CTG US OPEN CONTEST --150.00 IN CASH PRIZES
I am excited for this US Open. We have a classic golf course that will chew a few of these guys up. We shall see if the rough is just SM echo chamber or something of reality.
Last three winners @ Oakmont
Angel in 2007
Dustin in 2016
Ernie in 1994
8 of the last 9 Oakmont US Open winners have won multiple majors in their career.
Creating a winning golfer profile here shouldn't be too hard IMO
The quick history of inland links to trees and back to original form...
Oakmont was initially planned as an “inland links.” Trees were not an issue during its first half century. But that changed following stinging criticism of the course in 1953 by respected golf writer Herbert Warren Wind. He termed Oakmont an “ugly old brute of a course.” The judgment resonated with the members, who then embarked on an aggressive tree planting program for the next three decades, to the point where, by the 1994 U.S. Open, Oakmont was densely tree-lined, with each hole encased in its narrow corridor of leafy canopies.
That started to change in the late 1990s, with the maintenance crew selectively peeling back trees in the earliest of morning, before anyone would notice. A decade and a half later the process accelerated so that by the 2016 U.S. Open, Oakmont was back to its original look: nearly treeless, except for one specimen American Elm on the far side of the golf course.
I am excited for this US Open. We have a classic golf course that will chew a few of these guys up. We shall see if the rough is just SM echo chamber or something of reality.
Last three winners @ Oakmont
Angel in 2007
Dustin in 2016
Ernie in 1994
8 of the last 9 Oakmont US Open winners have won multiple majors in their career.
Creating a winning golfer profile here shouldn't be too hard IMO
The quick history of inland links to trees and back to original form...
Oakmont was initially planned as an “inland links.” Trees were not an issue during its first half century. But that changed following stinging criticism of the course in 1953 by respected golf writer Herbert Warren Wind. He termed Oakmont an “ugly old brute of a course.” The judgment resonated with the members, who then embarked on an aggressive tree planting program for the next three decades, to the point where, by the 1994 U.S. Open, Oakmont was densely tree-lined, with each hole encased in its narrow corridor of leafy canopies.
That started to change in the late 1990s, with the maintenance crew selectively peeling back trees in the earliest of morning, before anyone would notice. A decade and a half later the process accelerated so that by the 2016 U.S. Open, Oakmont was back to its original look: nearly treeless, except for one specimen American Elm on the far side of the golf course.
