U.S. Open 2025: Justin Thomas chimes in on ‘questionable’ course conditions

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Justin Thomas missed the cut at the 125th U.S. Open, but he still made it out to the Oakmont range on Saturday to get some work in. On Sunday, though, he found himself in a similar position as the rest of us – tweeting from the couch.

And like everybody else on Golf Twitter, JT had some takes. “After (kind of) playing it for two days, and watching over the weekend… it’s hard to express how difficult/borderline impossible Oakmont would be if it was firm,” Thomas wrote. “Not even rock hard, but just the slightest bit of firmness in the greens would make it (insert head exploding emoji).”

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Mother nature had other plans for Oakmont, particularly on the weekend. It poured on Friday evening, stopping play, and then rained a bit more during the day on Saturday, softening up the course considerably. On Sunday, after the final group reached the eighth tee, it began to come down again, once again stopping play, this time for over 90 minutes in the middle of a tense final round. 

Play resumed at 5:40 p.m. on an extremely wet course, and chaos began to ensue. Bogeys and double bogeys started piling up, causing some to wonder if they should still be playing golf. Among them was Thomas:

Naturally, the haters came for the two-time PGA champion’s throat. Cries of “soft” began rolling in. One of his followers asked a legitimate question, though. Just how unplayable has the deluge made an already impossibly hard golf course to play, on the back nine of a U.S. Open Sunday, no less?

Play on, they will. Whoever does end up holding the trophy, should play finish on Sunday evening, will have earned it through a war of attrition that will be remembered for ages. 

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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com