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Value
1.9
Layout
2.4
Friendliness
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Pace
1.6
Amenities
2.4
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About

Holes 18
Type Public
Par 72
Length 7299 yards
Slope 135
Rating 75.0

Course Details

Year Built 2003
Fairways Bluegrass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Year round

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes
GPS No
Pull-carts Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Fivesomes Allowed No
Single Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes

Food & Beverage

Grill

Available Facilities

Clubhouse

Accolades

  • Golf Advisor: Top Courses in Virginia (2019 #10)

Reviews

2.3
66 Reviews (66)

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Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Was the most fun and unique course we've ever played and we've played golf in 42 states!

We absolutely adored this course. The only downside was they had punched the greens 2 weeks prior.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Twice a year
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Interesting layout.

Many blind greens. Interesting. Fun. Nicely laid out. Didn't spend much time looking for lost balls. 3 memorable holes. No complaints; and I often have them.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Great Course with a wide variety of holes

Course was in great shape. The staff was super nice and very flexible as one of our players arrived late. Service in the grill was excellent with good food. Really enjoyed the wide variety of hole designs and length. Par 3's ranged from island green to a long down hill beauty to a heart shaped green. Bunkers were well groomed (except for the occasional deer track). Par 5's ranged from solid three shot approaches to a risk/reward reachable birdie chance. Really great value for the money!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 10
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Nice round

Rock Harbor - Rock Course - is a well maintained facility, playable and challenging at the same time. Green are large and generally in good shape. There are some funky holes and characteristics - like the cinder "waste areas" on holes 12 and14 and some dramatic elevation changes, particularly on the back nine. One thing to consider is that the yardage markers are scarce and sometime non-existent on more than a few holes. Bring your GPS device and you will have a great time.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course is in great shape! Very lovely in appearance.

Really enjoyed playing this course again after 6 years. They have accomplished a lot during these 6 years; many improvements and additional holes. A very pleasant experience overall.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Rock Harbor is a Great Course/Great Condition

This is my second time playing the course and both times were great. Course personnel, as well as the golfers, were wonderful and held pleasant conversation with them. Can't wait to play there again. :-)

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 109
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 250 Contributor
Previously Played

Great layout but needs more or better directions around course.

Condition of entire (Rock) course is super. Needs better direction markers, more distance markers and more ball washers. However if you want great greens, fairways and tee boxes this is the course to play.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

great layout, very challenging

This is a very interesting course to play, lot of blind landing areas. Large undulating greens. Two great par 3's #7 with its island green and #17 a 200 yard down hill hole to a heart shaped green. Never quit sure which club to use on this hole. I will definitely play this course again when I am back in the area.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Very nice and interestiing course.

Nice course, only complaint little hard to find way around course could be marked better.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 25+
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

great course

beautiful course! great deal for only 35 dollars for a tee time. we loved it

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Pleasant Surprise

Great day of golf. Course in great shape. Beautiful mountain views. Holes are challenging but fair. We will return.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

great course

Very challenging. Very hard to play for the first time

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

High entertainment value, very unique and unusual.

Rock Harbor is one of the most interesting and unusual courses I have ever played. I would suggest the Rock course for now since the Boulder course is still under construction and only has about 11 holes open at this writing.

Quite hilly and some of approach shots are to an uphill green which I don't typically like, but there are only a few of these and it is balanced with downhill shots as well.

With its extravagant rock formations and mixture of uphill, downhill, twists and turns, it's one of the most entertaining courses I have ever played. Also take time to look around. Beautiful views of surrounding countryside. As a 3 hcap, the blue tees provided for a good challenge, although some tees required about a 230 yd carry to clear water. If you can't carry it 240, I'd go with the white tees. Forget the black tees, they're ridiculously long.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 20-24
Skill Advanced
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Greens in great shape

Course was not crowded. Well taken care of. Need to drive the ball on fairways or good luck scrambling.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Holes are challenging but fair.

Enjoyable day. Pace of Olay great. Course in great condition.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
cho
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course was clean and

Each hole is easy to confuse chatgi difficult to find out how is not easy to carry around

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Layout is bizarre. Confusing signs on course.

The tees, fairways and greens were in EXCELLENT condition.

The layout was difficult to understand. Trees blocking shots to the green from the fairways. Split fairways and greens with multiple flags. Not sure what why.

Two courses, ROCK and BOULDER. Permanent signs read, "Rock Harbor 2". The "ROCK Hole 2" type signs are temporary and finding the next hole was difficult at times.

The course apparently lost it's ABC license for the course, so no beer when you play.

A good public course, but many better courses in the area that I would prefer to play for equal or less money. Worth trying once, but not worth regular play.

Conditions Excellent
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Course is very scenic

It's a very scenic course but that being said the majority of your shots to the green are blind. If there is a fault with this course I would say this is it. Other than that zero complaints. Great play for the money!!

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 19
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

This is a wide open course for the most part with greens being quick and true.

This is a great course with fast greens and challenging holes. Pace of play was average and risk reward was always available if you could shape your shots. Definitely want to play this course again before summer is over.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 22
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Excellant shappe, great views, but slow play.

Overall I really liked this whole setup and am glad the people I played with had played this course before. With 2 courses mixed together it was hard to find the next tee many times. The front 9 is a great golf challenge but the back almost makes you feel there should be a windmill on the green to put through or a long tunnel to hit through. Maybe it was that we caught the group ahead of us on hole 8 and had to wait on every shot the rest of the way. The group ahead was a 4 some and we were only a 3 some but on most holes the 2 some behind us was standing on the tee with us while we waited to play. Several holes the third group was approaching the tee as we pulled away. A ranger would have been a benefit to keep things moving.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
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