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Best golf courses near Alexandria, VA
Below, you’ll find a list of courses near Alexandria, VA. There are 46 courses within a 15-mile radius of Alexandria, 20 of which are public courses and 26 are private courses. There are 29 18-hole courses and 17 nine-hole layouts.
The above has been curated through Golf Digest’s Places to Play course database, where we have collected star ratings and reviews from our 1,900 course-ranking panelists. Join our community by signing up for Golf Digest+ and rate the courses you’ve visited recently.
![Congressional Country Club: Blue](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/2021/10/congressional%20renovated%20course.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.406.305.suffix/1635163090580.jpeg)
Congressional's Blue Course had been an icon of traditional American parkland golf since the 1964 U.S. Open. Prior to that event, Robert Trent Jones combined nine remodeled Devereux Emmet holes with nine new ones of his own to create the modern Blue, and those holes were remodeled and reshaped several times by son Rees Jones for the 1997 and 2011 Opens. All the while, the trees around them matured, creating dense, shadowy corridors of wood. Drainage issues and declining course conditions motivated the membership to considier a major overhaul in 2020, and that's what they received when architect Andrew Green reimagined the course as somethiing that Emmet might have originally designed, denuding the property of its forests and creating broad, rollicking fairways that tumble through meadows of long fescue punctuated by fearsome bunkers and bold, segmented greens. Parkland golf Congressional is no more, and the remodel, which included a new, drop-shot par-3 10th hole, earned the course our Best Transformation award for 2021 and a jump of 18 spots in the 100 Greatest ranking.
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![Columbia Country Club](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/course-photos-for-places-to-play/placeholder-images/Placeholder_2.png.rend.hgtvcom.406.229.suffix/1652210514302.png)
Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase is ranked as one of the best golf courses in Maryland. Discover our experts reviews and tee time information
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![River Bend Club](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/course-photos-for-places-to-play/River-Bend-Club-1-Virginia-11576.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.406.271.suffix/1687886454537.jpeg)
River Bend Club is one of the best courses in Virginia. Check our experts reviews and find tee time information
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![Chevy Chase Club](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/course-photos-for-places-to-play/placeholder-images/Placeholder_1.png.rend.hgtvcom.406.229.suffix/1652210514118.png)
Chevy Chase Club is ranked as one of the best golf courses in Maryland. Discover our experts reviews and tee time information
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![Burning Tree Club](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/2018/06/26/5b3261195d800b540bf21ed1_best-locker-rooms-Burning-Tree-Club.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.406.305.suffix/1573244340478.jpeg)
Burning Tree is one of golf’s most exclusive jaunts. The club remains all-male—the story goes that a foursome of golfers fed up with slow play by a female group at Chevy Chase founded their own men’s-only club, and it’s remained that way. It’s an enclave of politicians past and present—with a former member list that includes presidents such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush. There are no tables in the grill room—just long benches where you sit next to other members and their guests, regardless of political affiliation. The golf course is unique, too, boasting a C.H. Alison routing that includes some fun variety, despite all but one hole doglegging left to right. Alison produced variety in the form of bunker and green complexes, which have been renovated in recent years by Gil Hanse.
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![Laurel Hill Golf Club](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/course-photos-for-places-to-play/laurel-hill-golf-club-clubhouse-23989.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.406.271.suffix/1659989623795.jpeg)
About 20 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., Laurel Hill is a scenic layout that plays over undulating terrain. The course has terrific bunkering and typically gets high marks from our panelists for being in good condition. The Bill Love design hosted the penultimate U.S. Amateur Public Links in 2013.
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![Congressional Country Club: Gold](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/course-photos-for-places-to-play/placeholder-images/Placeholder_4.png.rend.hgtvcom.406.229.suffix/1652210514620.png)
Congressional Country Club's Gold Course in Bethesda is ranked as one of the best golf courses in Maryland. Discover our experts reviews and tee time information
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![TPC Potomac At Avenel Farm](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/course-photos-for-places-to-play/TPC-Potomac-Maryland-5051.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.406.305.suffix/1689276346435.jpeg)
TPC Potomac At Avenel Farm is ranked as one of the best golf courses in Maryland. Discover our experts reviews and tee time information
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![Bethesda Country Club](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/course-photos-for-places-to-play/placeholder-images/Placeholder_1.png.rend.hgtvcom.406.229.suffix/1652210514118.png)
Bethesda Country Club is ranked as one of the best golf courses in Maryland. Discover our experts reviews and tee time information
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![University of Maryland Golf Course](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/course-photos-for-places-to-play/University%20of%20Maryland%20Golf%20Course%20Hole%206%20From%20Behind%20Green.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.406.305.suffix/1649960534917.jpeg)
Situated on the western edge of the University of Maryland campus and just north of Washington, D.C., the university’s golf course is a great option for both students and those looking to get out of the city for a round. The George W. Cobb design starts strong, with several uphill approaches that play to greens with false fronts. Most holes are tree-lined, though the fairways are generous. With $50 rates on weekdays, the University of Maryland Golf Course is a great deal in the D.C. area.
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![Enterprise Golf Course](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/course-photos-for-places-to-play/placeholder-images/Placeholder_4.png.rend.hgtvcom.406.229.suffix/1652210514620.png)
There are plenty of elevation changes at Enterprise Golf Course, less than 30 minutes outside Washington, D.C., presenting a variety of shots for an affordable public course. There are few fairway bunkers, and the fairways are quite wide, but should you miss them, thick trees will complicate your approach. Carts are required if you play on weekend mornings. You can play on weekday afternoons for $30, making Enterprise one of the best values in the D.C. area.
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