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Oakmont Country Club room
Keith E. Morrison
Oakmont Country Club is dripping with golf history. I inserted in every corner and madness of US Open the anchor pageand the host of 2025 publicationIt is a relic, memory or response at a memorable moment in the Loren of the sport.
But Oakmont’s story goes beyond the famous Johnny Miller and Duel “Change of Guard” between Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.
Oakmont Country Club is also home to the most delightful game of money in Golf, known as SWAT.
“Member’s game is known as SWAT,” said club historian and archivist David Moore. “It dates back to the wc fowns and the establishment of the club. It is played every week and at every holiday.”
SWAT is played every Wednesday, Friday, weekends and holidays. The Oakmont Country Club has a detailed record of each SWAT game dating back from 1955. These records are handwritten after each match and stored in the SWAT men’s room. Yeardo year has its own book SWAT, which is stored in a case in the SWAT room. Members arrive and give their teams, they go out and play and then return to the SWAT room to commission and record the game of the day.
So what is there in these records strictly held?
- How much money were exchanged
- How many points are earned
- teams
Visitors are also allowed to play in SWAT. Some Pro played in SWAT a week before US Open, including Arnold Palmer and Julius Boros, who played in a 1973 SWAT a week before they were co-drivers with 54 holes in the 1973 US Open.
But what is a swat? The game is usually a $ 10 Nassau, with payments for nine money, nine back and total. Players come to teams with four players with players A, B, C and D. The player is the best player and the D player is the worst. The players’ results have been recorded, and the groups have been reorganized based on their performance to keep the game straight and balanced.
To learn more about Oakmont’s SWAT room, watch the video below starting at the 11:07 sign.
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