Local knowledge comes in handy in most courses, and Oakmont is no exception. But on this year’s U.S. Open Host Website, the value of internal information goes beyond the green and other corners of the fairway. For example, considering the locker room, there are many interesting facts in history.
Here are six dressing room-related details that create good stories around the bar, and a great video that you can watch above or below on YouTube.
Wine storage cabinet
Oakmont was born as the most authentic country club, a country retreat with members arriving largely by train, dragging their luggage for an extended trip. Oakmont’s lockers are one of the largest in any club in the country and are designed to accommodate extra luggage. The extra space is especially useful when the club builds storage cabinets inside the locker. The storage of these discrete storage remains a feature in every locker in the club today.
golf
Champion locker
Every U.S. Open champion crowned by Oakmont has received honors in the club’s lockers shared with members. Those past champions include Ben Hogan, whose name is printed on a small metal plaque on Locker No. 12. Unlike other champion lockers, this is the actual locker that Hogan used when he won the U.S. Open in 1953. Apart from being a sweet orgy, Hogan is superstitious and sticks with the same locker every time he returns.
Unrepaired spike mark
Since the club opened, legendary player markers with spike markers have been on wooden benches in the men’s locker room, players have changed their shoes in Oakmont, from Bobby Jones and Hogan to Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. We’ll add Scottie Scheffler to that list, but today’s soft kicks don’t leave any imprints like Old Metal Spiked footwear.
; "6 Fun facts about the legendary locker room of Oakmont 1")
golf
(literally) Cool women’s locker room
Oakmont has been popular with women since the beginning. Their lockers are the same specifications as the man, with a hint of wood and metal lattice for ventilation. But the women’s locker room has a cool feature on its own, and the lack of male space: it’s air-conditioned. The men’s locker room is not, according to a club representative, probably never. Perhaps this only applies to membership, which prides itself on taking one of the toughest courses in the world. To some extent, these guys are masochist.
It has boundaries
Cell phones are allowed in the locker room. But if you call, politely ask you to hide it in one of the two phone booths, the often preserved ruins of the past, they still have actual phones with attachments attached to them, get this rope.
