Chevy Chase Club

Chevy Chase Club has operated on a piece of Chevy Chase, Maryland suburban-Washington land since 1892 — making it one of the oldest country clubs in the Washington DC metropolitan area and one of the founding institutions of organized American club golf. The original routing was a Donald Ross design from the early 1910s, and the course has been redesigned multiple times since with significant work through subsequent decades and continuing agronomic-and-architectural restoration. The modern course reflects the Ross design framework with various twentieth-century updates.

The course plays around 6,800 yards par 71 from the back markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is short by modern championship standards, but the routing's mature tree canopy — Chevy Chase has been continuously developed since the late 1800s — gives the property a parkland character that the back-tee yardage doesn't convey. The fairways play firm given the Maryland clay subsoil that drains quickly. The mature deciduous canopy through the property turns through Mid-Atlantic seasonal colors, and the routing's defense is the green complexes Ross set on natural rises.

Chevy Chase Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Washington metropolitan business, political, and professional families with multi-generation ties through the club's late-1800s founding. The hospitality model is traditional country club, and the club has stayed largely outside the destination-private trend that has reshaped other Washington-area clubs.

Mid-Atlantic climate gives Chevy Chase Club a playing season of April through November, with the firmest conditions in October. Washington summers run hot and humid; morning rounds are the routine member play through July and August. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps. The autumn color through October is part of the routing's seasonal photographic signature.