South Riding Golf Club

Recently moved back into the area. I hadn't played this course in years and was pleasantly surprised. The course is fairly well disguised for being in a densely populated suburban community. Greens were in great shape and overall condition was good. Only gripe would be terrible sand quality (which plagues every course in NoVa, and really is inexcusable...I'm not expecting Caribbean sands, just take out the rocks and rake it) but few bunkers will really come into play. Not a ton of challenges, especially if you keep the ball in play. This course is a good, fair test for your game...just not a destination course that's worth a day trip for. Good value at $50 or less. I would be underwhelmed if I payed the rack/weekend/holiday rates.

Overall, the course is in excellent shape and it was an enjoyable round. The only noticable problem was the bunkers which were filled with rocks and contained standing water.

I was lucky. the tee time was the hottest time during the day, but the price was good. I played by myself and had enough time to think about my game management and shot rythm. I enjoyed the day.

This course charges pretty good money for very average maintenance. The bunkers were strewn with rocks that were embedded the bottom. There was standing water all throughout the bunkers an most had mud not sand coating the bottoms. Most of the bunkers were a disgrace.

The staff was disinterested in the customers. They gave no warning of the conditions nor did they even speak much to the guests. The starter was zeri help. There was no sign for the first tee and it's a was away so you end up wandering around looking for it. Same on 10.

The fairways and greens are good but do yourself a favor and drive down to 1757 Club for the same money or find one of the regional courses for less. You get about the same experience.

Enjoyable layout with no badly designed holes. Fairways were in excellent condition. Greens were very good, with a couple of exceptions that had dead spots.

Bunkers, however, were terrible. Most had to be played as ground under repair. No sand, just dirt or mud with ruts and rocks. Not raked or conditioned in a long time, from the looks of them. They appeared abandoned. Almost like they all were being redone - if not, they certainly need to be. Very surprising, considering the condition of the rest of the place.

Rack rates are quite high. Wouldn't play without GolfNow discount.

I've played this course many times over the years and cannot recall another time when the bunker conditions seemed so poor. Many, many holes had bunkers with hard ground / pebbles instead of decent sand. No. 17 is undergoing a renovation of the greenside bunkers and the ones with new sand seem fine. The entire course needs a bunker renovation! Otherwise, fairways and greens were oin good shape.

Driving range closed. Starter very cooperative. Guy at pro shop less than friendly

We played this course on a day after it had rained the night before. Cart rule was 90 deg. and fairways were dry and had drained well, but all of the bunkers were lakes, completely full of water. The course obviously does not care about having maintenance try to pump the water out. I understand being subject to weather but not maintaining the course for normal play is not a good sign. I lost a couple of balls that were hit into the bunkers because you can't find your ball under all that water.

Otherwise, the course is a nice layout and good value for the discounted rates we got (about $40). I wouldn't pay more than that. There was no beverage cart at all. Some holes have houses really close to it and you need to be careful hitting your golf shot. Someone in our 4-some did hit a ball into a homeowner's backyard.

I like this golf course. It is the place near my house,and not too much crowded.

I really liked this course . I think once the weather completely changes it will be infra better condition.

Had a great time finally got some good weather, course was in good shape given the winter we had.

Overall our experience was dissapointing for many reasons. First of all the course is thrown inbetween 10 different neighborhoods through the south riding area. Yet, there is only one way into the club house and if you don't know it you'll spend a good 20 minutes driving aimslessly around. There are no signs to the course and when we called the person in the pro shop they had no clue how to give us directions and basically told us good luck finding it. Once we did finally get there we were told to just follow the path around the club house to the first hole and guess what ,there were about 4 different paths we could take, and none said where hole #1 was, to make things even more ridiculous none of the holes actually have any markers or numbers on the tee box...where is the common sense. Fortunately, we were able to find another golfer and ask them and they told us which tee box was for hole #1. The course was in pretty poor shape between the goose droppings, mud, and uncut grass. And the course was not managed well at all in terms of pace of play, it tooks us just about 5.5 hours to play which is horrible. At best its a $25 round type of course if you like to wait to hit each shot, hopefully they will continue to clean it up and take care of it better.

green was very good.
staffs are very friendly.
i will play next time.

Staff extremely friendly. Course in decent condition considering the recent weather. Great value...pace of play for a Saturday was great.

The course was in good shape considering all of the rain and cold weather we've had (cart path only) guess God had a plan for me to get alittle exercise ;) Found a great "hot deal" on golf now and got paired with some really nice guys. We had a blast! Love the layout of the south riding golf course. Will definitely refer to a friend and be bad playing there soon.

2nd time i have played it. Greens are demanding. Lots of slope and undulations.

This course has some nice features. The carts come equiped with distance measuring equipment and also provided college football scores. In addition you can order food as you get to the 9th hole, so its ready when you make the turn.

The course itself is very well maintained. Greens were very fast. Fairways were for the most part wide enough to be forgiving and made for keeping the ball in play reasonably easy. Nice for the occasional player who typically shoots in the 95-100 range. May not be challenging enough for stronger players, although playing from the gold tees makes it a very very long course.

Finished about 5:30 and wanted to have a beer but the clubhouse was closed.....otherwise enjoyed the day.

Found a $65 deal on Golfnow.com and was a little worried the course might have some aeration or other maintenance going on, but that was not the case. The course offers relatively generous fairways for the most part and most of the greens are quite large, so you can find yourself with some substantially long putts even though you G.I.R. count might be up. The course was in great shape, fairways were full and firm, greens rolled true and fast enough to make you pay close attention when you were putting downhill, some areas in the rough were a bit on the dry side, but hey, it is the rough, you get whatever you get for not hitting it where you are supposed to hit it. A couple of the bunkers were a little rough, but again, what are we doing in there in the first place, I think the PGA should make their bunkers much less friendly so the guys are actually penalized for hitting into them. Chad in the pro shop was very friendly and helpful, the starter got us out right on time and we played in just a bit over 4 hours on a weekend morning. What more could you ask for.

Our foursome had a great experience. Staff was fantastic. We teed off on time, on-course cart service was convenient, and clubhouse was good.

This is an enjoyable course with spacious well-maintained fairways. Greens are generous in size but have some undulation & were fast when we played. There are very challenging pin placement options on most holes. Though not a fault of the course, thoughtless players had left a number of ball marks. The holes are well designed, however there is often a long drive from green-to-tee so this is not a course to walk. A real plus - carts are equipped with a GPS system which provides plentiful yardage references. Course could use a few more directional signs. Biggest negative -- the sand traps. Nearly all are too thinly sanded & unworthy of the course & green fees.