Lake Of The Woods Country Club

Lake of the Woods is a private country club community in Locust Grove, a small town in Orange County, Virginia, roughly an hour south of Washington, D.C. The course serves the residents of the surrounding Lake of the Woods planned community — a development built around a 550-acre lake that has defined this corner of the Virginia Piedmont since the late 1960s. That community identity gives the club a genuinely local, members-first character that's increasingly rare this close to a major metropolitan area.

Orange County sits in the transitional zone between the Blue Ridge foothills and the coastal plain, and the terrain here rolls in the gentle, unhurried way typical of Virginia's Piedmont — mature hardwoods, red clay soil, and a landscape that turns striking in autumn. Summers are warm and humid, stretching the playing season well into fall.

The par-71 layout — one fewer par 5 than a standard card — tends to put a premium on precise iron play and rewards golfers who can navigate a shorter, more strategic test rather than overpowering it with length.