Williamsburg Lodge, Autograph Collection

Excellent round of golf. Manicured fairways that are wide and forgiving. Greens are immaculate. Great outing with friends and family.

This is the second time I’ve played this course. Unlike many of the courses in the area they don’t overbook and you won’t spend forever on the tee waiting to play. The greens are well maintained and the staff is very friendly, the price is good for the conditions of the course and on par with Kiskiak or Kiln Creek.

Great layout, picturesque and playable...BUT, the course conditions were EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING...The tee boxes were uneven and beaten up ( what you might find on a busy municipal golf course)... the fairways were patchy and thin... the greens, although they rolled nicely,
had dozens of ball marks on each and every one of them.. Not what one would expect when paying $200 for a golf course that is ranked in the Top 50 each and every year...

It is appropriate that Golden Horseshoe’s Green course sits at a mile-and-a-half remove from its older sibling. Juxtaposing its high-1990s styling with the traditional architecture of Colonial Williamsburg might have created too strange a contrast.

Few golf courses are purer expressions of Rees Jones’ mid-career vision. More than 100 bunkers – both flat-bottom circles and meandering amoebas – line fairways and greens that wind through dense forest and wetlands. They mingle with ever-present containment mounding that most plastic surgeons would consider ambitious. The putting surfaces themselves feature mostly distinct decks and subtle overall tilts. While the par 4s are rather monotonous, the course does draw strength from its par 5s, particularly the 15th and 18th, which aims straight at the clubhouse for a stately finish well in line with the cacophony that precedes. Challenging and well-kept, with particularly smooth putting surfaces, the Green is best viewed as a modern museum-piece golf course, and best by erring on the shorter side when choosing your tee box.

Located across the street from historic Colonial Williamsburg, a living monument to America’s 17th and 18th century roots, the Gold course is also a trip back in time, albeit to an era a couple of centuries closer to the present. The routing of the course and the arrangement of the excellent clubhouse and smallish driving range feels like it’s more from the 1920s than the 1950s.

The design of the course itself, though, places it very much in a transitional era between the Golden Age and the midcentury mien which architect Robert Trent Jones helped define. Bunkering flanks flowing the fairways and tiered greens, rather than interrupting lines of play, and water comes into play a considerable amount, especially on the one-shotters, which are tough as nails and capped off by the 16th, America’s most famous pre-Sawgrass island-green par 3. Even so, when it hosted the 2007 NCAA Championship, the course yielded up some very low scores, including a 60. If you play the right tees, it shouldn’t beat you up too badly at all.

Played on a Monday afternoon when course was relatively empty, played in under 4 hours walking. Staff very friendly and accommodating. Course was in fine shape. Great layout. While they allow walking, this is a serious hike due to the various elevation changes on nearly every hole, so be ready for a workout if you choose to walk. Glad we played from the whites at 6200 yards and change because even for single digit handicappers that was enough of a challenge. Course layout is straightforward as front nine goes out 5 and comes back 4, and same with back 9. Each of the par 3s could be the signature hole as they are scenic and unique. I felt the price and value was fair. If you are visiting Williamsburg area with your clubs, highly recommended to play the Gold!

While there are lots of obstacles in the form of traps and mounds, there is a good landing area on most holes for any drive that may fall short of the target.

For significantly less price, we felt the Green Course was pretty close in layout and conditions as the Gold Course so the value is great. No complaints!

Cart path only on very hilly course. Over six hours to play waited every shot. Very wet should not have been open. We had over 13000 steps by our watches. Money should have been refunded. I play to a 6 hdcp at Mystic in Ancaster Ontario.

Cart path only. Over 6 hour round. Fairways way to wet. Over twelve thousand steps on hilly course. Should have been refunded money. I am a 6 hdcp and would not play this again.

Not a great course for cart path only. Very hilly but got my excercise.

Tried to book a tee time here and found out this course is now closed due to development of the land. The two 18 hole Golden Horseshoe courses are still alive and well.

A must play!! Excellent trek!! Enjoyable course to play!!

Have played it twice now, and it’s one of my favorite courses. Conditions were great both times. A few holes are tricky, but overall the course is fair and somewhat forgiving. Moguls are on both sides of many fairways, and unless you hit it on the non fairway side of the moguls, the ball will generally funnel back toward the fairway. Greens are pretty uniform with speed.