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Fifty -two years ago this month, Johnny Miller played 18 holes in Oakmont country club in 63 strokes. His triumphant Sunday in ’73 US Open set a record of the championship with a round that would stay for half a century (in 2023 US Open, Rickie Fowler and Xander schauuffle Both posted in the first round 62s). She also stayed strictly from the field. Only four other players broke down that day that day, which is equal for the Oakmont course, where the average note opens in nine US (this week marks the 10th turn of the club as host of the tournament) is a +4.63 per round.

Translate those numbers into English, and they read this: Oakmont is a bear, guaranteed to give the best in the world everything it can handle. But how to put its challenge in Layperson’s perspective? USA has a digital This uses your handicap index and course data to generate a “target result” in each of its championship countries. According to this online calculator, the “target result” for a 15-hour Oakmont would be 98.

However, a “target result” is defined as what you would shoot if you were to play in your handicap, something players manage only at 15 to 20 percent of their efforts. Would what would the rest of the time happen? For additional knowledge, we ask the question three of our traveler’s course panelists. If a 15-day was to take Oakmont in open conditions in the US, playing strictly by the rules of wedge-wedge, without gimma-which would be the ultimate damage? Here’s what they said.

Tom Brown: Sounds harsh, but I will be optimistic and I will say 115. I count five holes that require at least a 250 -yard transport from Tees of the championship. The average male golf with a handicap 15 runs the ball approximately 215 to 230 yards. Not making the road is defeated, and the other purpose is unlikely to remove one’s souls. The main difference between the daily game in Oakmont (which is already challenging) and the open US is the rough length. Little 15-Handicaps will have the experience of returning to good track.

I am assuming beautiful weather for 115. If the rough is wet, it is even more challenging for the average amateur as the ball sits even more. Conventional wisdom says the Oakmont may have the most difficult greens in the world. The locations of the daily holes are very difficult, but the bank in several three and four-strokes with places with open American holes. below The world handicap system Applied by USA and R&A, the maximum hole result a player can post for handicap purposes is net. The double double average enters 106. But since we are counting everything, I am counting on a higher final finish.

Ran Morrissett: Many would have to go fair For a handicap 15 to break 120 in Oakmont. First, it has the length, with seven par-4s over 450 yards, two par-5s over 600 yards-and don’t start me at par-3 8 in 289 yards. Second, rough, the likes of which will stimulate a 15-day in all kinds of ways. I don’t know how a golf player with double handicaps can progress the ball more than 100-115 yards, and many times they would not do. Frameable healing efforts are appropriate to go 5 or 10 yards, if this. And after the player begins to run their shooting to avoid rough, they will begin to lose the fairway after the road.

Then, there are 200-strange bunkers, which may or may not be lighter than rough. If they were to go to Pews of the Church, would they have the discipline to go aside and take their medicine with a stroke? I ask because most 15-Handicaps Do not excel in course management.

Finally, there are greens, which I have trouble seeing a 15-Handicapper invader in less than 45 strokes (and 2.5 strokes on average can be generous). The rhythm and slope will destroy the delicate psyche of 99 percent of all players. How does your brain react to see a five-foot discount stroke on the 1st green turn on a 10-foot return? And it just happened in the 1st green – you have 17 others to go. As your faith erodes, all sorts of horror scenarios will unfold.

This is the complex effect on Oakmont: Once the course exposes whatever your weakness, it will be mercilessly pierced for occasionally again. Remember: Oakmont was built to be difficult and that’s what it is. If there is a more challenging course every day I haven’t played it.

Brian Curley: With the controlled course, even a direct, well -struck stroke, there may be trouble finding the right path. Entries to Oakmont are like magnets, and the streets of the fair are to them, often severe. And finding the right roads is the least of your concerns. The course is ruthless and narrow and offers little on the way of salvation.

My first meeting with Oakmont was during a walk with American Golf Course Architects, where I started at nine backs, lost Green from some club length and went to chip, chip, three-putt. The greens are beyond the imagination. Disappointment would only build the hole from the hole, and there is no breath to bring you back to the right track. I would think that our 15 things would make Pars zero, and maybe some lucky doubles. Mandatory “others” would prevail. This puts them in 100, light, and they still have some holes.

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