Firestone and Walter Chrysler to name a few. Congressional is synonymous with the Presidents of the United States. President Dwight Eisenhower and his Cabinet frequented the lush fairways on many occasions, as did recent leaders George Bush and Bill Clinton.
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. Women's Amateur and the U. Open, while his son Rees, who took over as the 'Open Doctor' from his father, came aboard in the early s for the last major renovation work for the U.
Senior Open and the U. Jones rebuilt every green and bunker, re-graded many fairways and added considerable mounding. He returned to Congressional in to design a new par three to replace the original 18th, which played back to the clubhouse. The new hole is now the 10th and plays away from the main building, stretching as much as yards. The U. The best was yet to come, as the U. Open was awarded to Congressional.
With temperatures approaching , Tommy Jacobs played the first two days in four-under par and led Arnold Palmer by one with Sunday's final 36 holes remaining. Six shots back was Venturi, who after losing to Palmer at the Masters, suffered through numerous injuries and by was hardly noticed.
That would all change on Sunday. Despite the heat and humidity, Venturi opened with a front- nine 30 to take the lead.
After adding another birdie on 12, the weather conditions began to take its toll on Venturi, as he missed a pair of short par putts on the final two holes of the third round for a Jacobs fashioned an even-par 70 to lead by two heading into the afternoon's final round. Visibly drained, Venturi was given salt tablets and tea and was advised by a doctor, a Congressional member, to withdraw from the event. The former CBS commentator played steady golf, making 14 pars, two birdies and two bogeys for a final score of 70, a total and a four-stroke win over Jacobs, who collapsed down the stretch with a Venturi's final hole total of set a record at the time and his last 36 of tied the record.
In the press room afterwards, Venturi was asked what he thought of Congressional and without hesitation, 'Best course I ever won the Open on. Palmer, who played in the final group with Jacobs, shot 74 and tied for fifth. Venturi would later add two more wins in and was voted PGA Tour player of the year. Tom Weiskopf opened with a tournament-low 65 to take the lead, but could not continue his fine play, closing with to tie for eighth. Trailing by eight shots at the halfway point, Dave Stockton roared into contention with a 69 to trail Charles Coody by only four.
With the final round being played on Monday for the first time in history due to rain, Stockton shot an even-par round of 70 for a one-shot win over Ray Floyd, who played with Venturi for those final 36 holes during the Open, and Don January.
Standing on the final tee 17th hole was the final hole for the PGA, Open and Senior Open , Stockton needed to make par to avoid a playoff.
Stockton's total of one-over matched the highest winning total at the time. They can either start their own game or join a foursome.
Players can also compete in different virtual golf courses and can play individually or they play with as many as four players at one time. The Gold Course has always been the shorter of the two courses.
It measures at 6, yards when measuring from the back tees and has a par 71 with the slope rating being The bent grass is normally used for the fairways, whereas the Poa annua grass is mainly used for the greens. In the Gold Course was renovated by George and Tom Fazio where the final nine holes were re-done. Then later, in the year of , the course was completely renovated by Arthur Hills.
He lengthened the course, and the fairways, tees, greens and the cart paths were all reconstructed. After the reconstruction was completed, the Gold course became just as challenging as the Blue Course.
Throughout the years, this Golf Course Country Club has hosted many tournaments. The Congressional Golf Club has been graced by the presence of many notable winners since its establishment. The Golf Course and Country Club also have various upcoming tournaments and championships scheduled for through As many members and guests have frequented the Clubhouse, it has developed a wide array of amenities to accommodate them.
By the time Green set to work on dealing with the site, everything had changed about the golf course. After Congressional returned to civilian use, plans developed for additional golf, with Robert Trent Jones Sr, then the dean of modern golf course architecture.
He was hired to build a third nine while renovating the original front nine. Thus, was born the Blue course, opened in , featuring a dramatic downhill par-four seventeenth hole to a peninsula green, followed by a mid-length par-three eighteenth across a pond to a green sitting under the clubhouse patio.
More work ensued on Congressional, with the old third nine folded into a new hole Gold course when George and Tom Fazio added a fourth nine to the club in In the late s, Rees Jones began a succession of work rebuilding the Blue, in the process reshaping greens, moving bunkers to conform to landing points of modern championship golf, and framing landing areas and greens with mounding.
He managed to create a contiguous hole routing so that the championship venue could rely upon an entirely Blue course rather than borrow holes in composite fashion. As Green assessed this design legacy it was evident there was no clear template to rely upon. He set out to bring the holes back down to earth and create a more natural looking, older style to Congressional Blue.
It also had to solve some basic agronomic and conditioning issues that had come to bedevil the place. The proliferation of greenside mounding also tended to create issues, by steering water onto the green fillpad while impeding air movement. The mounding on the backside of bunkers also create low spots that trapped water. The result was a golf course with cool season grasses in a region with notoriously hot, humid summer weather and a less-than-ideal microclimate.
Most of what it takes to make a project work takes place behind the scenes, quietly, during a protracted planning process. At Congressional, Green worked closely with Wendt, club chief executive Jeffrey Kreafle and director of golf Jason Epstein, as well as the board and a specially designed Master Plan Committee. Together they updated the membership, including a full reveal at which Green walked folks through the entire plan.
The last thing anybody wants is for there to be surprises — especially because the changes proposed entailed a different kind of golf course, with the standard tree line to tree line maintenance of a parkland layout giving way to something more open and more natural. It probably helped ease concerns that at least the Gold Course would be kept open throughout — though no one could have anticipated the extra demand for golf once the pandemic hit in March and left many members homebound and looking for recreation.
Before construction could begin in October , the club had to secure extensive permitting from county, state and federal authorities. This covered everything from water quality and erosion control to caliper-for-caliper tree mitigation as per local mandate. To satisfy concerns about potential runoff the club agreed to build a staggered series of retention basins, five of them at least an acre each in size, three of them half an acre large.
That considerably complicated movement of equipment and personnel across the site during construction. In this and everything else, contractor McDonald and Sons demonstrated their experience.
When coronavirus hit, work momentarily halted to see how the state of Maryland would regulate outdoor construction. Work soon proceeded, though under extreme caution, with labourers being assigned to individual pieces of equipment and extreme care taken on a daily basis regarding sanitary procedures and social distancing. The installation numbers are impressive. The new drainage included basins and 38 miles of pipe, everything from two-inch perforated up to inch solids.
A new irrigation system designed by Larry Collins included an MCI pump station with a capacity to drive 4, gallon per minute across the entire hole site. The new Toro system for the Blue course comprised 37 miles of pipe, 39 miles of communication wire, quick couplers and 2, Toro Infinity sprinkler heads. Fairways went from 25 acres to 46, all of it sodded with a bentgrass blend that was half and half Matchplay. The putting surfaces were all rebuilt to USGA standards at a variable depth, with a inch sand subsurface that was thinned marginally at high spots and thickened marginally in the low areas.
In the process the average green got enlarged, from 6, square feet to 7, They were then seeded to a bentgrass blend that was one part Piranha, one part Coho and two parts
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