East Potomac Park Miniature Golf Return
to Washington, D.C. page
(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
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 18th 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.
Reviewed by Pat, Mandy and Putt
Reviewed in 2003
Course Pictures (click to enlarge)
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