on and on... there are much-better, tougher courses relatively close nearby for the same money. I think this course may be fairly impressive the first few times that you play it but after that it will lose its luster simply because it is so expensive for what you get out of it in terms of golf and the pace of play is so, so so slow. It's really just a little too easy and the people who play here just take it too seriously, while on the other hand they are rarely good enough to match their level of seriousness..and they're slow. You'll be pulling your hair out by the 5th hole. I guarantee you that 5 hours will seem like a good round to you. I have played with people quit in the middle of the backside and start over at the front.

Bombs away off the tee not always required. Smart tee shots to specific locations goes along way. Hit to your desired yardage locale and you will enjoy this course. Nice forced carries offer challenges. Strategic pin placements offer challenges too. Course is in great condition. Pace of play may be an issue. Play with patients and enjoy the day.

First time playing here and was really fun.I got the hot deal from GolfNow app,$20 for 18hole with carts,can't beat that!This course really makes you feel like you're away from the city bc of the abundance of trees and also there's a wild life refuge close by.Over all I would definitely come back here and play again.

Loved the greens and the elevated tees/greens. A must play.

I'm a beginner and never played this course before. I had a tee time at 0630, I was by myself a placed in a group with three regulars. Tough course- did not break 100 but still had a great time. I will definitely be back!

Nice facility and very friendly staff. Course is not long but it is challenging with mostly blind tee shots and sloping fairways. Course was in very good shape.

Was an enjoyable course to play with some challenging holes. Good for golfers of any skill level

Rained significantly the previous day but course was in good shape. Some very challenging holes. Helps to have played course before as important for knowing how to play certain holes.

Needed Marshall's out on the front nine to push pace of play, By the time we saw them on 13 everything was behind.
We were walking as foursome and caught the two foursome groups who were in carts in front of us twice.
I believe everyone was simply enjoying the weather but it killed the speed of play for the round.

Pohick does not include the cart fee until you book the tee time. Then you find out that there is a cart fee...This did not go on last year...I am terribly disappointed...the course was in bad shape with greens being top dressed, yet no discount was offered..

Course was great, but I think the greens fee is to high for the value of the course.

For what you pay, this is a great course. Tight fairways, challenging par 3s, and great greens. No complaints here

I was very disappointed with the starter. Teed-off #1 at 11:30, and the pace of play was great. We kept-up with the group in front of us, and we never waited for any shot through the front. At the turn, we ran inside for a beer, came back out to #10, and found out the starter had inserted a foursome in front of us. It was all downhill from there. When the starter drove by on #14, we mentioned the poor pace of play (a two hole gap between the two groups in front of us. He guffawed and drove on. Very poor volunteers. Pohick must do better!!!

The green were in great shape. It was a windy early spring round. The course was in good shape for so early in the year.

love this course, mostly because it combines tight, narrow holes with a couple of wide open ones that you can really whale into. it is definately challenging, but also fair. the one thing i will say is that you need to know where to miss; a bad shot here will make you quit the hole. the course, along with many other public tracks, is also in desperate need of a competent plan and personnel to combat slow play. too often there are bottlenecks created by slow players who are not regulated or staggered in their start times. 8/10

Very nice course the people playing on this particular day where not vvery friendly. They where on our Backs the whole time and hitting into us while we had to wait for the four some infrin front of us.