Reston National Golf Course

Reston National is a good course overall and an enjoyable place to play. The staff is consistently friendly and welcoming, which makes for a positive experience from check-in through the round. The biggest area that could use improvement is the greens. With a little more attention and maintenance, the course could be significantly better. The rest of the course is generally in good shape, but the greens are such an important part of the experience that they deserve more focus. Overall, a solid course with a great staff. Improve the greens and this would be a much stronger golf experience.

Previous reviews of this course had me a bit worried, but after my husband and I visited we were pleasantly surprised at the shape of the course! The fairways were in good condition, along with the greens, and the carts are some of the nicest we’ve seen at a public course. This definitely would have been a five star review if not for the tee boxes, which a few of them need some work. Overall, we had a great experience!

Played here for the Readers for Leaders charity event and had a great time. The course was in decent shape for the end of September. It was odd that they didn’t fill the carts with divot fillers. $80 is a reasonable price to ride this course for a weekend morning but I wouldn’t pay more. If you’re going to pay more, I’d rather head to Westfields or pay $30 to walk 9 holes at Oakmont.

I'm not sure who is responsible for cutting the greens at the golf course, but I wanted to pass along a sincere compliment. Over the past three months, the greens have looked absolutely fantastic. The mowing lines are incredibly neat and consistent, giving the course a well-maintained and professional appearance. The difference between how the course looked previously and how it looks now is very noticeable. The attention to detail has made a significant improvement and truly makes the course look and feel like a premier golf course. It is clear that a great deal of pride and effort is being put into maintaining the greens. Please pass along my appreciation to the gentleman with the gray in his beard who is often cutting the greens when I am there. If he is responsible for this outstanding work, he deserves recognition for the remarkable job he has been doing. Please encourage him to continue maintaining this standard. The course looks perfect! Thank you for sharing my appreciation.

Okay, real review time from someone who has played this golf course off and on for decades. Recent reviews giving 5 star ratings and talking about how improvements have made this a premier golf course once again (and it indeed used to be) increased my interest. Within a few holes, I determined the reviewers played a course I was not playing. Our round was Labor Day weekend, so let the course shine. It didn't. Crabgrass was everywhere. As an example, I was in the fairway on #2 and the crabgrass around my ball (again, in the fairway) was too high for me to hit the 5-wood I wanted to hit. Makes me wonder when that fairway and others were last mowed. Many of the bunkers had sand (some had a little crabgrass), but many had also not been raked in some time. Bunkers that once made the course challenging are now grass bunkers (boo). "Rough" was filled with tall crabgrass in many places. Tee boxes were fair to sandy, greens were okay but bumpy and greens that have been an issue still have spots that are. Missing ball washers. Disappointing considering I paid $80 for this experience. From news stories I've read, ownership/management seems to be tying TRUE course improvements (with some redesign) to a redevelopment plan and highlighting that the irrigation system is out of date. Yes, irrigation is and has been an issue for some time now. In the meantime, regular maintenance to fertilize and kill crab grass, restore and maintain bunkers including restoring bunkers that have been removed, MOW (what a concept), and the course would be very respectable again... and if ownership/management wants to complain about irrigation, put more ball washers on the course for your customers! But, it feels like ownership is waiting on the outcome of the redevelopment hearing before making a meaningful commitment. Is it better than last year? Based on pictures I've seen on the Google reviews, anything would be better than last year. But again, and it saddens me to say, money is still better spent elsewhere.