Reston National Golf Course

The starter is friendly and a pleasure to see before teeing off—great tips and super welcoming. They were aerating the tee boxes, but that didn’t have much impact. Course is on the shorter side, but still can be challenging from the tips.

For the money, a good value.

The tee boxes and fairways definitely need some repair and help. The greens have been aerated so hopefully they will be good eventually. Too much drainage through the fairways. It definitely needs some work to get it back to where it used to be.

Nice course, but many of the fairways were barren and the rough was uncut making it very deep in places. The course manager air-aited the greens by poking 2-inch square holes which made putting very difficult. Overall, not a bad experience.

Unfortunately, 2/3 of the fairways were filled with dried, crusty mud and no grass at all. A few times I hit drives in the fairway and I chose to drop the ball in the rough and play it there. There was just no grass anywhere near my ball in the fairway.

The greens were in good condition, however, though they had been punched recently.

I’ve played Reston National more than any other course this year and really appreciated them staying open through COVID. Through Spring and early Summer, the course was in typically great shape but what on earth has happened? I played after a wet day so expected the course to be a bit waterlogged in places but put simply the course should have been closed. I walked but stood in amazement when watching other groups churning up fairways in carts on a cart path only day. A lack of marshaling may have contributed to this.

But the real crime is the state that this course has been allowed to get into. The course management should be ashamed of themselves or preferably fired. I’ve taken this off my list of courses to play until I hear that conditions have improved.

I would recommend everyone give this a miss for a while

I was extremely disappointed in the condition of the course. I know the weather has been very hot lately, but we have also had some rainy weeks. This was our second course of the day and the other course we played was a similar price point and was in much better playing condition. Almost every tee box was in horrible condition as there was very little grass. The boxes were almost all dirt and clumps of weeds. Many of the fairways were in awful condition as well. There was caked over dirt that was breaking off into pieces instead of grass. On a couple holes the sprinklers were turned on during an afternoon round and the water smelled like sewer water. It wasn't pleasant to have to try to hit off of rock hard fairways while being sprayed with foul smelling water. I think this course will be crossed off the list of courses our group plays for a while.

On a positive note the staff members we interacted with were all very friendly.

Horrible golf course. Fairways mostly dirt and tee boxes dirt mixed with crabgrass. Not work even $25 for a round.

Convenient to get to off the toll road, right in Reston, and with a nice and challenging design, this course could be OK, but it was in really rough shape. Tee boxes with almost no grass on par 3s, a ton of bald spots on fairways. Greens OK but few fixing divots (not the course's fault). No free range balls despite high price of greens fees, pads for the range, and aging golf carts with no gps. Friendly and helpful staff. Course could be a lot better if in better shape.

Weve play twice a week since March.... first time playing here because it’s pricey... We honestly couldn’t believe how horrible the conditions here were. Hard catches kid and grab grass all over the fairways, tee boxes were basically dirt and leaves, and greens were full of divots. All for $100?! East Potomac looks like a PGA course compared to the shape that Reston National is in - I’m not sure how they’re getting away with this. Very disappointed and don’t waste your money until they fix things.

Almost every fairway is burnt to bare dirt. Tee boxes are all ragged and bare. Just terrible. Can not believe they are charging full price for this. The course really needs to be closed for repair.

Bunkers are bone dry (and at the same time, have standing water in half of them) with weeds growing, tees are barren and slanted, and fairways are about 25% dirt.

The fairways are a bit of a mess now with all the rain. I really miss an engaged starter who greets you and tells you who you are playing with. I lately have had to ask "Am I up next?" Its the small things that make the course.

Staff is friendly always a wave and a smile. I like it. They also need a Marshall on the weekend. the fairways are not going to get better when patrons ignore the cart path only rule. I will still be playing there every weekend.

great layout. Got behind a slow foursone that took 2 and 1/2 hours to finish tne first 9. Marshalls finally got them going on hole 14.

Bunkers horrible for a course fee of $80 on Friday. Fees never get less all day long , doesn,'t make sense. All courses drop fees as day gets later. All freqennt player advantages taken away this year. Sad for freqent golfers that want to play more rounds here. I now have to play elsewhere if iplay 3 times in a week.

No loyalty to freqent golfers. Senior discount is only saving grace but it is not in effect on weekends.

Complete waste of money. I’ve played this course dozens of times and new management has officially rendered it unplayable. Entire course is covered in crab grass. Fairways are dirt. Bunkers are under water. A total embarrassment to what once was a beautiful course.

I actually would not have as much of a problem with Reston National if it was priced correctly. I played this course on a weekday afternoon for a price of $70, which led to the assumption that, quality-wise, it would be in line with other courses in the area like Blue Mash or Whiskey Creek (both of which are actually $5-10 cheaper) which are consistently well-maintained with a reasonable pace of play. This course is basically a glorified version of East Potomac Blue (which charges about $30-35 per round at the same time/day). The tee boxes are nothing short of an absolute disaster -- patches of crabgrass overgrowth all over the place, and huge swaths of divot sand everywhere else to the point where it was difficult to find a place to tee up a driver where your stance wasn't uneven or in a divot rut, let alone hit an iron off a short tee or on a piece of turf. Since there had been a fair amount of rain in the area prior to my round, there is a level of understanding I'd have for certain conditions being temporarily worse, but this far exceeded that. The majority of the fairway grass was barren and muddy to the point where I'd have staked it as ground under repair, but at that point you'd have so much ground staked that you'd basically have to shut the course down. Which brings up another issue -- it didn't look like any of these problems were being actively resolved. None of the tee box divots looked to have been reseeded, and the crabgrass hadn't been mowed in weeks. The drainage on the course seemed nonexistent, and multiple bunkers weren't just standing water -- they were full to the point where you could legitimately lose a ball in there. The greens weren't awful -- and I'd expect them to roll a little slower and hold a little more given the recent rain -- but you could see the same level of negligence there, stuff like huge barren muddy parts where cups had been cut in previous days/weeks. I wasn't expecting a phenomenal pace of play, and the group in front of us seemed to be both inexperienced and not quite understanding of how to keep up the pace of play, but they were also waiting on a few holes, and the wait we had on every single tee box was absolutely brutal ... just round-killing bad. And their wait makes me think that the tee times were managed poorly. Which brings me to the final point about the course, which is, to be fair, entirely out of Reston National's control ... the. gnats. are. AWFUL. They should sell beekeeper hats in the clubhouse, it was that bad. I played the entire round, in 80-90 degrees, with a towel wrapped around my head between shots just to make it bearable. It was truly the icing on the cake standing on the #2 fairway, having hit two tee shots off of patchy tee boxes and another shot off of mud in the fairway, waiting 10 minutes to hit an approach shot, and realizing that I'd both been robbed of $70 and I was going to be swarmed by gnats for another 16 holes. I was legitimately tempted to walk away after nine. If you want to play a low-key round for a reasonable price, go to East Potomac. If you want to spend more money for a higher-quality course, do not do it here.

40 minute delay due to having no carts, course was in terrible shape. Fairways were dirt and mold. Good thing the beverage cart women was so nice.