Lake Presidential Golf Club

Lake Presidential Golf Club is a picturesque championship course in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Located 20 miles from Washington, D.C., this popular, upscale course, now operated by PGA of America Professionals, fills its tee time slots with players who come from all over the Beltway and the Mid-Atlantic region. Widely considered one of best and toughest public courses in Maryland, Lake Presidential Golf Club earned raves from the national golf magazines when it debuted in 2008. The Landmark Land Company, which had previously given golfers such golf resort jewels as Kiawah, PGA West and La Quinta, designed and built the playing field. Within a few years after its opening the course hosted U.S. Open qualifying. As the anchor of a 1,200-acre residential development, Lake Presidential Golf Club is a visually impressive playing field that spreads out over a former tobacco farm and wraps around a tranquil lake. Though there are houses around, you ll be more apt to remember the thick woods composed of giant poplar and sycamore trees, the 30-acre centerpiece lake, a few creeks and other natural attributes on the rolling terrain. This long and intriguing course has a reputation for being playable for golfers of wide ranging skill levels thanks to its generous landing zones. Nevertheless, plenty of trouble lurks to blow up a scorecard. In addition to tee shots that begin from chutes of trees, you ll find sloping fairways, falloffs to ravines, and the occasional gulley to carry. The green complexes are stunning, with brilliant white sand bunkers, run-off areas, swales and hollows, and surrounding thick native grasses. Lake Presidential Golf Club s multi-tiered, undulating putting surfaces come in a variety of shapes and sizes. While the layout tests tour-quality players from its 7,230-yard tips, four additional sets of tee markers give more ordinary golfers distance options ranging from 6,718 yards to as short as 4,895 yards. Among the highlights of the round are a couple of relatively short par 4s and the three holes that make full use of the lake. Though Lake Presidential Golf Club permits walking, it is rarely done because of the hilly nature of the playing field. If you want to warm up before your tee time you ll find a large driving range, chipping area, sand bunker, and putting green. The spacious clubhouse features a full-service pro shop, locker rooms with showers, and a restaurant and bar with multiple televisions and gorgeous views of the centerpiece lake. For an exciting round on a challenging course in the Washington Beltway region, make a tee time at Lake Presidential Golf Club.