Reston National Golf Course

I had the 1st tee time (7:30) so pace of play was excellent and I was paired with a good guy so from that perspective everything was great.

The course just isn’t in good shape - Fairways, greens, rough, tees are all just terrible.

If I didn’t have to be back at my house by 11:00 I would have driven further away.

Its a shame because RN is literally 5 minutes from my home.

The tee boxes are pretty torn up, they need to be redone. The cart path is also in terrible shape, good luck keeping a drink... The bunkers were rocky and hard (there might have been 3 half decent ones on the whole course). The greens were super slow, but looked to have been aerated recently so that should improve. The fairways were in decent shape. I wish more people replaced their divots though.

Course is always exquisite but like every time I play pace of play is ruined because there’s no Marshall enforcing pace of play. Round was completely slowed to a halt by a threesome walking taking four practice swings each hitting the ball 30 yards a stroke and simply not playing ready golf or being aware that they were significantly slowing play down and allowing others to play through. Also giving the two some behind us separate carts doesn’t help who started hitting into us doesn’t help. We ended up stopping at the turn and just chalking the rest of the round. The course, its staff, the facilities are all top notch which makes it so infuriating for it to be ruined by there being no Marshall on a Saturday round. It’s not the first time this has happened there, I was hoping this time would be different but just hire a Marshall.

My wife and I play this course because it's convenient to where we live and the greens fees are moderate. We got a beautiful (unseasonably warm) day and enjoyed walking the course for the first time. Tee boxes are filled with sand as the grass has not quite come in yet. Fairways were in decent shape and the greens were a little rough (just aerated). All fairly understandable since we're still pretty early in the season. I'm hopeful that the conditions will improve once the grass fills in this spring.

Decent round but slow pace of play.
There were clear spots of ground under repair that were not marked. Not enough to severely hinder my round, but enough to be noticeable on most holes (I.e. uneven fairways, cut lines of cups, fairway to first cut, low points of course being spotty)
Overall pleasant round for a reasonable price.

2nd time I've played Reston this year. The first time the course was in pretty good shape. This time it was completely different, but I'll give it a few excuses. 1) the greens were really bad BUT they had just been aerated earlier in the week which didn't help. 2) the entire course was COVERED in leaves so I lost a TON of balls, even when I hit the fairway or just rolled off the green BUT I actually went off before the course was officially opened so I may have been any of the grounds keepers' efforts to blow the fairways and green areas.

Couse was aerated last week, so the greens were not true. It has to be done, though, so I won't hold it against them. Oddly, after having little rain for the last 2 months, there were multiple areas on the course where it was a quagmire. Perhaps sprinkler maintenance? I love Reston National, and will be back.

I have played Reston many times and I knew the course conditions would be poor and was ok with that for half price green fee. We started on time. By hole 2 there were 4 groups on the hole. It never got better. On hole 4 the Marshall said he had sped up the group causing the delay. It just never improved. On the 10th hole there were 5 groups on the hole. I played 11 holes in 3 hours and 51 minutes. That is 21 minutes per hole. At that point I decided it wasn’t worth it. It would have been more than 6 hours for a round of golf and with Daylight Saving Time it would have been too dark to finish. Really not worth it considering pace of play but at least cheap enough I didn’t mind leaving.

There was. a teenager working as a starter and he had no clue what he was doing. He let many 3somes go while singles were waiting. Finally, there were too many so we were asked to play as a 5some! Go figure

Reston has never been that great of a course, but last weekend was by far the worst condition I’ve ever played. The greens were punched (which I knew about) but towards the back nine, it seemed that the greens keeper(s) didn’t know what they were doing. Also, I know it’s the fall season and leaves will be all over the course. But they only blew the leaves off the fairway and nothing towards the rough. It was very frustrating hitting the ball off the mark by a margin and end up losing it because of the leaves. Overall, paying $45 for the round seemed too high.

The greens were recently aerated (sp?) so they were not in great shape. It would be nice if the staff could blow the leaves off the greens as they were pretty much a mess. Otherwise, the tee boxes and fairways were surprisingly good for this time of year (Nov 1). Come prepared with bright colored balls as anything that isn't down the middle of the fairway is difficult to find among all the leaves that have fallen.

Reston National continues to struggle. Until a solid owner takes over and runs this course properly it will continue to be a “Goat Ranch.”
• No rain in the region for 27 days and parts of the course were flooded
• Tee boxes were grassless
• Was told after I paid and heading to the range (that I also had to pay for) that the font nine was being aerated and had to play the back twice.

we used to play this a lot. Played it mid-Oct. Course was in pretty bad shape. We knew it wouldn't be great, but tons of areas needed work. It's been neglected for some time now. Not sure how they can charge as much as they do.

I booked this course for the rate advertised by TeeOff.com. However, I was charged additional $20+ as cart fee. If I had known this beforehand, I wouldn’t have played this course. Disappointed bigly.