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Oakmont's tough love won't be kind to these seven

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

OAKMONT, Pa. -- Walked the Oakmont Country Club course Wednesday. Learned what a high-class penal colony looks like. It looks like 7,230 yards of short grass -- including a 288-yard par-3 and a 667-yard par-5 -- surrounded by fields of wrist-spraining rough. (See: Mickelson, Phil.) It looks like acres of sand -- 210 bunkers in all -- nestled into prime locations for devouring golf balls. It looks like greens so fast they've replaced the Stimpmeter with a radar gun, trying to clock put ...

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