National Golf Club

Worst greens and fairways I’ve seen in a long time. Crabgrass fairways and blotchy shag carpet greens. So disappointing.

The course is not worth the money at the moment. Its a good layout and you can tell it can be a good course but the greens are in really bad shape not. And fairways are okish.

The course has a lot of potential. Great layout and pretty holes. The greens are in terrible shape. Some of the tee boxes were horrendous. The practice putting green is the worst I have ever seen, you can't even call it a green. The driving range mats are terrible and old and leave residue all over your clubs. Was impossible to find a tee to hit off for a driver as they are all missing. Overall the course was fun to play but it needs some investment.

It appeared the tee boxes and fairways had not been cut in days.

Hard to distinguish rough from fairway, and had to tee ball up higher for it to sit above the grass.

Greens appeared significantly underwatered.

The tee boxes were overgrown, the fairway punished you for being in it. The greens were unplayable.

Many fairways were just a little shaggy. The greens were in decent shape but a bit slow due to not being cut very short. The rough wasn't very tall but with all the storms we've had, they were lush and 'grabby'. The Heat Index was 95-96 so we barely saw anyone else on the course for the entire round, when we left at 4pm they said they only had 6 carts out on the course (on a Friday afternoon).

Havent golfed here in a couple years, but enjoyed coming back. Great pace for a weekend round (3.5 hours)

Overall rating -1.5

My review title says it all.

It is a great layout with elevations and design.

I really liked it.

Fairways - were in worst condition.

There is weed all over the way and it was no

more than a low cut rough with all kinds of

plants or whatever you can call.

Greens - again the Slowest on the Planet! The grass seemed never cut or not maintained. Honestly my home carpet would roll much faster. It was so bad. There was no roll whatsoever. If you hit a high approaching shot it will not

roll at all. Some long putts you have hammer and even then you end up well short.

Pace of play - was probably good to okay, however not many were playing. It was literally empty from Noon Tee times onwards. So can’t say much about the pace.

That’s pretty much it.

If you like these conditions you can go and have fun.

PS: I was a first timer on this course.

For $70 the conditions were pretty rough, nearly east Potomac level. We played on a Sunday afternoon at the pace of play was great, we finished in under 4 hours. Also the club made me get a refund credit from golf now, then made me pay them the course fee. Only problem is that the credit only goes to my account and not my credit card so I essentially paid twice. Wouldn’t return.

For a “country/golf club” this place was rough. The practice area is in really tough shape. Driving range was fine. Now when it comes to the course… tee boxes were abysmal. Basically like hitting out of the rough it was so long. Fairways were okay nothing special but not terrible. I will say the one redeeming quality about the course were the greens. They were kept well and rolled just fine. The course design was not my favorite to say the least. Some really silly holes that ask you to shape the ball on just about every tee shot or be forced to hitting an iron off the tee and have a long long ways in. If all you care about are greens this place is just fine. But I’d have to think you can find much better in the DC area.

The course conditions are not worth the price tag. The course layout is fun, but there are not many amenities