Oakmont, PA. – The main character in the 125th US Open is not one of the players, but the course itself.
When World No. 1 is the choice of Scotty Sheffeler and Defending Champion Bryson Decombo, to some extent, the most difficult courses they will play anytime, people sit and pay attention.
The Omont Country Club will test the patience of the best professionals and amateur in golf when it will host its record-expansion 10 US Open starting on Thursday.
“It’s not that every hole is a winged foot here,” said Dacombo, which won its first US Open in 2020, which was before pursuing Rory McLero in Pineharst No. 2 last year. “You can’t bomb it on each hole and explode on the bunkers and run a wedge to the green in front of the green.
“I think you should just be more strategic with this golf course, especially with being thick.
Live Golf is a win in Korea and a top-five finish in Live Golf Virginia, decombo is fine. So Scheffler is the winner of PGA Championship and Memorial Tournament.
Even the best golfer in the world thinks of someone in Okmont, which is grown in the last five -inch length.
“When you remember the green color in the masters, the ball runs away and it goes into these areas, and you can play a collision, you can play a flop. There are different -different options,” the sheffer said. “Here, when you hit the ball above the green, you just meet in some heavy rough, and this is, ‘Let me see how I can pop the ball with this rough and somehow give myself a look.”
USGA Commissioner Mike Van said on Wednesday that 1,385 golfers have played a major in Okmont, and a total of 27 is a grand total.
It includes Dustin Johnson, who is the most recent winner here, when he shot under 4 in 2016. Three players finished second in 1 under. Another Omont champion includes South Africa’s Erny Els, Johnny Miller, Jack Nickens and Ben Hogan.
Given the position of a rough other fast -moving greens, it is a bad time to struggle with T, yet the place where McLero finds itself.
World No. 2 of Northern Ireland revealed that he gave 81 cards on a scouting journey of Omont last week. His driver failed to a conformity test in the PGA Championship – as of a chefler – essentially because his age had made his face very spring.
Mcilroy used a backup driver in PGA and tried a new model for destructive results in the RBC Canadian Open, cutting 9 overs. He is back in an old model this week and has an external impact on his overall game.
“This was not a big deal for Scoty (in PGA), so it should not have been a big thing for me,” said McClayoy.
Fifteen Amateur is in the ground, and among them is Star Matt Vogt, which is Omont Caddy, now a dentist in Indianapolis. Vogt called it a “pipe dream” to make it.
“The old caddy used to be just like the shake range, where the new range is here. I don’t think it is anymore.” “… Yes, I am proud to represent the caddy yard this week, no matter how things go on.”
The oldest player in the ground is 17 -year -old Mason Hell, while the oldest Phil is Mikelson, who has reached the end of a five -year discount to win the 2021 PGA championship. Mikelson, which took place on 55 Monday, remains shy US Open Slam of the Grand Slam of Career.
Mikelson admitted last week, “There is a high probability that it (its last US Open), but I really did not think too much about it.”
The men’s golf has not seen the major champion for the first time since 2023. Spain’s John Rahm, Colin Moricawa, Gender Shoffel, Justin Thomas and Decombo are all bound by two titles, leaving Thomas’s first PGA Championship in this decade.
“This is a challenge,” Rahm said, which was less an amateur in Omont in 2016. “A lot of unfortunate things are going to happen. It is a difficult fairways to hit, bad lies, hard bunkers, hard grins. It’s going to be a good test, a hard test.
-Adam Zillonka, Field Level Media
