Quotes From Notable Golfers
- USGA Sr. Director of Rules and Competitions Mike Davis: "There's a reason coming back to Oakmont. This really is the gold standard for championship golf. It doesn't get any better than Oakmont."
- Lee Trevino: “There's only one course in the country where you could step out right now — right now — and play the U.S. Open, and that's Oakmont.”
- Phil Mickelson: "It's really a neat, special place."
- Johnny Miller: "It's probably the best course in the world . . . This is the greatest course I've ever played."
On Oakmont's greens:
- Tiger Woods:"That golf course is going to be one of the toughest tests that we've ever played in a U.S. Open, especially if it's dry, it will be unreal because those greens are so severe."
- Arnold Palmer: "You can hit 72 greens in the Open at Oakmont and not come close to winning."
- Rocco Mediate said of the greens that they are "almost impossible"
- Sam Snead once commented that he tried to mark his ball on one of Oakmont's greens but the coin slid off.
- Lee Trevino claimed every time he two-putted at Oakmont he knew he was passing somebody on the leader board.
- Johnny Miller said that Oakmont's are the greatest set of greens for testing a player's ability to putt.
- USGA Sr. Director Mike Davis: " scariest in golf."
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