Congressional GC Lidar

[NobleMan]

I have completed the Lidar version of Congressional Golf Club (Blue Course) in Bethesda, Maryland.  It plays true to life and I feel it is long enough for the master clubs (7414 Yards), and hopefully you will find it to be the same!  Give it a go and let me know what you think.

 A little bit of history behind the course:

Congressional Country Club was founded in 1924 with Herbert Hoover as the Club's first president. Founding life members of the era included Presidents Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge.
Course Description

Congressman Oscar E. Bland and O.R. Lubring of Indiana, founders of the Club, set out to provide an informal common ground where politicians and businessmen could meet as peers, unconstrained by red tape. They took their idea to Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, who agreed to serve as Founders' Club President and, from 1922-1923, Honorary Founding President of a soon-to-be-built Congressional Country Club. Primarily because of the determination of these original two visionaries, the Club was incorporated in December 1921. Construction of the Club took two and one-half years from concept to completion. Its international recognition, intended for the world of politics, has been achieved instead in the world of golf.

Devereux Emmet was the original architect of the course, which opened in 1924. It was then redesigned by Robert Trent Jones Sr., in 1957, and reworked again by Rees Jones in 1989. For this test, the course will play to 7,204 yards with a par of 70. The greens are bent grass, while Bermuda grass is used for the fairways.

[NobleMan]

[yeltzman]

Was this built for Simulator play or the Main TGC 2019 game,seems a bit of a mix of US open distances and normal play holes on the distances.It's a shame you did not add the US open Black Tees and then just add the Congressional Tee's for normal play because on some holes the bunkers just do not come into play.Maybe its just me i would prefer the actual Tee colours to match the scorecard considering how accurate the rest of the course is maybe its down to time not sure.Again like a lot of LIDAR courses tough to blend the water to the course,Thought the 2nd green little too severe for pin 1,rolled ball to slope and it rolled of green(the rest like most LIDAR greens played wonderful).Overall really enjoyed playing if i had not played rod's version in the past would have gone to my Favourites list.








  

[NobleMan]

Thanks for the feedback yeltzman .