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The AT&T National is a PGA Tour event held in the Washington D.C. area during the Fourth of July weekend. The event is hosted by Tiger Woods and benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation. The first AT&T National was held during July 5-8, 2007 and was hosted by by the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. The event returned to Congressional in 2008 and will again be hosted by the club in 2009.
The event was officially announced on March 7, 2007 and replaced The International, which tour officials had abruptly cancelled on February 8, 2007.[1] The AT&T National does not use the Modified Stableford scoring system that the International used.
The last tour event to be held in the D.C. area was the Booz Allen Classic, which was terminated after the 2006 event.
The Congressional Country Club originally agreed to host the event for the first two years, and after opting out of hosting the 2009 U.S. Amateur, agreed to host the event in 2009 as well. The Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania will host the event in 2010 and 2011.
Other courses that were originally considered for the new tournament were in the Kansas City, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Portland areas. Possible sites for the 2010 and 2011 events were the TPC at Avenel in neighboring Potomac, Maryland (former site of the Booz Allen Classic) and Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia (played host to the Presidents Cup four times).
CBS and The Golf Channel carry the AT&T National, which is the third event on the PGA Tour to be sponsored by the telecommunications giant. The others are the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the AT&T Classic (formerly the BellSouth Classic). | 
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