Old Hickory Golf Club

We hadn’t played here since Covid broke out, and amenities were very clean and felt safe. Course was in great shape.

Great club house. Staff super friendly. Thanks to over populated Northern Va, Covid, and a few other things, course like Old Hickory can unfortunately fill up with people, charge a lot, and your asking yourself if you playing in someones backyard or a course. Then you see the backyards of the houses are actually much better kept, you may be confused about what it is your actually playing on. Point being the course has turned to awful. But this company has completely gone to crap. Bull run, rasp falls, also gone to crap. Over priced courses in nice neighborhoods with awful grounds keeping. Its not going to get any better anytime soon bc were all stuck paying these prices for awful courses. Cya in the cow pasture next week

It is sad because I love the layout of this course. I paid $85 for a weekday morning round. I played this course last spring as well but at $95 weekday round. Last spring it was not worth the $95 because of the shape the course was in and I told myself I would give it some time to come back before playing it again. It is in a nice community and good membership and at the time reputable management company, so I figured it was just going through some rough times and it would come back.. Fast forward to this morning I paid the $85 thinking “well I gave it a year and a couple months to get back into the course I remembered serval years back. I was very disappointed to see the shape the course was in. Fairways were almost unplayable, tee boxes were some of the worst I’ve seen in Northern VA, putting greens were in some spots not puttable because of the crab grass or bare spots were they killed the crab grass so it was just mud.. The collars were non existent you had rough then extremely low cut freshly rolled greens no transition. It was cart path only because they didn’t want you to drive on fairway not because of weather but because they were almost unplayable and any more daily wear and tear just from riding cart on them had the potential to make it unplayable. This slowed the pace of play down for a 5.5 hour Friday morning round. The tee boxes/ yardage was extremely confusing I played the yellow which on card says roughly 6600 and it played probably 6100 because of the location of the tee boxes. The score card had the whites at 5900 yards and they were sharing with the reds on almost every hole.so the white only played I am guessing about 5500 yards. There are so many better options to play in northern Virginia for well under $85. I will not be returning until I read better reviews coming from this course.. I was disappointed in myself for not checking reviews before booking. This is my first time ever writhing a review but I felt it is necessary to let people know what they are getting into before dropping that’s kind of money.... one last grip is there driving range is not my cup of tea because it’s mats only and you can’t hit wood or drover only irons off the mats...

I hope they get this course back in better shap because it is such a nice track when maintained better.

All that said I did shoot 79 but at has to do a lot of replacing of the ball because areas in fairway was unplayable so I didn’t feel right recording today’s round for my handicap even though it was a good round.

First time playing this course after living in the area for a number of years. Round took 5 hours waiting on every tee box for the group in front of us to clear the fairway. They weren't good, but then again neither are we. No ranger in sight. I believe for $85 the round cost on a weekend morning, you can find much better value and quality elsewhere. Course wasn't in great shape either, but not sure if that's because of covid or that's just how it is.

Been playing here for years. The last two years it get worse and worse, half the greens have holes / divots j them the traps are unplayable. It’s sad this course used to be great what is going on??

I have heard about Old Hickory for some time and very much looked forward to today’s round. Unfortunately, the course played incredibly slowly (nearly 5:30 with a five some in front of us and no ranger in site) and was in very poor shape. There was a wedding booked at the facility (in the middle of the pandemic) which shut the bar and grill area down for golfing patrons for the entire day.

The fairways were shaggy and overgrown. The greens were patchy with bare spots (blight?) and crab grass pushing through. The rough was unplayably thick in some spots and barren in others.

My foursome was told by the attendant that COVID caused the course to get away from them. But having played several courses of varied regard in the area over the past few months (including the RFM-managed Augustine, which was in great shape) Old Hickory was in decidedly worse shape than all of them.

Simply put, think twice before you choose to play Old Hickory. Hopefully they can get it back to something close to reputation in the coming months. It was an unfortunate disappointment today.

Firstly, the whole layout of the course seems to be an accident or an afterthought. A few holes here, another few there, and so on. I could get past that, but something seriously needs to be done about the course itself. The grass is terrible, especially the greens. Crab grass has invaded everywhere on it, and just mowed down to the same level to what real turf is there. Holes and patches everywhere. Stones, gravel and drainage pipes, yes drainage pipes in some of the sand traps. The fairways were like roughs, and about 50% bare. It's absolutely incredible that they would even consider charging for this. I will never go there again and would advise anyone looking at this location to stay well away and spend your money elsewhere.

Course is in poorest condition possible without going out of business. I’ve been playing Old Hickory for five years and up until today I found all aspects of the course to be well kept and above ave for NOVA area. Today the tee boxes were sloppy, the fairways were divot riddled and un-repaired, and the greens were flat out rotted with some form of widespread blight. The course is still asking top dollar to play but provides only bottom dollar golfing experience. Won’t be going there again this year. Hope they get there act together for next year.

The weather has really done with job and many of the course. Old Hickory is one of the worst I've seen.. carts had to stay out of the fairways and could only go in the rough. They have reseeded the fairways. So they have a lot of bare spots.

Course needs to shut down for a couple weeks and recover. I get the demand right now but clearly not spending any money to take care of it. Terrible condition and not even trying to fix the issues. Tee box’s, bunker and fairways unplayable. $100 rip off. Starter, ranger, cart lady and turn house attendant all great.

I love this course, so it is hard to see the 20+ day 100 degrees really took its toll on the fairways and greens. :( I have faith that the staff will work hard to get the course back into shape for the 2021 season.

Fairways were poor on some holes, crab grass, needs maintenance. Still a great layout. But currently its difficult justifying green fees for such conditions.

This used to be one of my favorite courses. Now it is in terrible shape. Every green is diseased, most of the fairways are all weeds, horrible. Terrible shape and a real shame.