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The USGA has upped the ante for gamers at next week’s U.S. Open at Oakmont, with thick, juicy tough and exceptionally fast greens set to check the mettle of golf’s most interesting.

Known for its punishing situations, the U.S. Open is set to push opponents to their limits with ice-rink-like greens and dense tough. The problem intensifies this yr at Oakmont, where the one hundred and twenty fifth U.S. Open will tee off on Thursday.

Oakmont, the Pennsylvania course that led to the invention of the stimpmeter 90 years in the past, is no stranger to fast greens. While the PGA Tour average pace on the stimpmeter ranges from 10-12, U.S. Open greens typically exceed a pace of 13.0.

Next week, however, the greens at Oakmont are anticipated to be even slicker, with Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis reporting that the USGA goals for them to run between 14.5 and 14.9.

To compound the problem, the tough at Oakmont is described as “dense and uniformed at five inches,” guaranteeing that any inaccuracy can be severely penalized.

Golf stars Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau have already visited Pittsburgh just lately to acquaint themselves with Oakmont’s infamous format, where Angel Cabrera’s 2007 victory at five-over-par speaks volumes about the toughness of the course.

U.S. Open titleholder DeChambeau captured his follow spherical woes in a video for his YouTube channel, highlighting the intense tough situations.

As he encountered the dense tough alongside the fairways and greens, DeChambeau exclaimed, “Oh my gosh,” upon glimpsing a hint of his ball in what he described as a thicket. “That is cooked beyond belief. That’s more than half-baked there. It’s burnt to a crisp. Oh my gosh.”

Despite the daunting problem, the LIV Golf participant demonstrated his formidable short-game abilities by lifting the ball onto the inexperienced, although going through a distant attempt at par.

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Despite the daunting problem, the LIV Golf participant demonstrated his formidable short-game abilities by lifting the ball onto the inexperienced, although going through a distant attempt at par.

DeChambeau did not maintain back on explaining how powerful the shot was to his followers: “I’ve got nothing. That’s what Oakmont does to you. That’s some thick rough. This place ate my lunch today. Glad to get a little practice round in. The history of this place is amazing and what an honor to play.”

Over at Oakmont, McIlroy spent Monday getting acquainted with the notoriously difficult course, sharing his struggles with Golf Channel’s Eamon Lynch. Lynch reported during U.S. Open last qualifying protection that McIlroy racked up a triple bogey on the par-four second gap, despite executing “three good shots.”

The famend slugger needed to pull out a 3-wood for the formidable 298-yard par-three eighth, ending up with a bowey—a scenario where McIlroy seemingly hasn’t had to wield so a lot membership on a par-three since his youth.