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  • The Rolex clock serves the putting green and the clubhouse at Congressional, where President Hoover was the first club president when the course opened in 1924 with 825 life members. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

    U.S. Open host has colorful, historic past

    Don't feel too bad for any golfer who hacks his way into one of the 96 sand bunkers on Congressional Country Club's Blue Course during the U.S. Open this week. No matter how treacherous his plight, he'll have it easier than Betty McIntosh did when she slithered through those bunkers face-down carrying a .32-caliber rifle back in 1945.


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