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I am one that tries to keep the reviews positive but yet honest and real. This course used to be my home course. I always loved the layout and the condition of the course but did get frustrated at times when you could totally ride 90 degrees when they made it CPO. I let it ride because of the consistency the course played condition-wise and simply chose to pick another place when it rained. My last time playing there was in November of 2024, until today, which is 6-25-2026.
The reason for that being the last time I played there wasn't because of me moving to a different side of town, it was due to the price increase to play this course that was just a few bucks shy of playing much nicer, demanding courses or, way too high over other courses that offered more but you paid less, such as many in Suffolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, etc. At the end of the day, I stopped playing here due to the price, and how tight the ship was run with play during weather conditions to which I understood if you wanted to continue with the course conditions being steller.
My buddies wanted to get out last minute, and with limited availability on other courses, I decided to give a call here, to which they had openings at the time I needed. I can see why now. We started off on the back nine due to "maintenance on the front," to which we were pretty wide open most of the day. Seeing the first green on hole 10, I was shocked at the condition. We both thought it was a fluke and felt it would get better, but it didn't. Every green was lost, and despite you still being able to roll the ball okay, it was the biggest eye sore and mind trip on how they would roll all day long.
Not only the greens, but it translated into the fairways and tee boxes. Then the sand traps? Although some were decent to get out, others were impossible. We had to pull back and chip over the greens. I've never seen this course in this condition, and yet the charge to play was still a pill to bite. I don't know what happened since my last time in 2024, but unfortunately for me, it will remain off the radar unless it is addressed in many ways. Again, I am not one for negative reviews, but that was a round of pure eye distraction and struggle to stay in the 80's mentally.
The saving grace to me was the clubhouse special and the server. I went in to have a peek at what they had (as I review my scorecard details before hitting the road) and remembered some sort of special for having a scorecard. Come to find out, they still did, and that discount was: if you still had your scorecard on you, a draft beer or beverage was the cost of your score. So, if you shot an 85, your beer would be 85 cents with the purchase of something such as a hotdog! That was amazing! A Glizzy and draft IPA for under 4 dollars was absolutely awesome. That helped to bring this up to a 3 vs something lower.
I always stated clubhouses here in VB need to make the Clubhouse a place where you want to hang, enjoy, and have great things going on to help ease the pain of the rounds. So, thank you Clubhouse for that special and saving this review.