Practice AND Fun For Beginners and Seasoned Golfers
Highlands Golf Park is the Charlottesville area’s premier golf practice and learning center, offering golfers of all ages and skill levels a place to improve, learn, and enjoy the game year-round. Conveniently located near Charlottesville and easily accessible from Northern Virginia, Highlands Golf Park features a professionally designed facility built to help players practice every aspect of their game in one beautiful, serene setting.
Our golf facility includes an expansive, fully lighted driving range, 44 grass and mat tee stations, a practice putting green, pitching and chipping areas, sheltered and heated tee stations, and specialty shot practice areas. Golfers can work on long drives, greenside and fairway bunker shots, uphill, downhill, and sidehill lies, and the short game skills that make all the difference on the course.
Whether you are learning golf for the first time or refining advanced techniques, Highlands Golf Learning Center offers a wide range of instructional programs for both juniors and adults. We provide private golf lessons and group instruction designed to help players build confidence, sharpen fundamentals, and improve overall performance.
Highlands Golf Park has been family-owned and operated by the Scheuermann family since 1997. Gretchen Scheuermann, an LPGA Class A Teaching Professional, serves as Director of Instruction for the Teaching Center and provides expert golf instruction for adults and children of all skill levels.
Golfers can perfect their long game, sharpen their short game, and practice the shots that matter most—all in one place. Our driving range has been recognized as one of the Top 100 driving ranges in the USA, and our 18-hole mini golf course, Pirate Pete’s, offers family-friendly fun for all ages.
At Highlands Golf Park, you can improve your golf swing, build your short game, take professional golf lessons, or simply enjoy time with family and friends. From serious practice to relaxed recreation, Highlands Golf Park delivers a complete golf experience in the Charlottesville area.
10421 Seminole Trail, Ruckersville, VA 22968
434 985 2765 | hgpgolf@gmail.com
Highlands Golf Park Is Open Year Round!
Current Hours of Operation: 11am - 7pm Daily
NOTE: Our facility is open 7 days a week. When the pro shop is listed as closed, customers can still come and enjoy our facility.
Our ball dispenser allows customers to use a credit card to purchase buckets of balls.
Located less than 20 minutes north of Charlottesville (1 mile north from the Lowes and Wal-Mart Shopping Center in Ruckersville) just off Rt 29 North, we are an easy drive from anywhere. Don’t forget to bring the kids because Highlands Golf Park offers golfing fun for people of all ages.
DRIVING RANGE
You can practice all aspects of your golf game at Highlands Golf Park, because practice makes PERFECT!
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Pirate Pete's Mini Golf
Highlands Golf Park offers a terrific, pirate-themed mini golf course. It’s fun for all ages and abilities. Friends and families can enjoy time together putting around and through various obstacles, hills and bumps. Mini golf can help with your putting skills and it isn’t just for beach vacations any more! There’s no better way to have fun with the kids and perfect your putting in the fresh air and sunshine!
Ask us about options for birthday parties and group outings on the Pirate Pete golf course. Pirate Pete and his parrot Paulie can’t wait to make your child’s next birthday or your office's next outing a fun and memorable one!
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The Highlands Golf Park Legacy
On May 23, 1997, the Scheuermann family’s longtime passion for the game of golf and it’s rich traditions produced a spectacular golf practice and learning center in Ruckersville, Virginia – The Highlands Golf Park. Owner and retired professional golf instructor, Anne Marie Scheuermann, dedicated the park to the memory of her Scottish father, Leslie W. Mercer, who was also a golf instructor and shared his love for the game with all people of all ages. Mercer pioneered the development of high school golf teams and was an early proponent of public links golf courses.
Anne Marie and her husband, Peter Scheuermann, created both a business and their family’s legacy for the future. Anne Marie was instrumental in growing the business and encouraging others to find passion in the game of golf. In 2006 she was recognized for her contributions to women’s athletics and was Inducted into the Northeast Women’s Sports Hall of Fame. In 1999, Peter and Anne Marie’s daughter Gretchen Sheuermann, an LPGA Class A Golf Instructor, joined the family business, Highlands Golf Park. When her parents retired in 2007, Gretchen took over the reins and continues to run the Highlands Golf Park today.
The Mercer-Scheuermann family has produced a legacy of golfers utilizing their strategically-formed training areas and methods combined with an atmosphere of fun and encouragement. Gretchen Scheuermann and her staff continue that tradition to this day.
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Gretchen and Anne Marie Scheuermann
Golf Legend Bobby Locke with Leslie Mercer and friends
Highlands Golf Park
Under Construction 1997
Golf Instruction
Improve your golf game through exceptional golf instruction at the The Learning Center at Highlands Golf Park. Our method focuses on personalized, professional golf instruction that increases knowledge, confidence, and greater consistency all aspects of your golf game.
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