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***2025 Oakmont US Open Thread*** (5 Viewers)

BassNBrew said:
I realize there aren't many Bryson fans here, but here's a great video of his practice round at Oakmont. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Szz1bAEsI&t=14s. Should be a fun tourney.
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Love him...I've got my 7yo pivoted from watching stupid Minecraft videos to watching BDC on youtube (and a few others)...happy dad!

Some saying this may be one of the hardest tests of golf ever…I’ll believe when I see it with these guys.
 
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heckmanm said:
As much fun as it can be to see these guys throwing darts from week to week, I do enjoy when the US Open really makes them work for it.

Same for The [British] Open when the weather makes it tough, but those courses seem a little more gettable when the weather is calm.
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+1

Masters - Augusta, tradition, Spring, the beauty of the course, 30 on the back nine Sunday to win
U.S. Open - "par is a good score (no seriously, we mean it)", rough, don't forget to hydrate
British Open - Britain, rain, balls blowing off greens, brown fairways and 3-foot grass
PGA - uh...
 
heckmanm said:
As much fun as it can be to see these guys throwing darts from week to week, I do enjoy when the US Open really makes them work for it.

Same for The [British] Open when the weather makes it tough, but those courses seem a little more gettable when the weather is calm.
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I also like seeing the course tough. I don't like it when they lose the plot though and it becomes unfair. Sometimes the US Open tries so hard to make par a good score that the course is just stupid. When I see guys hit an 8 iron 10 feet from the hole that ends up 45 yards off the green I just shake my head.

I want these championships to determine who's the best golfer in the world that weekend, not who got luckiest.

Oakmont won't be like that though I don't expect. Greens will be fast, but fair, but missing the tiny fairways will be brutal.

The funny part of these long rough courses IMO.... it heavily favors the long hitters. You can hit a gap wedge out of this rough, but not a 7 iron.
 
encaitar said:
The funny part of these long rough courses IMO.... it heavily favors the long hitters. You can hit a gap wedge out of this rough, but not a 7 iron.
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This is generally true, but there's a little more to it than that.

The courses that favor bombers in general are those where either (a) hitting fairways off the tee isn't a matter of skill (either because they're extremely wide and everyone can hit them, or they're extremely narrow / firm and nobody can) or (b) there aren't significant penalties for missed fairways. Courses where both (a) and (b) are true are the real bombers' paradises - Quail Hollow, Kapalua, Valhalla and so on.

Muirfield Village has the longest non-US Open rough on Tour but look through those leaderboards and outside of Scottie, it's all guys like Straka, Henley, Morikawa, Si Woo - some of the most accurate drivers on Earth. Why? Because Nicklaus does a great job penalizing guys for not hitting their spots. Miss 5 yards left and you're in the first cut. Miss 25 yards left and your ball may be wet, or in a 4' deep bunker, or under a 100-year-old oak tree and you're on the express train to Bogeyville.

My concern with Oakmont is the same I had with Winged Foot when Bryson broke it in 2020 ... on these older, tighter Northeast layouts it's impossible to squeeze in 150,000 fans a day without trampling down the rough in between holes. So not only is it not more penalizing to miss the fairway by 30 yards than by 5, in many cases it's less so; instead of hacking out of a 5" deep ryegrass forest, your ball is perched atop a ryegrass carpet. If that comes to pass, then your sentence is 100% accurate and the bombers are going to absolutely roll the field this week. I really hope that's not the case - what Bryson did was less pure golf and more "hacking the course setup" IMO - but we'll have to see.
 
Did any of you watch the "Bloodbath" video from St Andre yet? The rough really is crazy and the fairways look difficult but fair. Putting surface seemed fast but not ridiculous. Could be a fun weekend.
 
Leroy Hoard said:
Outside of someone obvious like Scottie, is there anyone that seems perfect for this week?
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Seeing some of the videos of the rough I'd say anyone who is consistently hitting fairways would have to have a leg up. According to copilot, the top players cross referenced with fairway accuracy looks like:
Collin Morikawa ranked 5th overall, 2nd in fairway accuracy
Sepp Straka ranked 9th overall, 9th in fairway accuracy
Takumi Kanaya ranked 13th overall, 5th in fairway accuracy
Ben Kohles ranked 14th overall, 4th in fairway accuracy
Aaron Rai ranked 16th overall, 1st in fairway accuracy

Notables:
Scottie Scheffler ranked 1st overall, 28th in fairway accuracy
Rory McIlroy ranked 2nd overall, 170th in fairway accuracy
Jon Rahm ranked 4th overall, 161st in fairway accuracy
Xander Schauffele ranked 6st overall, 161st in fairway accuracy
Tommy Fleetwood ranked 8th overall, 35th in fairway accuracy
 
My picks go-to…Matt Vincenzi…took a gig with LIV and is no longer putting out tourney/course stats and picks. He’s been on fire the last 2 years.

Any other guys out there who’ve been good at it?
 
Big time Bryson fan. Wish he'd come back to the real tour.
As far as the course being tough....I like it. It is incredibly boring watching these guys shoot 20+ under for a weekend. Plus, tough means potentially lots of lead changes. Makes for an exciting Sunday
 
supermike80 said:
Big time Bryson fan. Wish he'd come back to the real tour.
As far as the course being tough....I like it. It is incredibly boring watching these guys shoot 20+ under for a weekend. Plus, tough means potentially lots of lead changes. Makes for an exciting Sunday
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I don't think Bryson was ever on the LPGA :shrug:
 
Bryson with new irons this week (same ball). Flatter heel…rounded toe…CG moved towards toe.
 
After a 'Big 4' run of 6 straight majors, this feels like the one to break that streak.
And possibly a 1st timer...Fleetwood, Henley, Straka, Ludvig, Neimann...
 
I just saw a couple clips or Rory trying to get out of the rough. Boy is gonna ride the struggle bus this week. If you're not on the fairway, you're screwed.
 
gump said:
After a 'Big 4' run of 6 straight majors, this feels like the one to break that streak.
And possibly a 1st timer...Fleetwood, Henley, Straka, Ludvig, Neimann...
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Fleetwood, Straka, English, Kim, and a couple canadian long shots are where I'm thinking about some sprinkles
 
Entry 1

Scottie Scheffler - Salary: $11,900
Bryson DeChambeau - Salary: $9,800
Viktor Hovland - Salary: $7,200
Ben Griffin - Salary: $7,100
Corey Conners - Salary: $7,100
Keegan Bradley - Salary: $6,900

Entry 2

Scottie Scheffler - Salary: $11,900
Jon Rahm - Salary: $9,000
Ludvig Aberg - Salary: $7,800
Shane Lowry - Salary: $7,600
Harris English - Salary: $6,900
Ryan Fox - Salary: $6,800
 
my pool is 4 players, $50 cap and 3 guys need to make the cut to have a chance for money:

Golfers
$50.0
Scottie Scheffler
$16.7
Denny McCarthy
$12.0
Davis Riley
$11.0
Thorbjørn Olesen
$10.3
 
The 9th green being attached to the putting green is such a cool thing. I have not played Oakmont, but have played a couple of courses that do this. Especially when it's attached to #18 green, and you might be putting to win a bet and you know all those eyes are staring at you.
 
Nick Taylor's 🇨🇦 2nd shot on #1 (his 10th) was fun to watch. Hacked it out of the rough and it rolled what looks like about 150 yards to within about 4 feet. :lol:
 
General Malaise said:
Cowboysfan8 said:
I’ll say it. This course is kinda boring to watch on TV
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So bland. Looks like a flyover state from the window seat of a budget airline.
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I lived about a half hour away for a couple of years in Butler and got to play there a couple of times. It's a beautiful American classic - it was a privilege to play there and watched the 1994 final round from the bleachers on the 18th green. (Ernie beat Monty and Loren Roberts the next day in an 18 hole playoff ...that went to sudden-death)

Love the older classic courses - have gotten to play Inverness in Toledo a number of times, Canterbury just south of Cleveland and Scioto CC in Columbus. Just beautifully groomed old-school goodness.
 
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