Congressional Country Club - Blue

Set on 380 acres along River Road in Bethesda, Congressional Country Club today is a 36-hole private facility whose championship focus is the Blue Course. The club completed a full-scale renovation of the Blue in 2019–21 under Andrew Green, reopening ahead of the 2022 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Green’s work produced a cohesive 18 that is markedly different in look and playing character from the late-20th-century iterations, with broader fairways, reimagined bunkering, and a ground game that plays through bold landforms. The Blue stretches well beyond 7,500 yards from its back markers in member play, but daily setup ranges widely; major-championship yardages have been tailored to event needs. The property’s large Spanish Revival clubhouse remains the club’s architectural anchor, while expanded practice facilities (also part of Green’s project) accommodate modern tournament preparation and member use. Public access is not offered. For visitors on tournament weeks, the Blue’s current identity reflects Green’s effort to re-center the course around a more natural presentation while retaining a robust championship test. Importantly for a directory dedicated to Donald Ross, Congressional presents almost no verifiable, extant Ross fabric; instead, its architectural story turns on Devereux Emmet’s 1924 original, subsequent Robert Trent Jones and Rees Jones campaigns, and Green’s recent transformation.