US Open 2025 - Oakmont

[Arthur Wedge]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1932066178392006701

Course looks a brute

Looks like they are trying to get a winning score around par

anyone who can drive it well will be in with a great chance

Rory needs to sort his out

BDC is clearly driving well

Scheffler will be favourite

But I think we will see a first time winner here

Someone like Cantlay , maybe Aberg

 

[Arthur Wedge]

US Open: Oakmont's fast greens, deep rough and penal bunkers make it golf's toughest test

There are few, if any, tougher more uncompromising tests than Oakmont Country Club, the home of this week's US Open, writes Iain Carter.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[rulie]

Other stories about Oakmont

Oakmont: A beautiful brute

Plus, Ryan Fox wins RBC...

globalgolfpost.activehosted.com

 

[Imurg]

If it's going to be, and it looks like it might be, a slog-fest of watching the best players in the world hacking out of rough so thick you can find lost tribes in....
I'll skip it.
I don't necessarily want a birdie bonanza but I see nothing wrong with 10 under over 4 rounds being a winning score..

 

[IanM]

I hope to see some sulking and hysterical blubbering!

 

[SatchFan]

I didn't watch any of the Masters and apart from checking the scores I'm even less inclined to watch the Open.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Morikowa will be my main bet.

 

[Pin-seeker]

I don’t see Rory making the weekend.

 

[IanM]

Lowest score wins. Doesn't matter if it's above or below par.

Definitely don't want the usual 20 under, putting contest.

 

[Backache]

Hopefully it will be entertaining, last years was good. I won't be watching Sat /Sunday though as we are away camping.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1932154732396622250

 

[evemccc]

I’m really looking forward to it, having watched bryson’s practice round and the Golf Digest video on Oakmont…I feel like I know the holes a bit already and I’m really looking forward to seeing Major golf that isn’t the usual Sunday pins at Augusta!!

 

[Slab]

I'll be in the UK for this, hoping the hotel has sports in the room but if not it'll be the sports bar a few doors down so at least I'll see a couple of hours each day
Looking forward to it

 

[BrianM]

Looking forward to it.
Hard to look past Bryson and Scottie, Rory seems a mile off it at the moment.
I really like Niemann for a top 5, his all round game is up there at the moment.
Temperament could be key, so that rules out Hatton

 

[Pin-seeker]

Looking forward to it.
Hard to look past Bryson and Scottie, Rory seems a mile off it at the moment.
I really like Niemann for a top 5, his all round game is up there at the moment.
Temperament could be key, so that rules out Hatton

I thought the same
Could that also rule Rahm out?

Justin Rose 125/1 might be worth a e/w bet.

 

[pokerjoke]

Watching Grant Horvat and the Bryan Bros playing there yesterday just shows how tough it’s going to be .
There will definitely be some head explosions.

 

[sunshine]

There's a video on the club's website explaining how they have removed over 13,000 trees from the course over the last 20 years, to return the course to its original design. The trees were all planted in 50s - 70s and by the 90s had grown significantly and changed the characteristics of the course, narrowing playing corridors and negatively impacting the turf quality. It looks so different compared with the US Open course of 1994.

Interesting for me because my course is slowly starting a tree removal programme. It was rolling open parkland for hundreds of years, until loads of trees were planted in the 70s and 80s. Those trees are massive now, they are 40-50 years old, and the older members don't want any to be removed, they refuse to believe the mantra that grass needs light and air to thrive.

 

[timd77]

Watching Grant Horvat and the Bryan Bros playing there yesterday just shows how tough it’s going to be .
There will definitely be some head explosions.

I’ve been watching that too. On one hole, Grant was in the greenside rough, maybe 20 feet from the green. Took him 3 to hit the green!

I do wonder whether the pros will benefit from a lot of the rough being trampled down by the spectators, especially along the fairways, but I’m guessing not around the greens.

Really looking forward to it, hope it’s not on too late. Looks as though it’s in a similar time zone to Augusta, I can just about handle a midnight finish!

 

[evemccc]

There's a video on the club's website explaining how they have removed over 13,000 trees from the course over the last 20 years, to return the course to its original design. The trees were all planted in 50s - 70s and by the 90s had grown significantly and changed the characteristics of the course, narrowing playing corridors and negatively impacting the turf quality. It looks so different compared with the US Open course of 1994.

Interesting for me because my course is slowly starting a tree removal programme. It was rolling open parkland for hundreds of years, until loads of trees were planted in the 70s and 80s. Those trees are massive now, they are 40-50 years old, and the older members don't want any to be removed, they refuse to believe the mantra that grass needs light and air to thrive.

Not going into the rights or wrongs (or otherwise) of your course and tree removal, but surely this mantra is not gospel truth if your trees have been planted 50 years ago, and been fully grown for 30 years….

Or is the grass of your course in a perilous state right now? Cos it’s seemingly survived for 30 odd years

 

[The Squirrel]

If it's going to be, and it looks like it might be, a slog-fest of watching the best players in the world hacking out of rough so thick you can find lost tribes in....
I'll skip it.
I don't necessarily want a birdie bonanza but I see nothing wrong with 10 under over 4 rounds being a winning score..

I actually like it. A birdie is a meaningful event that moves you up through the field rather than just an expected outcome keeping you level with the field.

Sort of like the golf we all play in that way .