Photos of Oakmont Country Club. Photos and text by Christopher Hunt.

"The back nine begins with an intermediate length par-4 at 462 yards for the pros. The tenth and the first sandwich the ninth, and both play toward the turnpike gorge. Also like the first, the tenth putting green slopes away from the player, making it all the more important to find the narrow fairway off the tee and get some spin on the approach shot. The extremely wayward have three ditches to avoid on the hole outside the spread of bunkering."