“Oakmont doesn’t have as many vegetables, there aren’t 18 rolling, swinging pool tables.” Sports Illustrated Curry Kirkpatrick once wrote it. “A golfer claimed he marked the ball with nickel and the nickel slipped off the green.”
Oakmont's Green Party will run at 125 next weekTh Are we open? USGA announced green speeds will run between 14 feet, 5 inches and 14 feet (9 inches) on the stimulator.
In other words, don't mark the balls with nickel.
Lee Trevino is known for past USGA President Jim Hand as a course where you can kick out of the United States tomorrow and draw on that sentiment with an important appendix. "You have to slow down the green. You can't play the course like the members. Man, these members are crazy."
Trevino was unhappy to hear that USGA had been adding them significantly since his time. David Barrett wrote in his 2006 U.S. Open Golf Course that USGA likes to keep green at around 11 or 11 1/2 thrilling speeds. “For the members’ matches, however, Oakmont members like to make them about 13 years old. “The members here reported to Barrett in the 1990s that this was an experienced caddie, “wish to see their guests cry.”
Many people have steep slopes, including numbers that tilt from front to back. Others wrote that there were enough swales and ridges to "make the player serve."
WC Fownes, the son of the founder of Oakmont and the son of the 1910 American amateur champion, will stand behind the second green and drop the ball. If it didn't roll down the green front all the way down the slope, he would tell his principal to speed things up.
Among those who over-convene the club at the rate of vegetable, architect Tom Doak is known. He wrote in his book The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses , he said: “It has all the charm of a SS commander, like the way it is set for a tournament.”
He added: "I'm also disappointed that the club valued over-speed vegetables; without it, their profile would be interesting, but their focus on speed also led to over-over-the-top other classes."
The fastest green in golf? Get ready to listen to Oakmont's glass surface during the 125th U.S. Open. If you have nickel every time you mention nickel, you have a lot of nickel. But just don't mark a ball on the slope vegetables in Oakmont.