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Ok, so to get the bad out of the way first. I couldn’t even stomach to finish the round. I left around the 13 hole and at that point I was about 4.5 hours into the round. There was zero accountability for pace of place which is arguably golfs biggest challenge to keep players and attract newcomers. A Saturday afternoon you know you are going to play for 4-4.5 hours. This was at a 6+ hour pace. Unacceptable and it shows the staff had little concern since there was no marshal, the pro? Was sending anybody out to the tee haphazardly with the amount of mixed groups bogging the pace down (singles, doubles back to back to back). No grouping to make foursomes. It will ruin anyone’s round when your waiting 10-15 minutes on every shot and tee box. It’s bad when the nice cart girl is saying this is the normal pace.

That is the only bad.

Great course overall. The layout is very fun, makes you use all irons in the bag. Not so much for shaping shots but for varying forced distances. Greens rolled great, held up very well for mid afternoon. Bunkers were well maintained and played well out of (unfortunately found a fairway bunker and 2 greenside) but were a good to hit out of. Fairways were all in fine shape. Greenside there was no complaints. They just need to get it together with their pace of play or I’ll never be back.

Just moved to northern Virginia from Phoenix so I’m getting the lay of the land for courses around here.
Pros: cool layout, a lot of elevation changes, has the Pete Dye “style” around the course with random undulations. Target holes no matter the tee boxes so it forces you to use your whole bag which I like. The staff was over the top friendly and gave a lot of advice for the course as well as easy ways to get there (it’s around Fredericksburg, VA but very secluded). It rolls around a lake which gives it the course very scenic views.
Cons: tee boxes were in rough shape (not the end of the world) but the par three tee boxes were all more than adequate. Greens were slow and had some diseased area, it did just dump a ton of rain the day before (the fairways were actually pretty dry all things considered). Other than that really nothing to complain about.

All in all a very nice course, very scenic, great staff. Tight tee shots so hit it straight! Will be back for sure.

I’ll keep it simple.

Pros: layout was pretty good. Good test at times off the tee.
Greens were in good shape, fairly consistent and the fairways/ tee boxes likewise.
Pretty cheap ($40) for a Friday afternoon.
What staff I did encounter was very friendly.
The grounds were very clean and nice.
Cons: bunkers were terrible. Lots of standing water in most bunkers I saw or attempted to hit out of (rained THREE days prior).
Pace was subject but was remedied by passing the group that was not letting anyone by. No marshaling but for a non busy afternoon that’s to be expected.

All in all I’ll definitely be back but being new to the area I will explore all of my options.