Claire Rogers
From the articles in the interviews to the content of the players on Instagram, the media members are booked and busy during the big weeks.
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Oakmont, without. – Greetings friends and welcome to the latest edition of Rogers report! I am writing to you from inside the media center to We open And I am pleased to share with you everything I received a new pair of glasses after I have fallen mine in Oakmont Approximate at No. 18 at one point on Monday afternoon.
It has been a great start of the week so far, and I did something Wednesday morning that I didn’t expect: I fully liked the press conference.
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– Claire Rogers (@kclairerogers) June 12 2025
USGA press conference
I was initially not planning to attend the USGA press conference Wednesday morning at Oakmont. I wanted to go walk some holes before lunch, but when Bob Harig of Sports Illustrated asked me to go to the interview area with him, so I decided to go. And I’m really happy to make, because it made me very excited about starting the game in Oakmont.
At the time when Wednesday is rotating in large championships, there is often a sense of concern. We’ve been here for three days, let’s take the show on the road already! But what Mike Whan, Fred Perpall and John Bodenhamer said about the championship on Wednesday morning encouraged me to slow down and enjoy every moment of this week, even if I felt a little eager to start the game.
So what exactly does it do We open So special? Let’s take a look.
- It is the longest professional tournament of professional golf in America. The first was played in 1895 at the Newport Country Club (shout in my beautiful Rhode Island’s state) and the winner won $ 150.
- Sunday of the championship always falls Father’s day.
- Truly really a “open” championship: the first year, was 11 entrances trying to make it in 1895. This year, 10,200 players tried to qualify for Oakmont.
- 1,385 players have played in a big championship in Oakmont. Only 27 of them ended up under all four after four rounds. That’s only two percent! The last time US Open was in Oakmont, Dustin Johnson won in four under the money. The time before that? Angel Cabrera won in five excessive paragraph
- Their mantra is “tough but straight”. They want players to “get every club in the bag of a polluted player. All 15 of them. 14 in their bag and that among their ears.”
Whan, pronoun and Bodenhamer were not afraid to answer the difficult questions during their press conference. Wan explained the driver’s test, a process that has always confused me perfectly.
The same as the return debate. I will admit that I have not really known what to do all things. The explanation of the WAN and it really helped me to understand (for the first time) how complicated it is to be those who call them shots.
Whan: “Its reality is governance is difficult. I knew when I got here, but it is difficult. These other stakeholders are my friends and they are passionate about the future of the game just like us, and I get it. What comes from anxiety is every time I open my computer and read 100 emails, 50 people say” No one says ‘I think it’s exactly right’. This is the difficult part about governance, you are trying to find the right – even for Alex’s view, I sat at Jack’s table last Wednesday with the other government, with other players of the game, and heard many truly talented leaders of our game, they say ‘this is not enough’, and with people sitting by me ‘. So I think they probably have to see the world of government.
Powerful message about returning the golf ball from @Usga President Fred in front of today.
The further the ball goes, the more time it takes and the more it costs to build and maintain golf courses. Pic.twitter.com/nohocDrvzt
– Andy Johnson (@andytfe) June 11, 2025
So thanks for the USGA press conference that made me think of these issues! And thanks for Bob Harig, who is the only reason I ended up following this oppressor Wednesday morning.
Conversation with other media members
As I was moving on Twitter (Ahem, X) I encountered a post asking what I do when I am in golf tournaments. I’m not sure whether it was a gloomy remark or not, but it made me think about how many moving parts there are in the golf media.
Great Q! I write an article from Sit every day, I’m part of the Wain & Heard video franchise for Golf, I’m the director of social interviews & also a movie called The Scoop. Today I was told about a new reporter about Oakmont with USA which was an explosion. https://t.co/wipdiqkVQ1
– Claire Rogers (@kclairerogers) June 10, 2025
There are several hundred media sites at the Oakmont media center this week, and everyone is working on something completely different. There are endless scenes in golf tours. You have people who write about course conditions. Others are focused on the device. Someone will write a profile on a specific player. The story story is always covered as well.
Player press conferences offer endless opportunities for scenarios, and then you have people on the contents. You have people who make video hype for players’ social channels, videographers capturing the base crew, interviewers preparing to ask questions and more. I asked the various media members to share what their day looked on Wednesday, and there was so much, so much in their answers.
There is really something about any kind of golf fan there. Many people see the final product when it comes to articles, videos and social posts, but media centers in large championships allow those who have credentials to get an understanding of the depth of content that comes out of tours like US Open.
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Claire Rogers
Golfit.com editor

