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With 15,000 Fewer Trees, Oakmont Is Now Ready for Another U.S. Open

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A former club president, known as Old Chainsaw, started the process in 1994 under cover of darkness. It transformed play.

The sun rises over a golf course that has a sandy area filled with 13 evenly spaced grassy mounds that resemble benches.
Bunkers known as the Church Pews between the third and fourth holes at Oakmont Country Club, near Pittsburgh. The course once had hundreds of bunkers — and thousands more trees.

June 11, 2025, 12:19 p.m. ET

Standing on the back porch at Oakmont Country Club, site of the U.