Robert Trent Jones Golf Club

Robert Trent Jones Golf Club is a private golf club located in Gainesville, Virginia, a suburb southwest of Washington D.C. Opened for play in 1991, the par 72 course plays between 5570and.Founding and premisesRTJ was founded by the legendary golf course designer Robert Trent Jones "while conducting an aerial site survey for another project," and it was designed by him, too. Located about 30mi from downtown Washington D.C., the course is on Lake Manassas, an 850acre reservoir.Jones is to have said "the terrain is aesthetically perfect...I don't think we could have done anything better anywhere," and he has created legendary courses Spyglass Hill, Firestone Country Club, Bellerive Country Club, and Congressional Country Club. He actually bought this land in the hopes of attracting a world-class membership because there was a need to create a world-renowned golf course in the area. He called this course "my masterpiece," and it opened for play in April 1991.RTJ has a clubhouse that is a "65000sqft Georgian-style mansion, with its red brick exterior and stately white columns and portico serves as the clubhouse," and the club does not allow for residential development, but does allow members of the club to construct cottages. For all the water around the golf course the only hole that a player has to fly the ball over open water on the lake is the par-three eleventh hole.