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Woods's Event in '09 Is Up for Discussion
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Members of Congressional Country Club will hold a town hall meeting on Oct. 30 to discuss a proposal that would allow Tiger Woods to hold his signature PGA Tour tournament on the Bethesda club's Blue Course for a third straight year in 2009.
Woods and his foundation signed a two-year deal to play the AT&T National at Congressional, the inaugural tournament this past July and then again next year. But with the U.S. Golf Association's decision last month to move the 2009 U.S. Amateur from Congressional to Southern Hills in Tulsa, Woods has asked club members to host his tournament for another year.
The USGA also wants Congressional, the site for the 2011 U.S. Open, to redo all 18 greens on the Blue Course, the main reason the Amateur was shifted to Oklahoma. The renovation of the greens also will be discussed at the Oct. 30 meeting, and members will vote by mail on whether to approve that project and the additional year for Woods's event.
Congressional President Stuart Long declined to comment yesterday, but other club sources said they fully expect the members to approve both proposals. In a vote last May, more than 90 percent of the members agreed to the first two-year contract with Woods and his foundation, with a record 1,300 ballots cast.
Sources also said yesterday that under no circumstances will the club host Woods's event in 2010 or 2011 because of the greens renovation and other tweaking of the course in preparation for the Open. Woods is expected to find another course in the Washington area for those two years, with Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville one possibility, but he has said many times he would like Congressional to be the permanent home for his event.
-- Leonard Shapiro
