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Brambleton was a fun course to play. Not too difficult other than a surprise snow storm for a half hour. Not my favorite muni in the area - would recommend Twin Lakes (better greens and more of a challenge), but an enjoyable course for a relaxing 18 holes of golf!

Overall, a challenging but player friendly course. The front nine is in immaculate condition, greens were fast for the winter and fairways, although yellowed were not burnt out or overly soggy. The greens on the back nine were hit or miss with two in just terrible conditions (not a smoothie surface to be seen). The back nine has a few more elevation challenges than the front nine. Overall, a great course, good price, and ‘good’ condition for winter/off-season play.

My dad and I got paired with another father/son duo. The pace of play was excellent, there was a group consistently pushing us from behind but they never caught up with us - by the last three holes it was rather annoying and we would have allowed them to play through. The greens were superb, fast, and in great condition. The fairways similarly were gorgeous, some unreplaced divots, but nothing unexpected for this tine of year. The course otherwise was in excellent condition, the best in the area and better than any course in DC. The tee boxes were similarly in fantastic condition. No complaints about the course.

We were fortunate to play with a duo who played the course before, otherwise navigating the course would have been difficult - in terms of understanding where to hit/lay up etc. course is well laid out over a considerable area. Our cart struggled from the start but made it to the end.

The overall condition of the course was good, but there were multiple holes with tons of mud (lots of rain the previous two weeks). For example, I hit the middle right of the fairway and my ball was in about four inches of mud. They allowed a single who kept pushing up against our foursome but he wouldn’t play through us. I always try to repair my pitch mark plus an additional three, but there were too many pitch marks to count on most greens. It would help if we could get all our new golf friends to maintain some basic golf etiquette on their pitch marks.