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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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Golfer Photos
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Photo submitted by tcolegate on 08/03/2026
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Photo submitted by wirthjm on 01/07/2025
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Photo submitted by jNdpmsH7x3U2qpXpHYOT on 09/16/2024
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Photo submitted by DCRoK75 on 08/15/2020
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Photo submitted by SkOmflBE1YV1QYWxflmn on 08/09/2020
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18th Green Photo submitted by BenThapa on 08/15/2018
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The Clubhouse Photo submitted by BenThapa on 08/15/2018
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Beautiful Greens & Flowers Photo submitted by BenThapa on 08/15/2018
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1st Tee Box Photo submitted by BenThapa on 08/15/2018
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1st Fairways & Rough Photo submitted by BenThapa on 08/15/2018
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Club Members Photo submitted by BenThapa on 08/15/2018
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Photo submitted by u8601108 on 07/19/2018
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Photo submitted by u8601108 on 07/19/2018
Golfer Reviews
Good Course To Play
The course has begun to show the effects of the summer weather conditions. Several dead or bare spots on the tee boxes and fairways. Course was wet in areas and cart rule was cart path only.
Fun layout, decent conditions, great price
So. Riding is in decent shape this year. A few tee boxes are under repair, the greens are fast, and the rough is tall. It forces golfers to know their iron distances, and pick where they want to miss. A good course for golfers of all levels.
The rough was not cut and thus if you hit your ball into it there was a high probability of not finding your ball and the tee boxes were in horrific shape Absolutely not worth the money we paid
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.
tee box
the fairways were full of dirt the rough was uncut and the tee boxes were awful
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!