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)
Map
Price: $7.50
Par: 53 Other
Activities: Golf Course
Difficulty: 7
Creativity: 9
Atmosphere: 5
Made
the trip down to DC on August 20, 2011 and played East Potomac Park Mini golf.
The course landscaping is a tad overgrown and unkempt. I think it
was $7.50 for an adult.
The course design is honestly awesome. Every hole is encased in a cement
frame so any rollbacks off the tea won't go out of bounds. The
design of the course was awesome with several interesting hole designs (not all
but most). Several multi-tier holes, ramps, etc..
I would rank this as one of the better courses out there IF the
conditions were better. As with the other reviews I have read the course
runs INSANELY fast and uneven. I don't mind speedy courses but when
there are hidden breaks under the carpet it ruins what could have been an
awesome course. This is not a course you can slow putt a short shot as
the course seriously can turn a tapped putt into 8' passed the hole. So
you have to just putt hard and RIGHT at the hole or else...
Really sad that what could have been one of the better designed courses turned
out to be a frustrating experience that I would avoid in the future unless they
not only replaced the greens but smooothed the cement
underneath it.
Reviewed by Jim F.
Reviewed in 2011