About Us
Meadows Farms Championship Golf Course is the dream of Bill "Farmer" Meadows - owner of Meadows Farms Nurseries - who began playing golf in 1990. Upon experiencing the crowded course conditions, the high fees and observing relatively unfriendly attitudes and poor management, he began to visualize a new kind of golf course. His pure bred Santa Gertrudis Cattle Farm located in Locust Grove, Virginia, was an ideal site with its beautiful gently rolling countryside.
Situated 1 and 1/4 hours drive from Washington, D.C., 1 and 1/4 hours from Richmond, 45 minutes from Charlottesville and only 15 minutes from Fredericksburg makes the course easily accessible to thousands of golfers. The philosophy of providing players with a "No Frills" Championship Course, keeping fees at the lowest of any course in the area will bring more golf playing within the reach of thousands of players.
The 180 acre course has been designed by Bill Ward, Jr. - an up and coming designer with six golf courses to his credit - the latest - a Championship Course in Cumberland, Maryland. Ward has put maximum effort into designing 27 holes, each one with a distinct character.
Designing 27 holes, each one with a distinct character to offer a wide range of challenges and experiences. Maximum effort has been put in individualizing each hole so that the golfer will feel as if he/she has played 27 different courses rather than playing the same hole 27 times. Each hole has a story to tell. The Signature hole is a par 6 (the only one in Virginia), and when played from the championship tee is 841 yards.
This is recognized by the Guinness' book of records as "The Longest Hole in the United States." The design gives every level of golfer an option on how to play the hole - challenging not just the golf pro and the low-handicapper but the same advantages for the high-handicapper. Plans provide appropriate tees for women - planned and constructed from the beginning not just an afterthought. The course is fair but challenging - any kind of tournament, professional play or otherwise will be possible.
Ward has brought some new ideas to Virginia golf, taking elements from major courses in Florida and California. There are elevated tees, bounce bunkers, rock and railroad tie walls in and around the greens and bunkers and seven water crossings.
Bill Meadows' talent for unique landscaping is evident throughout the course. Seasonal colorful flora provides aesthetic appeal and charm with spring colors from February into autumn hues in shades of brown, red and gold into winter interest of colorful barks and stems and architecturally interesting tree and shrub shapes. Also of interest is playing around a pre-civil war homestead and cemetery and on the very ground where civil war battles were fought. Fields of grazing champion purebred Santa Gertrudis Cattle adds another dimension.
This public course opened in April 1993. The natural lay of the land and already existing ponds and cleared land kept construction costs at a minimum. Efficient management with great emphasis on friendliness and making players feel welcome and comfortable should make this course world famous.
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