WATCH: Oakmont rough just as insane as its greens for the 2016 U.S. Open

Yeah, good luck making up ground at the U.S. Open if you don't keep your ball in the fairway

By Kyle Porter

Jun 12, 2016 at 5:48 pm ET • 1 min read

Oakmont will be fun. If the ludicrous greens don't get you (and they will) then the outrageously thick rough will destroy your will at the U.S. Open next week. Justin Thomas, Bryson DeChambeau and Graeme McDowell are all playing the course on Sunday and all showing off just how long and tough the penal areas of the course are going to play.

Players are going to have trouble finding wayward shots, much less hitting them out and getting them close to USGA-level pins on Oakmont's slippery greens. McDowell let my guy, Associated Press writer Doug Ferguson, try to punch one out (see video below). The result was pretty predictable.

This is how the founders of Oakmont wanted it though. "A shot poorly played should be a shot irrevocably lost," said William Clark Fownes Jr. Mission accomplished, Mr. Fownes.

Golf writer @dougferguson405 gives a short game lesson on the 17th at Oakmont.... pic.twitter.com/DsBaYbfSu2
— Graeme McDowell (@Graeme_McDowell) June 12, 2016

Rough short of 17 green... Yeah, I'd say Oakmont is ready 😳 @usopengolf
A video posted by Justin Thomas (@justinthomas34) on Jun 12, 2016 at 1:44pm PDT