{"id":483989,"date":"2026-01-01T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/483989\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:56:10","slug":"dulles-golf-center-sports-park-quietly-closes-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/483989\/","title":{"rendered":"Dulles Golf Center &#038; Sports Park quietly closes its doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                <img width=\"1080\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/525469762_1366090982068617_8855653772570763864_n-e1767227944203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-boal-single size-boal-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                                            <\/p>\n<p>We knew it was likely coming, but the news still managed to slip by us. Per posts to social media, the longtime <strong>Dulles Golf Center &amp; Sports Park<\/strong> closed its doors last month.<\/p>\n<p>Dulles Golf \u2013 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Dulles+Golf+Center+%26+Sports+Park\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x8385703eebdd785?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:2428&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">located just off State Road 28<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 apparently had its last day in business the day before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>The entertainment venue, which has been around for decades, included a driving range, miniature golf, and batting cages.<\/p>\n<p>It was a landmark for a generation of Loudoun County kids who celebrated birthdays or burnished their athletic skills there.<\/p>\n<p>(Image at top: Dulles Golf Center &amp; Sports Park)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We knew it was likely coming, but the news still managed to slip by us. Per posts to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":483990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-483989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115818068904847335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}