Hole 8 provides the player with a beautiful view of the Washington Monument; your local goat track could never. However, the hole itself can be brutal, especially since it’s often playing into the wind. It can play as long as 215 from the tips, requiring a long iron or wood shot. The green is protected by deep bunkers on the left and right and it slopes severely from back to front, meaning that like Hole 5, any miss over the green can be disastrous. The only good place to miss is short and in front of the green, so you definitely don’t want to take too much club trying to go at the pin here. A short miss leaves you a relatively straightforward uphill chip; trying to get up and down from anywhere else can be dicey. Bizarrely, this is the 9 handicap hole, even though it’s probably the most difficult hole on the front nine. A par on this hole is an achievement, and you shouldn’t beat yourself up if you make a bogey. And take a picture for the ‘gram on the tee box, of course.

UPDATE (March 2023): A new forward tee box is being added which is significantly shorter than the existing forward tee location.