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East Potomac Park

Ohio Drive

Washington, D.C.

(202) 488-8087

Price: $4.50 on weekends/ $4.00 during the week

Par: 53 Other Activities: Golf Course

Difficulty: 7

Creativity: 4

Atmosphere: 4

When we first stumbled across this course we were very excited to play it, but ended up being very disappointed. Per its website, the course (and the park it’s in) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also a fifteen minute walk from the Jefferson Memorial. We were expecting an Americana course at its best. Sadly, the closest thing we got was American flags on the pins (which was different and fun, but wasn’t enough to save the course). What we got was a challenging concrete course with a few unique holes, but also one that needed some serious landscaping and personality to it.

The course was definitely one of the longest we’ve played and with fast worn carpets, over putting was a constant. Overall, the pars are set high to reflect the difficulty, but on many holes it seemed like the par was wrong. It was almost as if they had changed the numbers of the holes at some point, but forgot to change the pars along with them. The 18^th hole has a ridiculous angle to it, causing you to bounce it up the slope more than putt it. The landscaping needed the most work as the flower boxes had nothing but dead weeds and neither water areas had anything but leftover rainwater. A simple weekend worth of repairs and maintenance would make this a much more tolerable course. A couple final good points about it are that it is easy to get too and it is open much earlier and later in the season than many miniature golf courses.

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