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Longest Hole/Waterfall at Meadows Farms Golf Course
Played On 10/06/2017A warm up hole? A par 6 hole? Very different layout for each course.
The course is broken into 3 separate 9 hole courses. There’s a warm up hole.... ???? good idea I guess. My friend and I played the Island and Longest Hole Courses. I’ll begin my review with the course conditions.
The overall course conditions were good. Some fairways were a little dry and some were perfect. The rough is really non existent. Grass is not really high and most times I landed in the rough I had a good lie to still go after the hole. There are some holes with different features, hole 8 and 11 has around 40 small lounds in the rough. Most of the tee boxes are really small (like really small). The boxes felt like compacted dirt and you couldn’t take a divot. Some of the tee boxes were not in good shape. The sand traps were huge, but not really a lot of dirt on them. Maybe 1-2 inches of dirt (not necessarily sand). However, it wasn’t hard to hit out of them. Greens were in great shape. Soft and very fast. Some were aireted recently.
The island course is very short (3000+ from the back tees). It has a couple island holes (2 and 6?). Most of the holes are pretty straight, few with any doglegs. You can see the flag from most of the holes. A good amount of the holes have water in play in the hole. Islands are just like islands (short par 3 green surrounded by water everywhere). The course gets longer towards the end and more change in elevation. The beginning greens hardly have any break. So it’s either easy or not interesting (except holes 8 and 9).
The longest hole course is 3900+ yards. Everything that was said about the island course is totally opposite on the longest hole. Lots of doglegs, changes in elevation, tees placed on small flat spots and lots of slope surrounding it. They are owner of the longest hole (841 yd par 6). Can get on he green in 3 with really good shots. It’s just so long!!!! Few PGA regulation Par 4 (465 ish). I really enjoyed this 9 hole course. The 18th hole has a nice wide open view looking down towards the club house.
I didn’t have much interaction with the staff. So I can’t rraljy review that.
Overall, good course for the money. Look for some hot deals on golf now. I definitely recommend to play this course. It’s a little far inland but worth the drive.
Shadow Hills Golf Club
Played On 07/03/2017Great course for the money
Great course for the money.
White tees are long enough to challenge intermediate players. Large sand areas which require you to clear your tee shot past. But not too difficult. Placement is key on a few holes. Fairways are lush and tightly mowed. Lots of undulations (uphill, downhill, sloping shots) so you will rarely have a shot with perfect placement. Some tight greens near water with immediate danger if you miss the green. Holes were placed behind bunkers or near throughout the course. Nice challenge :)
They were reconstructing the 10-18 bunkers so I had to play 1-9 twice. Kind of a bummer. But that will be fixed in August.
No water coolers at any of the holes or a cart lady; so bring some water and Gatorade. They do provide cold wet towels to help you cool down and a cooler for your drinks.
Had a wonderful time and would definitely play again.
Warm up hole and par 6 is totally Farmer Bill Meadows. I graduated from Loudoun County High School in 1978, and his son went to rival school Broad Run. Each graduating class has senior superlatives -- most likely to succeed, best student, etc. Bill Meadows created an award for the Broad Run student senior who had the most fun, so when he created a golf course with a par 6 and warm up hole, it was totally Farmer Bill. (And, if you read this Bill, thanks for sponsoring the Fish Heads softball team for so many years in Reston!)