Penderbrook Golf Club

Love the layout at this tight course, but it isn’t a great experience. There are very pretty holes but also a handful of ugly holes. Fairways are in bad shape; greens were solid but slow.
Clubhouse guy was kinda rude. Weird they don’t take cash to buy a Gatorade. Zero water coolers on the course, zero ball wash stations. Signage is poor, and the tee markers look like they were cut with a butter knife and painted 40 years ago.

This course has SO MUCH potential in a historic Fairfax area, but they don’t put any love into the course.

As for the play, SO MANY blind shots. Thank goodness for 18 birdies app.

A bit pricey for a late afternoon round. A couple of places turf needs to grow in but otherwise improving.

Never written a review before but hopefully this can save some people some time/money. Easily the worst conditions I’ve ever seen, tee boxes fairways, greens, rough all in awful shape.

Saturday mid-morning was $80 on aerated greens and a 5+ hour round. I thought the staff was friendly so I can only surmise it’s run by greedy dishonorable owners.

In short this is someone who just stuck 18 flag sticks in a big yard and called it a golf course.

I have played this course several times. The pace has always been slow but last night was absurd. They let a group of six go before my group of two early evening. We did not finish our round due to it becoming dark. Greens had been aerated which made putting extremely difficult. Bunkers need some love several looked like packed mud with others completely overgrown with grass and weeds.

I really want to like this course because it’s convenient for me to get to but there are others that are in better shape for far less money like Oak Creek in Maryland.

No complaints on this course and I’ve played it multiple times. Pace of play was great, good general course conditions, great greens, nice clubhouse and good price! Food/drink shack at the turn is great for the obligatory hot dog and whatever other refueling needs you may have. Fairways do sometimes have an odd “green-like” strip with different grass than the regular fairway, but it’s actually nicer grass to play off of, so I’m not complaining about it.

I've played Penderbrook 5-6 times in 2022 with friends who have a regular group. Because the course is in the middle of a housing development in Reston/Herndon, it's a short course, with narrow fairways, some tight angles and short par 3s. Lots of forced carries over water. Precision is required on tee shots and approaches. I'm impressed by course conditions - it's obvious management is putting money into it. Bunkers have been restructured, some are now sod wall bunkers with steep lips, which provides an extra challenge. Tee boxes are in good condition and certain fairways are spongy, while others that get less sunlight can be patchy. Golf carts are new. Because my group always gets an early morning tee time, I've almost never had a problem with pace of play, but I note that many bunkers have been removed, perhaps to help pace of play and lower maintenance costs. Penderbrook's convenient location is also a plus. A downside is that there's no range. Overall a challenging course whose management seems to care about conditions.

Started us on hole 8 which was strange. 8, 9, and 10 are a little tougher water holes, so not the best to begin a round on when you come in cold. Otherwise the course was in very nice shape and practically empty on a Tuesday around noon, so didn’t feel rushed or held up at all.

Golf club doesn't care of COVID as share cart with person who doesn't know even.

DO NOT ever come here. Terrible course. Significantly over priced. Conditions are crap. Rangers can’t speed up play at all. Overbooked just an overall terrible experience every time I come here

Secret Jem! Greens were outstanding. Fairways were better than most in this area. Pro was extremely helpful.Fun course. I will be back!

This course is generally well maintained and the pace of play is good. It has a few too many blind shots for the tightness of the course but if you know your yardages you can score. I think the weekday prices are too high for the course but if you can get a great deal off GolfNow then it's worth the look.

Some holes were being repaired so there were some rough areas. Pace of play was very very slow. Some holes would have 2-3 groups backed up and I only saw a marshal on the course once. The ground was very hard in a lot of spots on the course.

Greens were in great shape and the par 3 greens were challenging. For the pace of play and some fairway conditions, the price was on the high side.