Potomac, MD
Congressional Country Club
Congressmen Oscar Bland and O. R. Luhring proposed Congressional in 1921 as a place where legislators and businesspeople could meet socially. Herbert Hoover supported the project, and lifetime memberships helped finance it. The opening celebration on May 23, 1924 drew more than seven thousand invited guests.
- Courses
- 2 courses
- Club website
- Visit website
Courses
Course design
From political meeting place to training ground
During the Second World War the Club took on a very different purpose. Leased to the government in 1943, it became a training location for the Office of Strategic Services, including instruction in espionage, sabotage and parachuting. It returned to members in 1945.
Championships
Upcoming championships2
Results and dates 9 editions
U.S. Open
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Ken Venturi
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Ernie Els
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Rory McIlroy
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Intercollegiate Golf Championship
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Ed White
PGA Championship
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Dave Stockton
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U.S. Junior Amateur
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Gay Brewer
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U.S. Senior Open
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Tom Weiskopf
U.S. Women's Amateur
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Barbara McIntire
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Women's PGA Championship
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KPMG Women's PGA Championship
In Gee Chun
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes21 references
Sources for this story
- History Congressional Country Club
1921 formation, 1924 opening and 1943–45 OSS use.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources20 references
- Club mark source
- PGA: Congressional Blue course director guide
- Eric R. McPherson, CGCS
- J. Drew Rogers: Congressional project and course history
- Rees Jones Inc.
- Ryder Cup future venues The official future-venues page announces Congressional Country Club (Blue Course) for 2037.
- Ryder Cup: Official Future Venues The current organizer future-venue list explicitly names Congressional Country Club Blue Course for 2037. Gold Course is excluded. Preserve scheduled status, null match dates and no results; no claim is made about the eventual hole configuration.
- PGA of America: official 2027 Women’s PGA Championship page The organizer’s dedicated 2027 page explicitly schedules June 24–27, 2027 on the Blue Course at Congressional Country Club. Scheduled future edition; no winner, result or completed-round claim is recorded.
- PGA of America: official KPMG Women’s PGA Championship history Official 2022 history record: June 23-26, 2022; Congressional Country Club, Bethesda, Maryland; winner In Gee Chun, 283 (-5). Winner and round-score total agree with the organizer’s separate winners table.
- 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 2011 Championship, champion, explicit date span, and site in Championship Results: 1895 to 2025. The recorded champion and site preserve the higher-resolution register text. The current official U.S. Open Champions table independently confirms the year, champion, and site.
- Rees Jones, Inc.: Congressional Blue Course and the 2011 U.S. Open The designer’s account expressly connects Congressional’s Blue Course to the 2011 U.S. Open and traces the 1989 rebuilding, 1997 tournament and 2011 preparation as work on the same course. The former 2010 label is not an opening date. This does not assign the 1964 Composite Course or Gold Course to the event.
- PGA Tour: U.S. Senior Open verified results PGA Tour 2015 Champions media guide, PDF page 213 / printed page 212, year row establishes a completed championship and named winner. No event dates are inferred from advertised schedules. Host-club evidence: www.usga.org.
- USGA: Host States and Clubs, 1895 to Present (as of October 13, 2025) Gold club identity reviewed against the source host entry Congressional C.C., Bethesda (6), 1995 Senior Open. Exact physical course and round scope remain unresolved; no single-course inference is made.
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 58th playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
- PGA Championship host record The 1976 PGA record names Congressional. The canonical Club name and state match the dated PGA host record. The historical routing needs reconciliation. The stored Blue Course is labelled 2010 and lacks a hole count. Host and competition dates: www.pgachampionship.com
- USGA championship host record Official Club or regional association evidence corroborates the historical host identity for Congressional Country Club; the dated USGA venue wording and canonical locality are retained separately. The 1964 Composite and historical Blue routing require Course identity review. The stored Blue record is explicitly labelled 2010 and lacks a hole count. Host and competition dates: www.usga.org
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 8, 1959 result row. Retrospective completed-championship result and date range.
- USGA: U.S. Junior Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 1949 result row. Completed championship and final result. Gay Brewer defeated Mason Rudolph, 6 and 4. Actual date range from the retrospective result table.
- NCAA: 2025 Division I Mens Golf Championships Records Book NCAA records PDF pages 5 and 9 identify this completed 1935 historical intercollegiate edition and separate team/individual champions. Princeton official 1935 results corroborate the site and its own team placing. This pre-1939 championship is not an NCAA title; dates and match margins remain unasserted.
- NCAA records and Princeton Athletics: 1930-1939 golf history NCAA PDF page 5 names the 1935 site; the official Princeton 1935 section identifies Congressional C.C., Washington. Michigan Athletics independently names Congressional CC, Bethesda, Maryland. Club-level precision only. Do not assign a modern Course, historical routing or round-specific use without independent physical-course evidence.