About
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good Round
I got teamed up with 2 other singles. None of us knew each other but we were all good golfers and enjoyed our round together. Staff was great!
Has potential
The course was in rough shape this past weekend. The fairways were green but there were a lot of swampy areas on them and around the greens. I had more than a few plugged balls during my round. The tee boxes were either completely dead or so swampy that it was tough to find a good area to tee off. One of the holes, number 2 I believe, had so many cicada killer hornets on the box that we moved to a different tee.
The bright spot for the course conditions were the greens. Although they have tons of ball marks (looks like not a single person fixes their marks when they hit the green), and were over-watered and soggy in many areas, they are green and rolled pretty true when you didn't have to putt through a ball mark.
Overall, this course is in bad shape compared to some of the others in the area. Especially when you consider that for $10 or $15 more per round you can play a really nice course.
Tee boxes are terrible
The tee boxes are terrible. Many of them are down to dirt and sand. Hard to find a good spot for tee shot. Wait till the Fall to play this course.
Challenging layout. Course was very firm. Greens were a little hairy, but rolled true. Pace of play was odd. There were multiple singles on the course, which slowed play down. Should have been paired up.
This course needs some help
I live in this community and have played this course numerous times over the last twenty years. The course is usually in very good shape regardless of the time of year. Currently, there is a lot on this course that needs attention. A number of the tee boxes are completely burnt. The tee box on hole #2 has a number of in ground hornet nests that make it dangerous to tee off from the designated area. All the sand traps throughout the course also are infested with smaller hornets or some other type of flying insect. This makes it tricky to hit any shots out of the trap. The fairways are in good shape and most of the greens are also in good shape. On the cart that we used there was no water in the ball cleaning attachment. We played on a 90+ degree day and there was no cart person on the course providing drinks to purchase. I would stay away from this course for the near future until they get some of these issues resolved. I've played some county course recently that were in better shape then South Riding.
Tee boxes no beverage cart.
a tee box should have a sprinkler near it so a tee box might have grass. Also, on a 97 degree day where there is no water on the course, they should ensure that there is a beverage cart driving around.
The staff said to me danm it.
I knew i was late to tee time just one minute. So, i apologize to starter sever time. And i apologize tobmy team either. Even my team still waiting on first tee. But i heard the stater said to me 'danm it'.
Thank you for playing and we are glad you enjoyed your round!