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TPC Potomac hosted Web.com Tour events in successive years; the Neediest Kids Championship in 2012 and Mid-Atlantic Championship in 2013. In 2014, the PGA Tour announced that TPC Potomac would host the Quicken Loans National in 2017. [8] The tournament marked the first time the PGA Tour had held an event at TPC Potomac since 2006.
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 twice, in 1989 and 2006. The ...
The club contains two 18-hole golf courses, both par 72. The Championship Course was designed by Tom Fazio, and the Riverview course was added in 1999, when the club was still known as the Lowes Island Club. The Riverview Course abuts the Potomac River and was originally designed by Arthur Hills.
Like all but one golf course in Washington, D.C., from 1900 to 1955, East Potomac Park Golf Course was racially segregated, and barred African Americans from using the course. In 1941, several black golfers attempted to play at East Potomac Park Golf Course, but were attacked by whites throwing stones and threatening them with more violence. [13]
Rock Creek Park Golf Course is one of three golf courses in Washington, D.C., along with East Potomac Park Golf Course and Langston Golf Course, all owned by the National Park Service. Since 2020, they have been operated under a 50-year lease to National Links Trust, a non-profit organization.
For most of his 25 years as a golf professional, Dirk Schultz has made Beaver Creek Country Club his business address. Starting July 17, Schultz will have a new location as he becomes the director ...
The course at Burning Tree has been played by numerous presidents, foreign dignitaries, high-ranking executive officials, members of Congress, and military leaders. The course was designed by architect C.H. Alison. The club has a strict policy forbidding women to enter the club, except under rare circumstances.
Columbia's par-70 (35-35) course measures 6,900 yards (6,300 m) with a course rating of 72.3 and slope rating of 139. The course favors shotmaking and finesse over the ability to drive the ball long distances. The natural topography of the area means that Columbia's course is very hilly, with tight fairways and small, undulating greens.