Williamsburg Lodge, Autograph Collection

I played on an "Eclipse Special." 80 dollars after noon on eclipse day, with a pair of eclipse sunglasses thrown in. Nice course, but not really worth full price. I should have known: they had just punched the greens. Hey....at least I didn't pay full price for dressed greens. Just would have liked to have known.

On the bright side, the staff is great, the venue is gorgeous, and the course is classic....just solid. Not gimmicky, not too hard, but not easy either. Just right! Aside from the greens, the course was in fine early spring shape.

Great layout and conditions. Staff was as friendly as always.

Unfortunately the course was a swamp when we played. My friend and I were in on business and didn't know it had rained as much as it had. Not the courses fault but it was just water logged. I would like to go back and play it when the conditions are more favorable. Overall the course was nicely manicured. Bring extra balls because if you go out of bounds your ball is gone.

Booked as a single, paired with a local. Finished in under 4 hrs. Ample landing areas, demanding approach shots. Early February, dormant fairway and rough, greens in great shape and rolled true. Don't be fooled by the practice green...at least this time of year, on course greens nowhere near as severe. Downhill par 3s take one less club. Uphill par 4s and 5s, take at least 1, if not 2 club ups. Looking forward to a return trip to see how course plays during warmer months.

Nicely appointed track! Staff was great and easy to get around! I might become a member!

We had a lot of rain this week, but WOW.. every bunker had at least 18 inches of standing water in it. No drainage at all. For the money it wasn't terrible, but I was surprised at the amount of water.

A must play!! Excellent trek!! Enjoyable course to play!!

Easily accessed. Nice, almost private course. People were friendly. Nice views especially on the hillsides and the water during the Fall. Reasonably good condition. Greens are challenging.

Have played it twice now, and it’s one of my favorite courses. Conditions were great both times. A few holes are tricky, but overall the course is fair and somewhat forgiving. Moguls are on both sides of many fairways, and unless you hit it on the non fairway side of the moguls, the ball will generally funnel back toward the fairway. Greens are pretty uniform with speed.

While the Gold has the Par 3’s the Green has the Par 5’s including 18 which is a great finishing hole. The conditions are great and the greens are firm and fast.

Williamsburg is one of the best places in Virginia to golf, with a ton of great options to choose from. But the Gold course reigns supreme. Requires all facets of your game and has memorable holes, especially the Par 3’s.

First time playing this course and it was a wonderful round of golf. Great staff from beginning to end. Pace of play was on point with a 4 hour 10 minute round. Greens and course were in really good shape. Will definitely be traveling back to Williamsburg to play this course again.

It is appropriate that Golden Horseshoe’s Green course sits at a mile-and-a-half remove from its older sibling. Juxtaposing its high-1990s styling with the traditional architecture of Colonial Williamsburg might have created too strange a contrast.

Few golf courses are purer expressions of Rees Jones’ mid-career vision. More than 100 bunkers – both flat-bottom circles and meandering amoebas – line fairways and greens that wind through dense forest and wetlands. They mingle with ever-present containment mounding that most plastic surgeons would consider ambitious. The putting surfaces themselves feature mostly distinct decks and subtle overall tilts. While the par 4s are rather monotonous, the course does draw strength from its par 5s, particularly the 15th and 18th, which aims straight at the clubhouse for a stately finish well in line with the cacophony that precedes. Challenging and well-kept, with particularly smooth putting surfaces, the Green is best viewed as a modern museum-piece golf course, and best by erring on the shorter side when choosing your tee box.

Located across the street from historic Colonial Williamsburg, a living monument to America’s 17th and 18th century roots, the Gold course is also a trip back in time, albeit to an era a couple of centuries closer to the present. The routing of the course and the arrangement of the excellent clubhouse and smallish driving range feels like it’s more from the 1920s than the 1950s.

The design of the course itself, though, places it very much in a transitional era between the Golden Age and the midcentury mien which architect Robert Trent Jones helped define. Bunkering flanks flowing the fairways and tiered greens, rather than interrupting lines of play, and water comes into play a considerable amount, especially on the one-shotters, which are tough as nails and capped off by the 16th, America’s most famous pre-Sawgrass island-green par 3. Even so, when it hosted the 2007 NCAA Championship, the course yielded up some very low scores, including a 60. If you play the right tees, it shouldn’t beat you up too badly at all.

Course design & condition are exceptional. Bunkers don’t drain well, leading to inconsistency from one hole to the next. Also, we played in 94 degrees and there were no water coolers or beverage carts on the course, making it impossible to stay hydrated. Need to put water coolers every second or third hole. With attention to these issues, the course could be exceptional with very little extra effort & cost.