This Is The Best Golf Course In MD, Say Pro Golfers Who’ve Played It

MARYLAND — Congressional's Blue Course in Bethesda is the best golf course Maryland has to offer, according to a new ranking developed by golfers themselves.

Golf Digest deploys 1,700 professionally trained low-handicap golfers to continually assess the golf courses. The rankings are based on more than 80,000 evaluations over 10 years, looking at criteria such as short options, challenge, design variety, conditioning, aesthetics, and character.

Congressional Country Club: Blue has been an icon of traditional American parkland golf since the 1964 U.S. Open, according to Golf Digest.

Here’s what else the publication had to say about the course:

“Robert Trent Jones combined nine remodeled Devereux Emmet holes with nine new ones of his own to create the modern Blue, and those holes were remodeled and reshaped several times by son Rees for the 1997 and 2011 Opens. All the while, the trees around them matured, creating dense, shadowy corridors of wood.”

In 2020, the course underwent a major overhaul when it was stripped of its forests, “creating broad, rollicking fairways that tumble through meadows of long fescue punctuated by fearsome bunkers and bold, segmented greens,” Golf Digest said.

There are plenty of other courses in Maryland that prioritize the aesthetics of their fairways and greens and test the golfers who play on them with a variety of challenges.

Others on the list include:

2. Baltimore Country Club: East, Lutherville-Timonium
3. Caves Valley Golf Club, Owings Mills
4. Burning Tree Club, Bethesda
5. Woodmont Country Club: North, Rockville
6. Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase
7. Congressional Country Club: Gold, Bethesda
8. Columbia Country Club, Chevy Chase
9. Bulle Rock Golf Course, Havre de Grace
10. Woodmont Country Club: South, Rockville
11. TPC Potomac At Avenel Farm, Potomac
12. Four Streams, Beallsville
13. U.S. Naval Academy Golf Club, Annapolis
14. Links At Perry Cabin, Saint Michaels
15. Whiskey Creek Golf Club, Ijamsville

This is the 25th edition of Golf Digest’s Best in State ranking, which has been published continually since 1977.

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