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US Open: ‘This course is too tough for me’ – Why Oakmont is so hard for the world’s best golfers

US Open: ‘This course is too tough for me’ – Why Oakmont is so hard for the world’s best golfers


Oakmont, Pennsylvania
CNN
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Scottie Scheffler has been bending courses to his will in 2025. The No. 1 golfer in the world looked unstoppable only two weeks ago at the Memorial Tournament that he won by four strokes at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Ohio.

But the course at Oakmont Country Club outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, isn’t just any course. Oakmont is diabolical.

The rough is deep enough that it covers your shoes. It’s thick enough that the PGA officials tasked with finding wayward shots look like someone trying to find a contact lens in a crowded room. The fairways are pencil-thin and, when you’re lucky enough to find one, they slope toward…

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