Seventy-two holes of struggle await the eventual 2025 U.S. Open winner as Oakmont Country Club is prepared to bare its teeth for a 156-man field all seeking to claim the national championship. The par-70 course is hosting the USGA's signature tournament and the third major championship of the season for a record 10th time with golfers attempting to transverse its difficult landscape for the first time in nine years.

With rolling hills, fast greens, bunkers pockmarking the course's landscape and mutinous Poa annua grass, there's plenty of reason to believe this year's tourney will be one of the more difficult competitions in recent memory.