At Oakmont Country Club, host of 2025 US Open, some of the signs of Arnold Palmer points have never been repaired. Nor have there been many traces of legends ranging from Ben Hogan to Tiger Woods. Embedded in the wooden benches of the men’s closet room, the double signs as memories of the innumerable greats who have exchanged their shoes inside a club as historic as the course itself.
Like the famous appearance she overlooks, the green and white green building was completed in 1904. Designed by prominent Pittsburgh Architect Edward Stotz, it was intended to resemble a underrated Scottish farm. Henry C. Fowns, the steel magnate who founded the Oakmont after falling for the game in its classic form, would not want it in any other way.
In the Century-Plus since then, some features of the building have been updated. But to weave the corridors, dressed in excellent trophies, photos toned by Sepia and other memorandums of the 20 national championships that Oakmont has staged, is to travel again. A portrait of fowns hangs on the Grand Ballroom. Imaging the image of a man who would be pleased to know that his favorite hanging has gone mostly unchanged.
Prior to this open month of this month – the 125th play of the event and the 10th time held in Oakmont –Golf.com Visited every corner and madness of the club with club historian David Moore. The video above, which you can see exclusively as an inward member, tells the story of Oakmont, past and current, in detail, in detail as indelible as the points of giants made to compete.
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