Reston National Golf Course

Never seen a course so horribly maintained. Losing balls in the fairway, greens thick as my carpet, & tee boxes all torn up. Ohh also they were out of range balls for an hour. Can’t believe they charged full price. Heard they have a new owners, looks to ran by a bunch of libs. Won’t be back.

Save your money and go to some other courses in the area that are just as far. The ownership I think has given up on this course for the year. Maybe try it next year and see. Terrible course conditions. The fairways are so long you can’t find your ball. The tee boxes are mostly chewed up. The greens are probably rolling 3-4 speed , like apartment carpet.

Played this course three days after last weeks rain ended so it was very wet but the course has been HORRIBLY maintained. The greens were basically carpets, the tee boxes were either sandy and bare or completely overgrown and the worst was that most of the holes had fairway grass longer than most rough at normally maintained courses (the rough was even longer). They obviously had not mowed in almost a month if not longer so losing golf balls in a fairway was a first for our group. Did not finish our round and the club pro admitted that they recently lost their maintenance director recently but that’s no excuse for not maintaining the course at all and still charging upwards of $80 for a round. The pro did admit that a full refund was deserved but since our group had mostly booked a hot deal we had to get our refund through GolfNow. Unfortunately, GolfNow decided that since we tried to play that we only deserved compensation for the holes we did not play despite the whole course being unplayable and the staff admitting we deserved a full refund so 0 stars to GolfNow as well. Do not play this course until they get their conditions playable!

Played Reston National Friday 10/4/24 . This course is in the worst condition I have experienced here in 12 years I have played the course. The grass has not been mowed properly for over 2 weeks. The last 2 owners of the course are speculators hoping to profit on developing the lucrative real estate of the 17th and 18th holes because they are close to the Metro. local citizens are in opposition to developing this open space.

The owners are obviously not golfers. This course used to have the most tee time starts in the state for a public course, now no one is interested in playing here with poor conditions and high greens fees.

The owners have removed original designed bunkers on over half of or more of the holes instead of fixing the bunkers properly.

The only hope of saving this course would be to sell the course to Fairfax County and transform this course in to a great course like Laurel Hills or Twin Lakes Oakes course.

Or maybe the Northern VA Park Authority could take it over to add to Algonkian, Pohick Bay, and Brambleton courses.

Please someone save this course from further ruin..

The fairways on this course were about 4” deep. Our group lost a total of six balls in the fairway. Looking for balls in the fairway, severely affected the pace of play for all groups on the course that day. The head pro, Tyler, was an absolute pro and refunded us explaining that there was a new superintendent. However, the course should have been closed until the situation was resolved.

I’ve played here several times and while it’s never been great, it’s always been okay. The “fairways” are a joke, 2-3 inches long. If you miss a “fairway” or a green by 2 or 3 feet you are in 6 inches (US open style) rough. We all played fairly well and took almost 5 hours because we had to search for balls on every hole (even in the fairway). When you got to the green they were like shag carpets. It’s hard not to think think they are biding time to sell the land. The pictures attached are a ball in the “fairway” and a ball about 5 feet off.

If you love 6 hour rounds and fairways that look like the rough, this is the place for you! Tee'd off a bit after noon and didn't make it in until ~6PM. Waiting at every single tee box for 5-10 minutes. Then when you finally hit your drive, even if it's dead in the middle of the fairway, have fun looking for it! Seriously some of the longest fairways I have ever seen, sometimes not even being able to see first cut. Whoever manages this course should be embarrassed of themselves. I will not be coming back and will be vehemently steering anyone I know away from this course. Its sad too because the course layout is actually quite nice, but the conditions were just unplayable.

Spent 3 hours playing 9 holes and needed to get a raincheck as there wasn't any way we could finish 18 before the sun went down. The fairways were very rough, they need to be mowed. At times it very hard to find your ball in the middle of the fairway. If your ball was slightly off the fairway, you most likely lost it.

Course was in terrible condition. Fairway grass was the longest I have ever seen

This was my first time playing there. Beautiful layout and long and challenging course. T box and fairways are not maintained very well.

I’ve played here many times but yesterday wasn’t a good experience. The course really needs attention. The fairway looked like the rough, the rough looked like a field. Made the experience grueling.

Formally a member but have not come back for about 10 years and what a disappointment. Tee boxes,fairway, greens are so slow & divots over all was in real bad shape.

Course is coming back. Fairways aren't burnt up. They still need to do something about the teeboxes, though. The white teeboxes are the most used tee boxes and they just look like bunkers. We've gone beyond sad and have arrived at pathetic. There's really no valid excuse for this lack of maintenance. Any staff worth their salt knows that, even if you don't want to move the teeboxes around for all the tees like you should, you HAVE to move around the most used teebox or it's going to get just destroyed in a few weeks. Reston National is unable to grasp this very basic concept and, for that reason alone, the general manager should lose his job. He stands convicted of his own actions. Not one word needs to be said for or against him. Just go to every teebox and green and decide after 18, if you haven't made the call by then, if this guy deserves to keep his job or not. Speaking of greens, they're not as bad as they were a few weeks ago, but that's strictly due to the change in weather. It's obvious that they are not being cared for either. The fairways did not seem as torn up as they were a few weeks to a month ago, which is likely almost entirely due to getting some water from the recent rains.

Aside from that, staff is nice, but I'm starting to accept that this is entirely dependent on who happens to be working, as some of them just shouldn't be in customer facing positions. That said, the vast majority of the staff are not just polite but they are actually nice and trying to make sure that you enjoy your day.

The bottom line for this course, in my opinion, is that based on the prices that other courses are charging, this is probably the best value in the area. I would say there are only two courses that would challenge the value here and I would say that one of them isn't in the same category, so it's not a fair comparison. The two courses that would challenge Reston National for best value are Stonewall(of course) and Herndon Centennial(ok, I know, but hear me out). Herndon Centennial is a well maintained course that, because of it's simplicity and lack of length, is a really good course to build your confidence or to break whatever score you've been trying to break. You want to break 100 from the whites or blues? Go to Centennial. It's like playing from the reds at Reston or Stonewall. So, the only "big boy" course that I would say could challenge Reston for value would be Stonewall. Stonewall is just a massive upgrade all the way around and so there's no point in breaking it down, point by point.

Fairways are not healthy with bare spots on almost ever hole. Rough hadn’t been cut in so long the grass laid over and no ball could be found unless you were standing directly over it. Charged $40 for a cart!

I have been playing this course for about 25 years, on and off. It used to be in fantastic shape, but the pace of play was typically around 5 hours. Especially if you teed off after 10am. Pace had improved, but the conditions have suffered.

Tee boxes and fairways were in very poor condition. Rough was so long, you could lose a ball right under your feet. I found 12 balls within 15 feet of the fairway. Greens were mostly in good shape, but rolled very slow, unlike the practice green which was great. Driving range is great, but price of alls was higher than most places and the balls are pretty beat up.

The walking rate was only 59 so at least it was a reasonable price.

Food and drinks are good and also reasonably priced.

Course is in pretty good shape, greens and fairways nice