WEEKEND HACKERS?

Defending US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy shot “in the mid-80s” and lost seven balls. Is Oakmont about to reduce the world’s best players to weekend hackers, asks Simon Lewis in Pittsburgh.

W RIST-BREAKING rough, par-three holes that need a driver off the tee and the scariest greens in golf.

Whichever way you look at it, the world’s best golfers believe Oakmont is going to be one of the toughest tests ever encountered at a US Open Championship. There have been many changes to the famous Henry Clay Fownes layout at the Pennsylvania country club since Ernie Els defeated Loren Roberts and Colin Montgomerie in a play-off to win the last US Open at Oakmont in 1994.