“I played Oakmont the last two days. It truly is, I think, the hardest golf course we’ve ever played,” Mickelson told reporters in Memphis ahead of the FedEX St. Jude Classic.
“They let the rough grow long – if it’s wet they’ll leave it like that, if it’s dry they’ll thin it out because less balls will hit the fairway.”
Oakmont is known as a stern test that balloons scores.
The last time it hosted a U.S. Open in 2007, Argentine Angel Cabrera won with a five-over total of 285. Mickelson, 45, will bid for his maiden U.S. Open trophy after finishing runner-up six times. “A lot of golf courses, when it challenges you tee to green the way Oakmont does, it usually has a little bit of a reprieve on the greens,” Mickelson said.
“(But) you really don’t at Oakmont, they are some of the most undulating, fast, difficult greens to putt.”
(Writing by Jahmal Corner; Editing by Ian Ransom)
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