Exploring Oakmont’s Challenge in the 2025 U.S. Open

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00:00The USGA takes a great amount of pride in making the US Open the toughest test in golf.

00:07We have seen the length of the rough.

00:09We have seen golf fighters drop a golf ball in the rough and see it disappear.

00:14We have heard from the players themselves.

00:16Call Oakmont right now, more than likely, the hardest golf course in the world.

00:22Just how difficult of a test will Oakmont provide at the 2025 United States Open?

00:27As difficult as it's going to get.

00:31I mean, this is a perfect marriage between the USGA and the Oakmont membership because they both just love carnage.

00:38And that's why we've come here for the 10th time.

00:40There have been nine previous US Opens here.

00:42Over 1,300 participants overall have played in a national championship here.

00:47And less than 2% have ever finished the tournament under par.

00:51The place just absolutely annihilates people.

00:54It's a par 70, 7,300-yard track that's got 168 bunkers.

01:00I mean, as if 167 weren't enough.

01:03They're probably adding one right now.

01:05The rough, it is so severe.

01:07I mean, if it was three inches long, it's so dense and thick.

01:09I mean, these guys out here in Pittsburgh, we know this in New York, we've had a ton of rain this past May.

01:15They've had 13 inches of rain in the last 10 weeks here.

01:18The place is, I joked in the opening, it's Sokmont.

01:21It is absolutely so wet in this long grass and everything.

01:25It's thick.

01:26It's dense.

01:26It's, and the playing surfaces are absolutely perfect.

01:30The fairways, the greens, and the greens themselves, the average green size is over 8,500 square feet.

01:37There's so many little tests to this place over the course of 18 holes, over 72 holes.

01:42Just to shoot even par will probably make you the national champion.