With the tentacles of suburban spread slowly eating up all the land for townhouse developments the Pinecrest golf course is an oasis inside the beltway to work on your game.

With its narrow fairways and blind tee shots on certain holes, strategic shoots are necessary for this short course. Like most courses nestled inside densely populated areas, the lack of room between holes and rough is at a premium.  Town homes line some of the holes and a couple of roads lie parallel to some fairways.

With a couple of straight forward easy Par 3's this course should be a good round for the decent golfer but with the last Par 5 that has a dog leg that bends to at least 90 degrees the encroaching fairways of this executive nine hole course will test any level of play. 

Amigos favorite Hole: The Par 5, number 8 was the hole we liked best at the Pinecrest golf course. This hard dogleg right is a classic risk/reward example. The long hitter can be in perfect position to reach the green in two with a good tee shot, but for those with any waywardness in their shot a small pond is on the right and dense brush to the left and in between is a very narrow landing area. 

Both Amigos played safe and laid up to a shorter much wider fairway area.

From there our second shot was a short iron to the landing area prior to crossing the pond. Both third shots were just off the green and two bogeys were the best we could do on this tricky Par 5.