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4.2
431 Reviews (431)
5 Stars
204
4 Stars
129
3 Stars
50
2 Stars
29
1 Stars
19
Conditions
4.0
Value
3.8
Layout
4.6
Friendliness
4.3
Pace
4.2
Amenities
3.9
85.6%
Recommend this course
355 out of 431 reviews
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4.0
34 Reviews (34)
5 Stars
18
4 Stars
6
3 Stars
4
2 Stars
3
1 Stars
3
Conditions
3.7
Value
3.5
Layout
4.6
Pace
4.0
Amenities
3.8
StaffFriendliness
4.1
76.5%
Recommend this course
26 out of 34 reviews
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4.2
51 Reviews (51)
5 Stars
30
4 Stars
10
3 Stars
5
2 Stars
3
1 Stars
3
Conditions
3.9
Value
3.7
Layout
4.6
Pace
4.2
Amenities
4.0
StaffFriendliness
4.3
82.4%
Recommend this course
42 out of 51 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Resort/Public
Par 72
Length 7020 yards
Slope 144
Rating 74.7
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Potomac Shores Golf Club
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Course Details

Year Built 2014
Fairways Latitude 36 Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Jack Nicklaus (2014) Jacobson Golf Course Design (2014) Chad Goetz (2019)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No

Food & Beverage

Bar, Grill, Restaurant

Available Facilities

Banquet Facilities, Lockers

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4.2
431 Reviews (431)

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Played On
Reviews 95
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Top 500 Contributor
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

Combo Tees Between Gold & Silver; Beautiful Layout

Gold 6355 & Silver 5800. Any thought of combo tees? Beautiful layout. Holes 7 & 8 are awesome. Definitely will be back even with a 1hr 10 min drive.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 29
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Used cart

Very good!

Conditions were great. Course layout is very good. I'd play it much more often if it wasn't so expensive. This is the place where I take friends when they are in town.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

Bring your A game or stay home

What a stunning course from tee to green. Not for beginners. If you’re hesitant on what tees to play, play up. Absolutely fantastic condition when we played. I literally couldn’t imagine better. Some of the reviews on here are bordering absurdity. Show me a better maintained course within 50 miles of here that isn’t private and I’ll show you a liar. 5/5.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

It Depends

Very nice course conditions. Interesting and challenging layout. Not a great course for beginners. Enjoyment will depend alot on who's in front of you and their pace of play. I've played 18 in 3 1/2 hours. I've also quit early after playing behind a group that took 2 hours and 40 minutes to play the front nine. Probably could use someone helping to push the slow pokes.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Jet3

Okay -I have read the many reviews about the course. So, let me share my opinion. First, in full disclosure, I live in Potomac Shores and the Pro Shop is 3 minutes from my garage. I have played the course 5 time this year in rain, wind, and warm weather. I have also played or been on at least 50 courses from Bethpage -Blue course to the Palms course at the Orlando Disney property in the past year. Jack Nicholas' Signature Potomac Shores GC is outstanding and on par or better than many of the courses I have seen or played on the east coast. Now, I would say that it is long and challenging (200 feet of elevation change - 7020 from tips). However, this is NOT a beginner's course. Also, first time golfers on the course will be challenged by the wind and some blind shots. But range books are available in the Pro Shop, and I would highly recommend. It is one of the most scenic and beautiful courses you will play and since it was built through the woods close to the Potomac River there are colors and vistas that can be nicely distracting. Bring your "A" game and enjoy this awesome course.

Played On
Reviews 101
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 250 Contributor
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Beautiful Scenes, Challenging Course

Hate the player, not the game*. That’s how I’d describe my experience at this Virginia golf course just off I-95. Elevation changes, small undulated greens, beautiful scenery, and a challenging course. That’s all I got…

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Fair
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 7
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great course and staff

Great people here, great course, is in awesome shape.

The ride from green to tee's is long which sorta makes it a over 4 hour round...but really worth the experience.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great course great staff

Only thing that keeps this from being 5 star is its a more then 4 hour round …any holes are 1/4-1/2 mile in between green to tee. Don’t get me wrong it’s nice cool ride through shady trees but I just played a 4.5 hour round and wasn’t waiting and no one was waiting on us.

Staff is super nice. Beverage cart is well stocked.

Course is in nice shape. Not as much break as you may think on fairly nice quick greens.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 10
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Wet weather
Used cart

The course was disappointing

We have always found this to be an elite course but not the day we played. The greens were about the worse I've played this year. They weren't cut and were crazy slow (very disappointing). They had received some rain two days earlier but everything was very dry yet we were not allowed to go off the cart path which made for a longer round. They had a small shotgun start in the morning but had no golfers go through for half an hour yet would not let us tee off the front. This has been traditionally one of our favorite courses but we may not go back. VERY SAD!

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Still early season.

Course looks beautiful. Greens were punched/aerated 5-6 weeks ago. Still need to be dress with sand at least one more to even out the holes. Kind of disappointed the greens aren’t cut for at least 4/5 days and bumpy. Probably will play again sometime in June and hopefully the greens should be grown in and rolling true. Tee boxes and fairways are nice. Fringe around some greens will need another month to grow. Good track though.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Previously Played
Cold weather
Used cart

Overrated and unfair design

Beware, this course is extremely challenging, even from the 5,790 tees. The holes look like they were designed by Picasso. There are deep bunkers; steep hills and ravines; heavy woods immediately off fairways; trees and bunkers in the middle of fairways; and small, elevated greens. Do not go near this course unless you are at least a 10 handicapper. It's unplayable, unfair and unenjoyable for the average golfer. I've played it twice and won't go back. Moreover, the conditions were not worth $70 weekday. Lots of bare spots and dirt patches around the greens. Other area public courses ar in much better shape at this point. Finally, the starter, while friendly and helpful, went on an unprovoked rant about how he thinks the Covid epidemic was overblown. Very inappropriate.

Conditions Average
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 73
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Previously Played

Not in good condition

I played the course with a friend. We were both disappointed. The course layout was ackward and the aerated greens were terrible to putt on.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Extremely Disappointing

Played this when it opened, such a shame the condition it's in now. Course is terrible with no marshals to speed up play. 5 hour and 30 minutes plus round. 8 to 10 minutes each hole. Played well, least fun I've had on a couse in a long time.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Favorite Course in this area

I have played this course many times. The staff is always friendly and very helpful. My wife and I went to the Tidewater Grill for lunch prior to our tee time. The food, drinks and service was amazing! Highly recommend this place to eat, even if you don't have a tee time.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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