This Is The Best Golf Course In VA, Say Pro Golfers Who’ve Played It

VIRGINIA — Kinloch Golf Club in Manakin Sabot is the best golf course Virginia has to offer, according to a new ranking developed by golfers themselves.

Golf Digest deploys 1,700 professionally trained low-handicap golfers to continually assess the golf courses. The rankings are based on more than 80,000 evaluations over 10 years looking at criteria such as short options, challenge, design variety, conditioning, aesthetics, and character.

Congressional Country Club: Blue has been an icon of traditional American parkland golf since the 1964 U.S. Open, according to Golf Digest.

Here’s what Golf Digest had to say about the Kinloch Golf Club, which is located in the Greater Richmond area:

“Since the only way to successfully establish bentgrass tees, fairways and greens in hot, humid Richmond was to create expansive corridors to allow plenty of sunlight and air to the turf, Kinloch Golf Club has more double fairways posing options and alternate routes than nearly every other course on the 100 Greatest, except perhaps The Lido and National Golf Links of America.”

In 2016, the course kicked off a long-range plan of adjustments and enhancements, including expansion of the alternate fairways on nine and 11. Enhancements will continue in the future, according to Golf Digest.

There are plenty of other courses in Virginia that prioritize the aesthetics of their fairways and greens and test the golfers who play on them with a variety of challenges.

These are the rest of the top 10 golf courses in Virginia, according to Golf Digest. Overall, 25 were ranked:

2. The Olde Farm, Bristol
3. Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Gainesville
4. The Highland Course At Primland, Meadows of Dan
5. Ballyhack Golf Club, Roanoke
6. The Omni Homestead Resort: Cascades Course, Hot Springs
7. The Country Club of Virginia: James River, Richmond
8. Golden Horseshoe Golf Club: Gold Course, Williamsburg
9. Trump National Golf Club, Washington D.C.: Championship, Potomac Falls
10. The Virginian Golf Club, Bristol

This is the 25th edition of Golf Digest’s Best in State ranking, which has been published continually since 1977.

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