10th Hole, Blue Course, 218 Yards, par 3, Congressional Country Club, Bethesda, Maryland
Congressional Country Club, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., was envisioned on its founding in 1924 as an informal common ground where legislators and businessmen could meet without the constraints of bureaucracy. Congressional’s Blue Course, originally designed by Devereux Emmet, has been renovated over the years by notable architects Donald Ross, Robert Trent Jones and Rees Jones. The Blue Course has hosted two previous U.S. Open Championships, in 1964 (won by Ken Venturi) and in 1997 (won by Ernie Els), as well as the 1949 U.S. Junior Amateur, the 1959 Women's Amateur and the 1995 U.S. Senior Open.