Congressional Country Club pin flag by Donald Ross 1924 pga open rory mcilroy

Description

Congressional Country Club
is a
country club
and
golf course
in
Bethesda
,
Maryland
, USA. Congressional opened in 1924 and its Blue Course has hosted five major championships, including three
U.S. Opens
and a
PGA Championship
. Founding life members include William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. It is a biennial stop on the
PGA Tour
, with the Quicken Loans National (formerly known as the
AT&T National
) hosted by
Tiger Woods
until 2020. Previously, Congressional hosted the former Kemper Open until its move to nearby
TPC at Avenel
in 1987. Congressional hosted its third U.S. Open in
2011
. Tournament winners at Congressional have included
Rory McIlroy
,
Ken Venturi
,
Ernie Els
,
Justin Rose
and
Tiger Woods
, among many others.
The Blue Course has hosted all of the significant golf tournaments contested at Congressional. The course is often considered among the best 100 courses in the United States;
Golf Digest
ranked it 89th in its 2006 listing of the 100 Greatest Golf Courses. In 2007, Golf Digest ranked it 86th in America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses. The Blue Course has been redesigned by
Robert Trent Jones
in 1957 and
Rees Jones
twice, in 1989 and 2006. The course measures 7,574 yards (6,926 m) from the back tees. It is a par 72 (but plays as a par 71 for all PGA tour events, with hole 11 reduced to a par 4) with a course and slope rating of 75.4/142.
Bent grass
is used for the fairways and for the greens. Until renovated in 2009, Annual Bluegrass (
Poa annua
) was used for the greens