South Riding Golf Club

Overall it was a good day. Weather was good, pace of play was good. Greens were not in real good shape.

I really like this course. Even though it is set up inside a housing development, you really don't notice the houses on many holes. The lay out is challenging yet fair, with a good number of tee boxes to select to match your game. The greens were in good condition, even for the end of summer.

Haven't played here in several years and the course was in good shape. It was extremity hot outdoors but the course had water available. The staff was friendly and the snack bar was reasonably priced. The rough was very difficult to advance from so stay out of that and the collars are challenging too.

This is a decent course in an upscale neighborhood but the course is rather mundane except for a few holes (certainly #12 stands out) and there are a lot of houses practically on the course and road-noise from cars driving right by this course. #16 green you play a par3 with cars driving right behind the green. It is a large, long course with some good carries (esp #1 from the back tees) and some challenging holes, but overall the course is in at best average condition and is only moderately interesting. It's not bad but it's just not great. Just too wide and too flat and the greens are a mess (though still decent to putt on) and overall the course is no real challenge. It does have decent "air" and it's in a decent neighborhood with a nice clubhouse, it's not some backwoods course back in the middle of the woods somewhere. It's a decent course to play on occasion and respectable for that part of DC (certainly there are worse courses near Ashburn, like Brambleton), a place you could respectably take friends or clients to play, but in the overall sense it's just slightly above average.

Good layout overall very nice course, but.

Still recovering from aeration & several bunkers are under construction.

May want to give them a few weeks to get it together.

Saw the beverage cart twice

But never saw the ranger even though we asked for help with the golf by committee group in front of us, who had nobody in front of them.

Again nice layout well maintained with the few above temp issues.

Don't forget your GPS, not very well marked.

Great playing conditions and pace of play. Also a very good value for a Saturday morning. Fairways and greens in excellent condition. Could not have had a better day, thanks South Riding.

Decent course. We went on Memorial Day weekend and the pace of play was great. The only issue is that the roughs were way too long. If you hit a drive off the fairway then consider that a lost ball. The only time I could see my ball in there was when I was physically running over the ball with my cart.

The course was acceptable with some needed maintenance especially greenside bunkers, run up areas and skirt areas, otherwise worth the money ,will be back.

I really enjoy playing this course. It provides various tee boxes to select according to your ability. All holes are fair, and you can shoot around par if you keep your ball in play. There are some forced carries, but all are manageable if you play the correct tee box for your ability.

Fun challenging course, great bargain rate.

One of the bettwr courses in the region.

Friendly staff.

It had been a while between visits to S Riding. My initial thoughts were that the course was significantly over watered like most of the N Virginia layouts. S Riding wasn't. The course was firm, greens quick, fairways firm. The rough hadn't completely grown in as yet, but overall I loved the course conditions. The greens had multiple grasses in them, but they were firm and rolled great. Someone should tell the est of N Vrginia golf courses that all over watering does is make their greens ball marked to death, and slow. Thanks S Riding...very nice day!

Good layout, some challenging holes, some fairly easy. Overall conditions pretty good. Some areas of the course clearly need attention but good for the most part. No beverage cart on a Friday.

Overall good course. There are several bunkers that are in some state of repair, and seem to have been that way for a while. Houses are present on the course, but they don't crowd in that much. Greens were in good shape, and good layout, they just really need to get the bunkers under control. Very walkable, but there are three of four holes that have a very considerable distance between them. Good value if you can nab a spot around the $60 mark.

This was my first time playing South Riding, and we got a decent rate for $50 on a Saturday morning. There was no internet working at the course when we got there, and so they had to take down our credit numbers and charge us later...no big deal, but a bit surprising. I hit a small bucket of balls to warm up before my round, and I was a bit disappointed with the condition of the range. There is a grass hitting area, but that was closed since it is still early in the season. That's not my biggest complaint. The issue was that the range mats were atrocious! They were on a slight incilne, and so the ball at times would not even stay in its place. Surely for the money that this place charges, they can do better than that. I frequent Westpark a lot, and the mats there are in much better shape. There was a nice putting green and chipping area, but I didn't use those.

The course itself was in pretty good shape! The fairways were in very good shape, and the ball definitely had some good roll on them. The greens as well rolled very nice for this time of year. There were a few bunkers that were still being repaired, and so it was a free drop under GUR rules. It wasn't too many that were being repaired, and so hopefully in due time they will be done. The ones that had been recently renovated were in really good shape. The tee boxes were also in good shape.

The course definitely has some interesting holes; driver is not necessary on a lot of them, and so choose wisely. The short par-4 17th was definitely a fun hole to play. There were a couple of long par 3s, but nothing too crazy. Overall it was a good round, and we were out at 8:30, and were not pressed for time at all. We let a twosome play through, and we still finished in under 4 hours as a foursome. I generally shoot mid 90s and I shot right in that range from the blue tees; it's a challenge for sure, but it was an enjoyable Saturday morning round of golf.

I won't play this on the weekend any more. The course is completely backup. If you have 6-7 hours to play 18 hole, this is the place for you. It took us 4 hours to play 13 hole. It is the worst experience ever.

South Riding, routed through a housing development, pulls off the illusion of making you forget about that fact. A pseudo links style design with a wide variety of holes that is usually in good condition, this tract will keep you interested start to finish. Not overly long or difficult, it still requires strategy to score well. During this recent round the bunkers on holes 1 thru 8 were being rebuilt and ground under repair. The rest of the bunkers were superb. As a side note, the sandwiches after the round were superb!

I played here on Tuesday. I like to play on the weekdays as the pace of play is generally better....not today, played a four and half hour round, played behind a group of five women...never have I been to a course that allows a fivesome, let alone a five some of women. It was awful, one bad shot after another from all five of them.

To give you an ideas of the slowness. I played in a two some with a friend we Teed off around 1145. On sixteen a single caught us and asked to join us for the last few holes. We got to talking while we were waiting and he teed off at 130, we all finished together at 415pm. Miserable

Course looks like it's been through a monsoon and drought, fairways in terrible shape. Ladies tees bare. Front 9 bunkers under repair. Practice area in even worse shape. Not worth the rate. Wait until next year to play and hope course gets back in shape.

Bunker was rock!!! It is not sand!!!
a lots of potholes...
It was nice course but now....it's not good time to play here.

Ongoing work on bunkers, especially front 9 (free drop) detracts for an overall good experience. Fairways and greens are soft (from watering). We like the course and staff, so will continue to keep this venue in our rotation.