October 6, 2026
Jon: 92Rating / slope 69.7/130
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Columbia Country Club
Columbia Country Club is a private club in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., on its current site since 1911. It hosted the 1921 U.S. Open, where President Warren Harding presented the trophy, and it plays to par 70 on a hilly, tight layout. The Perry Bros played it 4 times, most recently on October 6, 2026; Jon's scores were 91, 89 and 92.
Course facts
- Location
- Chevy Chase, Maryland
- Access
- Private (member-owned)
- Architect
- Herbert Barker, with Walter J. Travis (credit is debated)
- Opened
- 1911 at the Connecticut Avenue site (club founded 1898)
- Renovation
- Walter Travis (1915 to 1916), William Flynn (1930s), bunker restoration (2000), irrigation, drainage and bunkers (2022)
- Par
- 70
- Yardage
- About 6,900 from the back (rating 72.3, slope 139)
- Big events
- 1921 U.S. Open; 2003 U.S. Junior Amateur; 2021 U.S. Girls' Junior
- Website
- columbiacc.org
Our rounds at Columbia
October 7, 2025
Jon: 89Rating / slope 69.7/130
October 15, 2024
Jon: 91Rating / slope 69.7/130
October 5, 2022
About Columbia
The club was organized in 1898 as the Columbia Golf Club and moved to Connecticut Avenue in 1911. Design credit is debated: Herbert Barker is often named as the original designer, while the club notes that Walter J. Travis, who renovated the course in 1915 and 1916, is widely credited.
Jim Barnes won the 1921 U.S. Open here by nine strokes. More recently Columbia hosted the 2003 U.S. Junior Amateur (won by Brian Harman) and the 2021 U.S. Girls' Junior, where Rose Zhang set the course record of 62.
Columbia is our fall stop: we've played it in October 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
What stands out
- Hilly site with tight fairways and small, sloping poa annua greens.
- Coquelin Run winds past holes 1, 15, 16, 17 and 18; the par-3 16th over a pond is the signature hole.
- The course sits on both sides of a former B&O railroad line.
Quick answers
Can you play Columbia Country Club?
Only with a member. Columbia is a private, member-owned club.
Did Columbia Country Club host a U.S. Open?
Yes, the 1921 U.S. Open, won by Jim Barnes by nine strokes. President Warren Harding presented the trophy.
Where is Columbia Country Club?
At 7900 Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C.
Sources: Columbia CC: club history · Wikipedia: Columbia Country Club · Links Magazine: Columbia