Should you say the phrase “Oakmont” to a gaggle of golf followers, its problem will instantly enter the room. The Pittsburgh-area course is famend as one of many hardest in the US, and has appropriately performed host to a file 10 U.S. Opens together with three PGA Championships.
On Sunday, followers have been left to marvel because the U.S. Open’s leaders—Sam Burns of the US, Adam Scott and Australia, and American J.J. Spaun—scratched and clawed throughout Oakmont’s unforgiving terrain. Among the many tv viewers feeling a way of futility watching the occasion was Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark.
“Is Oakmont even enjoyable to play?” Clark, an avid golfer, asked on social media Sunday afternoon with a sequence of cry-laughing emojis. “I might shoot 130 simply.”
Clark has performed in a trio of current golf pro-ams: the John Deere Basic in Illinois in 2023, the ANNIKA in Florida in 2024, and the RSM Basic in Georgia in ’24.
She appears to know her limitations, nevertheless, and can depart Oakmont to its struggling band of pros.
