Congressional Country Club (Blue)
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Congressional Country Club is a country club and golf course located in Bethesda, Maryland. Congressional used to be an annual stop on the PGA Tour, hosting the former Kemper Open from 1980 to 1986. Congressional hosted that tournament in 2005 while the tournament’s then current course, the TPC at Avenel, was under renovation. There are two golf courses at Congressional: the flagship Blue Course and the Gold Course. Congressional opened in 1924, and both courses were designed by Rees Jones.
The Blue Course has hosted all of the 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 in 1989. The course measures 7,250 yards from the back tees. It is a par 72 with a course and slope rating of 75.4/142. Bent grass is used for the greens, and bermuda grass is used for the fairways
