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1. Raspberry Falls Golf Club, Leesburg 2. The Tides Inn, Irvington

EXPERIENCES

NORTHERN LIGHTS: A GOLF EXCURSION
The area from Fredericksburg north
to the nation's capital and west to
Front Royal is populated with so
many outstanding courses you
are sure to find a great links near
wherever you happen to be.
With all the excellent choices
available for golf, restaurants,
lodging, and other fun things to do,
here is a short itinerary (this one
is geared for couples) to get you
started on planning your next great
golf get-a-way.
DAY 1
Spend the first night in Fredericksburg
where The Kenmore Inn is not only
charming and historic (it dates
back to 1824, but has modern
conveniences), and includes
fine dining. Another superb
local restaurant is nearby Olde
Towne Steak and Seafood (come
hungry) and for a fun, after dinner
adventure, step back in time and
be sure to take in Carl's Ice Cream,
a local institution since 1947 that
not only has great ice cream and
custard, but is also listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.

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DAY 3

The following morning, travel
north where several excellent
courses await: Augustine in
Stafford (Top 100 You Can Play
per Golf Magazine); Bull Run
Golf Club in Haymarket (in 2000
the Washington Times named
it the "best public course in the
D.C. area"), Laurel Hill Golf
Club (Lorton), a Bill Love gem
that hosted the 2013 USGA
Public Links Championship, and
Westfields Golf Club in Clifton,
an outstanding Fred Couples
design. All these tracks are south
of greater Washington, D.C. so
you can play that morning and
then make your way closer to the
capitol by mid-afternoon before
rush hour.

The following morning travel west
to Leesburg (on Route 7) or to
Gainesville (via I-66) - both away
from traffic coming into the city where either Raspberry Falls Golf &
Hunt Club (Leesburg) or Stonewall
G ol f Cl ub at L ake M anassas
(Gainesville) will provide a charming
day on the links. The former is a
Gary Player signature design and
Stonewall has received multiple
awards, including being named a
Top 50 Course for Women by Golf
for Women.

Following a delightful first round,
travel to Tysons Corner and the
luxurious Ritz-Carlton. Some of
the finest shopping on the planet
is located at Tysons (and great
eateries), and nearby Wolftrap
National Park for the Performing
Arts draws some of the finest talent
from around the world.

After the round, travel on to the Inn
at Little Washington, a truly luxurious
country inn and restaurant, located
near Washington, Va. The following
morning, following a magnificent
breakfast, travel only 20 miles
to Front Royal, where Blue Ridge
Shadows Golf Club, voted one of
Golf Digest's best new courses in
2007, will provide an ideal final
round to your get-a-way and enable
you to finish in time (and convenient
for transportation in any direction)
for wherever your travels may take
you. NV SV `
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