Played Congo two days in a row in July, the Thurs/Fri right after the AT&T National ended. I found the course in great shape, but I see that Cabell was there after me and found the greens spotty. During my time there, a lot of our discussions had to do with the upcoming tournament schedule that Congressional was looking at, with the US Am in '09 and the US Open in '11. Just four days after Tiger's event, they were staring at headlines in the USA today that Tiger wanted his event to become an annual. I will make some assumptions. One, they accepted the Am in the hopes of securing an Open, which was successful. They later signed on to host Tigers event and perhaps are victims of their success? Having not talked to my host last week when hearing that the Am was moved to Southern Hills and reading the article, I simply assumed that they were able to convince the USGA that they were doing things "for the good of the game" and the Am was presenting too much of a challenge, either from members grumbling or truly worrying about a possible July and then August event in usual DC heat and humidity. I'm also in the tournament golf business and I know that sponsor and host facility contracts like to work in 3 year terms, so I am guessing that Tigers folks locked it down for '08-'10, allowing the USGA to come in in 2011. All uneducated guesses, would be sorry to hear that Congo is actually looking at serious maintenence issues...