Oakmont Country Club

Oakmont, Pennsylvania

Henry Fownes design near Pittsburgh — the U.S. Open’s most frequent single-course host.

Architect: Henry Fownes
Opened: 1903
Access: private
Host events (high level): U.S. Open (1927, 1935, 1953, 1962, 1973, 1983, 1994, 2007, 2016) · PGA Championship (1922, 1951, 1978)

Why this course matters

Oakmont is the brutal precision benchmark: lightning greens, Church Pews, and a USGA story built on repetition — the same venue returning for Open after Open.

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Most U.S. Opens hosted by a single course

Oakmont Country Club has hosted the U.S. Open a record number of times — including the 2025 championship listed on the USGA’s official U.S. Open site as Oakmont’s 10th U.S. Open.

Venue-level “most majors at one course” framing is exactly the kind of official, course-first fact this lab is meant to surface.

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U.S. Open winners at Oakmont (examples)

Oakmont’s U.S. Open roll call includes many historic champions — e.g. Johnny Miller’s final-round 63 in 1973 and Dustin Johnson’s win in 2016, among others documented in USGA materials.

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Why is Oakmont considered so difficult?

Fast, sloping greens, deep bunkers (including the Church Pews complex), and minimal recovery when out of position — the USGA’s Oakmont championship pages emphasize the course’s penal setup.

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