DC Golf League?

[mozes21]

Hi all,

I moved to the area less than a year ago and am expanding my local knowledge of the different tracks around the beltway. 

 

I wanted to see if anyone knows of any weekend leagues around town? 

I am a 10.8 handicap right now and am looking for some decently competitive golf as most of friends are shooting 110+.

Thanks for your help. 

[iacas]

@DaveP043 may be able to help.

[DaveP043]

Welcome to TheSandTrap, @mozes21, and to the DC area.  I live in Reston, VA, and play further west at Stoneleigh GC in Round Hill.  I'm afraid I can't help very much with weekend leagues in the area.  The only leagues I know of for sure are associated with private clubs.  In northern Virginia, there are leagues for retired men, for low handicappers playing at scratch (A-Team), and for mid-handicapper (B-Team league).  My advice would be to contact the courses where you play and ask if there's anything for you.  Even if its not an organized league, there may be an informal group that goes out at the same time each weekend that would welcome a new player.

Aside from the league, you might want to consider meeting some of your fellow SandTrap members for a round or two of golf.  Take a look at:

Let me know if you're interested, we still have room for more players.

[jsgolfer]

42 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

Welcome to TheSandTrap, @mozes21, and to the DC area.  I live in Reston, VA, and play further west at Stoneleigh GC in Round Hill.  I'm afraid I can't help very much with weekend leagues in the area.  The only leagues I know of for sure are associated with private clubs.  In northern Virginia, there are leagues for retired men, for low handicappers playing at scratch (A-Team), and for mid-handicapper (B-Team league).  My advice would be to contact the courses where you play and ask if there's anything for you.  Even if its not an organized league, there may be an informal group that goes out at the same time each weekend that would welcome a new player.

Aside from the league, you might want to consider meeting some of your fellow SandTrap members for a round or two of golf.  Take a look at:

Let me know if you're interested, we still have room for more players.

I'm like Dave, I play at a Springfield Golf & Country Club (very close to DC) and other than the inter-club matches Dave mentioned, I also play in the Senior A and Senior Scratch leagues.  I really haven't heard of any DC Golf Leagues unfortunately.  

Now if you want to play in the interclub matches and don't want to join a CC, there are a couple of the upscale public courses in the area that play in some of them.    

Laurel Hill GC in Lorton, VA being one of them and they are always looking for good players according to my buddy that is a member there.  Raspberry Falls is another but that is in Leesburg and is a haul from DC.  Maryland also has similar interclub matches and Bowie Golf & CC (which allows public play) also played in those matches when I was a member at National Golf Club in Fort Washington MD.  If you want to join a club and not pay a fortune, that is a place to go.  Decent layout, conditions aren't the best, but price is very reasonable.  The rate I paid about 4 years ago was under $300/month for a single membership.

You might want to check out Meetup, I know they have some golf groups for the area.  

Also, before I was married, I played at times with the American Singles Golfers Association (ASGA) local group.  Although good golfers were few and far between.    

[davechen]

Hey mozes21.

I live in Bethesda, MD, just outside DC.  I think that most of the public courses in my area have golf leagues.  I mostly play the Montgomery county public courses.  You could give them a call.  I think East Potomac in DC runs one too.  In fact there's a league page on their web page (golfdc.com).

I play in the NIH golf league.  We play 9 hole on Tuesdays and Thursdays after work.  Unfortunately our season just started and the league is full, I think.

You could also check out the DC Golf Tour:

http://www.dcgolftour.com

A friend of mine runs it.  I played one of their events.  A lot of very good golfers, so I was kind of out of my league.  I ended up dead freaking last, so I'm kind of reluctant to play another one.