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Columbia Country Club

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construction vehicles to use club property, guaranteed four-foot sound walls and promises of meetings at least every three months to discuss ongoing work. The county also agreed to give the club, at no cost, 'exclusive' use of two golf-cart underpasses and county-owned land where the golf course already exists", the
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A common saying among members and caddies is that "there are only two flat lies at Columbia, on the tee and in your pocket". Driving the ball long distances can get a player into trouble due to deep rough, side-hill lies, pot bunkers, and the aforementioned tight fairways. Almost every approach shot
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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. Course superintendents generally keep the Columbia greens at a very high speed,
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reported. The agreement also prevented the signatories from talking about the agreement, and bound the club to stop opposing the project. But the agreement did not bind individual club members, who continued their opposition by lobbying and giving money to elected officials for at least two years.
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In 2000, the Maryland government began to formally study a long-proposed light-rail line along the right-of-way. The two-track transit line would use a wider swath of the right-of-way than did the old single-track freight line, but would stay within Montgomery County's property lines. But it would
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for decades against women and non-white people, barring them from membership and forbidding female guests to enter certain dining areas. That began to change in 1989, when the state of Maryland threatened to take away a tax break unless the club ceased to "discriminate in granting memberships or
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Within two years, the club had spent thousands of dollars on lobbying against the proposal, while individual members had held fundraisers for sympathetic politicians. In 2008, the club's leaders said they were increasing their "community and government relations efforts at the state and federal
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and Montgomery County. Under the agreement, the planned Purple Line route would be moved about 12 feet to the north for 1,700 feet, protecting clubhouse views and sparing four of the holes that the club had built on the railroad's right-of-way. "Other concessions include a one-year limit for
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The first swimming pool, donated by Donald Woodward, opened in 1925. The club added several acres in the 1930s, bringing it to 146.38 acres. Later, an Olympic-sized pool was built; the entire area was renovated in 1978. Platform tennis courts were added to the regular courts in the 1960s.
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plays uphill or downhill, with severe downhill plays on #2, #5, #12, #14, #15, and #16. Hole #17 at Columbia is a unique hole, requiring a 200-yard tee shot to a short but wide of fairway, then a 70-yard chip uphill to a green sloped from front to back.
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Club members objected to this reuse of the right-of-way. They sued the county and the United States for damages after the trail was opened, alleging that repurposing the old freight line for use by hikers and bikers was an unconstitutional
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railroad. The club built its golf course on both sides of the rail line; for more than a half-century, club members would cross the tracks to golf alongside trains hauled by steam and then diesel locomotives between the B&O's busy
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With the exception of the eighth hole, there have been changes on all holes of the course. Major changes have been made on the 15th, 16th, and 17th holes, made possible by the construction of a water line through the area by the
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In September 2022, Columbia completed an overhaul of its golf course that installed a modern irrigation and drainage system, renovated bunkers, and re-sodded the fairways with a hybrid Bermuda-rye grass mix.
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The clubhouse was designed by club member Frederick B. Pyle, whose design was selected from a pool of four. The new club opened on January 6, 1911. The golf course, completed that same year, was designed by
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It is the successor of the Columbia Golf Club, organized in Washington, D.C., in 1898. Its current site was purchased in 1909; its golf course, which opened two years later, was designed by
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Within a few years of losing its effort to block one proposed reuse of the old railroad right-of-way, Columbia Country Club became a prominent opponent of another one: Maryland's
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level", including organizing "grassroots" opposition. By 2013, the club was "long viewed as one of the most well-financed and politically connected Purple Line foes", the
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In late 2022, the club began a three-year renovation of its clubhouse's lower level that aims to expand the kitchen and update it, the dining room, and the locker rooms.
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made extensive renovations to the course in 1915. There is no newspaper record of the event and early Club minutes have been lost. The course was a favorite of President
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Presently, a larger site was desired, and so a new club was incorporated on August 25, 1909, with 200 of the Columbia Golf Club's 600 members. This new
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That year, there was an eight-year waiting list for prospective members, the longest among 47 private clubs near Washington, D.C., that responded to a
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require the club to alter several holes that had been expanded over the years onto land that was part of the railroad's right-of-way.
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In 2009, the club completed a renovation and expansion of the club house, adding an indoor swimming pool, better fitness center, a
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on September 29, 1898. Its original location was in Washington, D.C., on the east side of Brightwood Avenue, afterwards known as
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golf tournament in 1921. Its members, who for eight decades kept themselves all-white and all-male, have included U.S. President
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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.
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reported. The club agreed. Still, the following year, the club had 1,635 members, all men. None were Black or Latino.
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under its power of eminent domain. In 2012, new tee boxes and a better irrigation system were added.
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The club has employed only four head golf professionals in its century-plus of operation:
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survey. The initial fee to join at the time was $ 22,000 (equivalent to $ 51,000 today).
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bought the right-of-way to preserve it for use as a potential trolley route between
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bowling alley, locker rooms, ice-skating rink (winter only), and more parking.
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Like many clubs of its era, the all-white, all-male Columbia Country Club
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In the 1990s, Columbia Country Club tried to prevent the opening of a
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Golf anecdotes : from the links of Scotland to Tiger Woods
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A 1921 aerial view of Columbia Country Club, looking north
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That year, the club secured a 25-page agreement with the
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Country club and golf course in Chevy Chase, Maryland, US
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and rarely do they roll anything less than an 11 on the
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ended service along the line in 1985, the government of
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By 1994, the club had begun admitting women members.
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The Columbia Country Club: As It Was in the Beginning.
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Chevy Chase, Maryland
1921 U.S. Open
U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship
United States Girls' Junior Golf Championship
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Georgia Avenue NW
Park View
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Georgetown
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