South Riding GC: #18
A view from the 18th green at South Riding Golf Club.
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4.1
646 Reviews (646)
5 Stars
131
4 Stars
296
3 Stars
124
2 Stars
51
1 Stars
44
Conditions
4.1
Value
3.6
Layout
4.3
Friendliness
4.5
Pace
4.1
Amenities
3.6
82.8%
Recommend this course
507 out of 646 reviews
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4.7
6 Reviews (6)
5 Stars
4
4 Stars
2
3 Stars
0
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.8
Value
4.2
Layout
4.3
Pace
4.8
Amenities
4.6
StaffFriendliness
4.8
100.0%
Recommend this course
6 out of 6 reviews
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4.2
33 Reviews (33)
5 Stars
14
4 Stars
14
3 Stars
3
2 Stars
2
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.2
Value
3.6
Layout
4.3
Pace
4.3
Amenities
3.4
StaffFriendliness
4.7
81.8%
Recommend this course
27 out of 33 reviews
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Course Highlights
South Riding's varied and challenging layout stands out in Northern Virginia, with notably strong greens that consistently impress compared to nearby courses. Friendly staff and a smooth pace of play make for a well-run round on a course that remains a hidden gem in the region.

About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Par 72
Length 7148 yards
Slope 140
Rating 74.8

South Riding Golf Club is nestled in the gentle hills of northern Virginia, enjoying a landscape of hardwood forests and grassy meadows. The course offers a variety of challenges but the fairways are wide and player-friendly and the greens can be tough in spots but overall they offer some room for error. The layout requires both strategy and skill, it is definitely not a golf course where you will be able to just "grip and rip it." The course pinpoints your weaknesses but it is still a fair test. South Riding Golf Club's eighth hole is memorable for its difficulty but it's an interesting hole sine there are many ways to play it. At 351 yards, the hole is a short but intimidating dogleg left that will tempt you to go over the trees. The fairway is generous but the saddle-shaped green is flanked with bunkers.

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Course Details

Year Built 1997
Fairways Bent Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Dan Maples (1997) Michael Gleason (1997)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
GPS Yes
Pull-carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

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

Policies

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

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Reviews

4.1
646 Reviews (646)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 14
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 22
Forced Carries 16
Water Hazards 16
This course/club is great for:
Locals 26
Advanced Golfers 13
A Weekend Splurge 8
This Course's Location is:
In the 'Burbs 27
Near the Airport 20
Worth the Drive 11

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Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0

Course needs attention

The course needs attention...especially the rough. Hit decent drives that should have been able to be found because not far from the fairway and the ball could not be found. Found others by shear luck after much searching. Shouldn’t have to search that hard 2-3 feet off the Fairway.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 20-24
Skill Beginner
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 15
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 36
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Wet weather
Used cart

tee box

the fairways were full of dirt the rough was uncut and the tee boxes were awful

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Rough

I love this course. But the conditions right now are rough. Every single tee box is destroyed. All either burnt out or not well maintained. The fairways are also in bad condition. Greens are decent. Bunkers great condition. Overall right now it’s not worth the 90$ ish for the round.

Conditions Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played

Avoid at all costs

I am literally writing this review while on the course. How do I have time to do that? Because I'm currently on pace for a 6 hour round. Waiting 10 minutes on every tee box with no course marshall to be found anywhere.

The atrocious pace of play aside, the course is in awful shape. Tee boxes are just dirt ground with no grass, fairways are dirt, and greens have weeds growing through them.

I paid $65 to play here and that was about $60 more than it's worth with these conditions.

DO NOT PLAY HERE

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
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First Time Playing

Oof

Tee boxes were almost entirely dirt. Rough was far too long and filled weeds/crabgrass. Pace of play was terrible especially for a weekday

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 15
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
3.0
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Pleasant exurban course but in bad shape

If not for the bad turf conditions, this would be a pretty nice course, despite being routed through a housing development (not my thing). It's pretty straightforward although with a couple of short doglegs and holes where a big hitter might have to pull less than driver, and a couple of forced carries over marshy areas which I'm not a fan of.

The turf conditions are terrible right now. A few fairways have big patches of dry, cracked mud with no grass, I'm sure from the hot, rainy summer, and some of the greens have dead patches around the edges too. A few tee boxes looked like they were undergoing maintenance, but some were also in poor shape.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 5
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 32
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played
Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

South Riding is Hurting

South Riding has been s a local favorite of mine but it pains me to say it's in really, really bad shape. Diseased grass tee boxes almost on every hole. Greens overrun with weeds around the first cut. It's been getting worse the last several years. This last round was not enjoyable at all. I will not be coming back until they hopefully get it back to acceptable conditions. The staff was great as always however. Given the pandemic and the amount of money they'll need to fix the course, I hope they can survive.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Below Average

The pace of play was great once we let a twosome, that was hitting into us, play through. The pro shop had 1 brand of golf balls. The breakfast sandwich was decent.

The course was in the worse shape I have ever seen course of this price...Unfortunately they lost a lot of groundskeepers due to COVID but the tee boxes barely had any grass on them. The rough was over grown by many inches. The tee boxes on the par three were even worse.

I played this course as a recommendation of it being a nice course years ago but it is not now. The course needs A LOT of TLC! It had also rained a lot recently which did not help the situation at all!

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0

Worst golf course ever

This place is trash, looks like trash. I’m a good golfer who shoots in the low 70’s and this place is legit horrible. The ball gets plugged and the fairways and tee boxes are in horrible shape

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Walked

What a shame!

Really love this course and the layout but man its in pitiful shape. Between the sorry "golfers" there that dont feel the need to repair a divot or a ball mark.....ever have really ruined this course. Wont be back until maybe next spring but this course is not taken care of by grounds staff or the golfers playing it. What a shame as it could be a great course to play if it were in better shape. Worst Ive seen in a while.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course is a disaster

Course was in horrible shape. A small portion of the issue related to prior rains, but the vast majority of the issues did not.

Vast majority of tee boxes were dirt. Rough was crabgrass that hadn't been mowed in a couple of weeks. Numerous pooling puddles. Smell of raw sewage in places.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
First Time Playing

Disappointed

Picked based on reviews. Both rating and number of reviews. Large clumps of grass everywhere. Pot holes all over the greens. Literally dead tee boxes. I mean start over dead. No grass dead. Left after 13 due to the ridiculously slow play. Will not return. Oh and $65?!?! Highway robbery. Hopefully they spend that money on grass seed.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 43
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Mostly Good with Some Challenges

The course is generally in good conditions with some notable exceptions. A large number of tee boxes are in really bad shape. No grass, many divots etc. Having said that, nobody in our group had their feel slip due to it. The fairways were mostly in good condition with some major wet areas (due to recent heavy rains) which required us to move our balls. The rain also meant that some of the rough couldn't be mowed for a while so it was thick. Again, I'm sure the course will catch up when it dries out a bit. The greens were receptive and rolled very nicely which in my opinion, was the most important thing. Drink cart came by about three times during the round. I'd go back again at the $58 rate I paid.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 13
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Tee boxes and greens were in deplorable conditions

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
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