The votes are in and the membership at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. overwhelmingly approved a proposal to host the new Tiger Woods tournament July 5-8 as well as the 2008 tournament. That’s good news for Tiger and good news for Washington, D.C. golf fans who hoped the prestigious club would agree to be the site for the new AT&T National. Club members approved the request with 91 percent of the vote. The tour offered Congressional $2.5 million to stage the event.
Congressional was the site of the 1964 and 1997 U.S. Opens and is scheduled to host the 2009 U.S. Amateur and the 2011 U.S. Open. However, the PGA Tour will have to find a different tournament site after 2008, possibly the Robert Trent Jones Club in Gainesville, Va. (site of three previous Presidents Cup events) or the TPC at Avenel, which hosted previous tour events and will undergo extensive renovation this summer.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Leonard Thompson.
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- Mr. Fairway’s love affair with the game of golf began in junior high. He once made his living as a journalist covering high school sports, cops and robbers and politics. Today, Mr. Fairway is a public relations consultant and a widely-published freelance golf writer. His current USGA handicap index is 9.3 and he averages 50-plus rounds a year.