The RNGC Evolution
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We’re beginning an exciting transformation at Reston National and want your input. Which practice-facility upgrades excite you? Are there course improvements you would prioritize? Share your ideas using the form below or speak with staff in the clubhouse. Your feedback will help refine plans as construction drawings progress and ensures we deliver an experience that meets your needs.
The RNGC Evolution
Reston National Golf Course (RNGC) has offered affordable public golf since 1967. After six decades of heavy play, the fairways and greens are compacted, and the original irrigation and drainage systems are failing. In the 2025 season, persistent rain followed by extreme heat highlighted how fragile the course had become: water pooled on fairways, suffocating turf, and then scorched when the sun returned. Routine maintenance is no longer enough and wholesale upgrades are required.
To achieve these wholesale upgrades, Reston National will sell and develop less than 15 acres of its approximately 175-acre property (only about 10% of the land) to build much-needed housing that is compatible with the surrounding neighborhoods. Proceeds from the sale will fund the major course upgrades, ensuring that Reston National remains challenging, competitive, and affordable for the next 60 years. The planned homes and golf course improvements are part of one unified vision.
Reston National leadership will keep the community updated on the construction schedule as the Fairfax County development process moves forward. Most importantly, the RNGC Evolution will ensure uninterrupted play during construction though careful course planning, additional parking, and cart circulation changes. RNGC will be a national model for maintaining public access and affordability in a modern suburban 18-hole course with upgraded facilities, expanded junior and adult learning opportunities, and challenging course play.
All-Season Technology- Enhanced Driving Range
Double-Decked Driving Range: The centerpiece of the improvements is a two-level driving range. The lower level will be covered, heated, and equipped with fans, providing protection from Mid-Atlantic heat, cold, rain, and snow with lighting complementing the existing driving range lighting. There will also be ample room for spectators and coaches to observe behind the hitting bays. The upper level will be open to the sun!
New decked driving ranges are typically about 15 feet tall which keeps the height well below the existing clubhouse roof. The driving range improvement are in keeping with best practice and consistent with Fairfax County’s public decked and lit driving ranges.
Technology-Enhanced Practice: The driving range will be equipped with ball-tracking and gaming technology that overlays shot data onto screens. The latest hi-tech systems enable virtual course simulations, skill challenges, mini-games and leaderboards to compete with friends or practice targeted shots. The facility will use lower-flight and shorter-flight balls which the system compensates so that swing feedback and distance control remain true to life and keeping the balls within the driving range designated area.
Expanding Short-Game Facilities
Short Course: We will build a dedicated three-hole short course adjacent to the range. This compact, lighted, layout will serve the golf school and our teaching professionals for year-round short-game instruction and clinics consistent with Fairfax County public courses.
The Learning Center: With the separate short-course and the covered range, we can expand our adult clinics, private lessons and our junior camps, adding more participants while providing expanded training facilities. In the past, camps have been constrained because the main golf course is too busy for expanded teaching during busy golfing hours. The RNGC evolution will open more tee times for golfers AND more teaching time for campers.
Course & Infrastructure Upgrades
KemperSports (https://www.kempersports.com) has over 40 years of managing, developing, and upgrading golf courses around the country. Reston National is among the 240 courses they manage. Reston National has engaged Quitno Golf Designs (https://quitnogolf.com) to work with Kemper to ensure uninterrupted play during construction and to deliver a modern, challenging and beautiful 18-hole course with night-golf options when complete.
During construction, holes 10 and 18 will be reconfigured and other holes will be affected. We will also upgrade most tees, greens, bunkers, trees/shrubs, and fairways to enhance overall playability. Reston National will also add a one level “Back 9 Café” for a golfer turn snack experience.
Prior to construction, Reston National will reconfigure our primary parking lot and add new parking in front of the clubhouse. Reston National, Quitno, and Kemper are committed to ensure the new parking configuration will improve access, improve traffic flow, and enhance guest convenience.
We will also install new netting between the driving range and new short game area for the comfort of our golfers and residents. Existing areas of netting around the range will remain.
Modern irrigation and drainage systems will improve weather resiliency, and new maintenance equipment such as mowers, aerators, sand-trap tools, will support long-term turf health.
Thoughtful Housing Integration
Housing is a critical priority in Fairfax County. The County’s latest Housing Needs Assessment, published March 2026, has identified the need for 41,000-95,000 new homes by 2035 to keep pace with household growth and maintain a healthy housing supply for residents across Fairfax County, including Reston.
In keeping with the original zoning established for Reston National in the late 1960s and early 1970’s, the new plans call for 306 stacked townhomes including affordable dwelling units. The homes are designed to complement the style, scale and home sizes of the Reston cluster developments surrounding the golf course.
(https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/housing/homeownership/programs)
Our local homebuilder partner is NV Homes (https://www.nvhomes.com/). NV Homes brings more than 45 years of experience building homes in Northern Virginia and is headquartered right here in Reston. The planned 3-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom homes will be between 1,600 sf and 2,600 sf. Each home has a garage and driveway for 2 total parking spots per home. The new homeowner open space areas envision amenities such as court yards, park seating areas, tot lots, dog parks and other recreation areas. The planned homes and golf course improvements are part of one unified vision. New, much-needed, housing is what enables the meaningful course enhancements that current and future golfers will enjoy for years to come.
In discussion with our golfers, as well as Reston and surrounding area residents, we have found strong interest in these golf course-adjacent homes that also offer exceptional convenience to transit. The homes will be located less than 2 miles from the Reston Town Center Metro Station and only about 4 miles from the Innovation Center Metro Station.
In April 2026, Fairfax County accepted the development plans to implement the golf course upgrades and new housing, and those plans are now actively being processed. We look forward to sharing more updates as this exciting community takes shape!
Most importantly, the RNGC evolution will ensure uninterrupted play during construction though careful course planning, additional parking, and cart circulation changes. Reston National will continue to be an affordable, publicly accessible, 18-hole golf course. The planned upgrades will finally modernize and expand the course for today’s golfer. RNGC’s beloved broad, open fairways, ponds, tall trees, and long open views will remain across about 160 acres in the heart of Reston and Fairfax County.
Next Steps
RNGC would love to hear from our golfers, neighbors, people interested in the new homes and affordable housing units. RNGC will continuously update this website to share phasing, timelines, and more details. We invite you to join the conversation by telling us which upgrades matter the most to you and help shape the future of Reston National and new housing for Reston and Fairfax County.
If you play at RNGC, you are already in our community. Even if you are not a RNGC golfer, but interested the Evolution of RNGC, please fill out this quick form and we will keep the information flowing!