Kinloch Golf Club Course Review

The Kinloch Golf Club is a comfy and relaxed private retreat near Virginias state capital (Manakin Sabot to be more precise) and it makes for one of the best golf courses built in the past 2 decades, according to a number of prestigious golf magazines. The golf course itself was built in 2001 and wears the signature of architect Lester George, featuring 7203 yards of golf from its longest tees for a 72 par. The course has a rating of 74,8 and a slope rating of 139 while strategic design is its most prominent feature. What to expect playing here you asked, metrics aside? Well, truth be told, the Kinloch is one of the lesser known golf courses despite the fact that it managed to find its way onto numerous top one hundred lists (more about that in a second) and somehow stayed under the radar sort to speak.

Thats because its relatively new and also it wasnt designed by a big-name architect. However, the Kinloch sits on a beautiful piece of real estate in Virginia and due to its remote setting, its the perfect place for, as Winston Churchill put it, ruin a good walk by enjoying a round of golf. The Kinloch offers multiple tee-shot options, an absolutely impeccable conditioning and a lot of eye-candy all through the course that few others can match, and I am being optimistic about the latter. The design and the routing are absolutely outstanding, to say the least, even the artificially (as in man made) built features are somehow infused into the landscape in such a way that it makes them look very natural, like they belong there in the first place. The staff is highly trained and friendly and theres also a comprehensive/high quality caddie program for delivering the perfect golf experience possible. As per its accolades, the Kinloch golf course was ranked 56th on Golf Digests current year top one hundred greatest courses in the USA and number one in its home state, Virginia.