Photo by Tony Quinn

This weekend, under scorching weather that will feature temperatures inching close to 100 degrees, Congressional Country Club in Bethesda will play host to the PGA’s AT&T National tournament. At a press conference yesterday, Tiger Woods, whose foundation is a sponsor of the tournament, yukked it up with golf reporters.

Perhaps Woods was talking about “not having [his] A-game,” or whatever it is that golfers talk about.

Actually, Washingtonian’s Brett Haber has an interesting argument about the tournament, which is returning to Congressional after two years at a course near Philadelphia. A high-profile, four-day tournament is no fun for the club’s regular members, who pay boatloads of money to rub elbows with each other. But when the tournament is in town, the club is overrun by PGA staffers, media pavilions and other nuisances. The tennis center, for instance, is repurposed as a media center.

Oh, the horror, Haber writes:

There’s a good chance your first inclination upon hearing this news is: “So what?” Mine was, too. Having grown up going to public schools and playing in public parks, every time I think of a country club, I can’t avoid conjuring an image of Ted Knight doing Judge Smails in Caddyshack. The difference is that the fictional Bushwood Country Club would likely be a lot cheaper than the actual Congressional, and a lot easier to get into. According to various reports, the initiation fee at Congressional is $120,000 with a ten-year waiting list to get in. Assuming you’re willing to pay the freight and wait the decade, you still can’t play golf at the place for your first two years. Suddenly their complaints don’t seem so out-of-line.

Well, yes they do. The tournament, despite displacing country-club snobs for four days in early summer, raises lots of money for more than 100 charitable causes, including two Tiger Woods Learning Center campuses in D.C.

But enough with the plight of the well-heeled and back to the photo, which was snapped by DCist Flickr user Tony Quinn. What’s Tiger grinning about? Give us your best caption in the comments below. Best one wins a free round of golf.

(Free round of golf to take place at the National Building Museum’s mini-golf course, which is only $5.)