Highlights from historic Oakmont Country Club, home of the 2025 U.S. Open, golf's third major tournament of the year.

If the U.S. Open is the most difficult golf tournament of the year, the implication is that it’s also the most miserable. By the simplest logic: making birdies is more fun than making double bogeys, and the U.

All across Oakmont, there were plenty of tales from the rough. The U.S. Open came to what might be its toughest venue and players faced difficult lies in the 5-inch rough and lots of chances to hack and pray.

Spaun has one Tour win to his name (back at the 2022 Valero Texas Open), and he's competing in his first ever U.S. Open. Today was his first ever bogey-free round in a major, and just the second bogey-free round at a U.S. Open held at Oakmont.

On Wednesday at Oakmont, a fan captured footage of Mickelson just beyond the fringe of one of the 2025 U.S. Open venue’s tight, tricky greens. Mickelson dropped several balls in the Internet famous rough and was working on a few delicate pitch-and-runs. Unfortunately, the devil’s lettuce had other plans. Watch it and wince.

Three days after taking a 45-minute scolding from short-game coach Pete Cowen, five-time major winner Brooks Koepka finds himself back in major title contention at the US Open.Koepka works with Englishman Cowen on his short game and with coach Jeff Pierce on his putting.

Koepka's mood should be better if he can produce three more rounds like this. He shot a 2-under 68 at Oakmont, which left him in a tie for third, two strokes behind leader J.J. Spaun. Koepka made a 42-foot putt for eagle on the par-5 fourth, and after falling back to even par, he finished with birdies on Nos. 17 and 18.

Golf course architect Gil Hanse explains the different features and challenges of each hole on the back 9 at Oakmont Country Club from a bird's eye view.