Brandel Chamblee does not like one change Oakmont has made which Jack Nicklaus and Scottie Scheffler are also against

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Oakmont is expected to give the best players in the world all sorts of problems at the US Open next week.

Jack Nicklaus won the US Open at Oakmont in 1962, and Scottie Scheffler will be looking to do the same thing 63 years later.

Nicklaus is the greatest to have ever played the game, while Scheffler is the most dominant force in golf right now.

Scheffler actually held the clubhouse lead at Oakmont way back in 2016 during day one at the US Open.

The 28-year-old world number one is renowned for playing extremely difficult golf courses very well, just like the Golden Bear was in his prime.

However, both of them appear to be on the same page regarding one specific change that has been made at Oakmont.

Jack Nicklaus and Scottie Scheffler do not like change Oakmont has made

Brandel Chamblee was speaking on his podcast The Favorite Chamblee about the upcoming US Open.

It is common knowledge that Oakmont is set to be one of the most stringent tests of golf ever seen.

Chamblee opened up on a big change that Oakmont has made heading into the US Open, and he really doesn’t like it.

He said, “It’s not just Oakmont per se. By the way I am going to say it’s hugely unpopular with a lot of great professional golfers. It is probably popular with some recreational golfers and it’s so in vogue in golf course architecture to cut down all the trees.

“But I have just seen a video of Scottie Scheffler saying that he hates the idea. Jack Nicklaus hates the idea. Because number one in the United States we do parkland golf course and trees and beautiful. They provide shade and frame holes and they hold the best players in the world accountable, even when they drive it in the rough.

“But architects will make the argument we are returning the golf course to its past glory when there were no trees.

“I’m like well they didn’t design golf courses where they were no trees and it’s better. I mean everyone loves links courses and that is certainly a feature of links courses but it was more the path of least resistance.

“Trees had been cut down for homes. 120 years ago it was far harder to remove the trees and the stumps to build a golf course. They still did it from time to time.

“Pine Valley has loads of trees, why would you take the trees down? Pine Valley is the number one course in the world and there’s trees everywhere.

“It was more the path of least resistance so when they look and use historical photos and say this is what the golf course looked like 120 years ago. It was like well the trees, it wasn’t that was the most ideal place it was just the path of least resistance.

“In fairness when they played there in 2016 the trees had been removed. It just doesn’t look like, historically speaking, what people associate with Oakmont.

“But that is very much in vogue these days, cut down the trees. I’m not a fan of it. I think it’s fine for recreational golf. They are like you can see the whole property now but I don’t want to see the whole property, I want to see this hole and how it’s framed. Frames matter, there is a reason why we put them around great pieces of artwork and I think they matter.“

The previous nine scores that have won at Oakmont

Many are suggesting that even-par may well win the US Open this year.

However, since 1953, only one time has a score worse than one-under par won the tournament at Oakmont.

This year may well be different though. If the rough is grown up to six inches plus and the greens get up to 14 or more on the Stimpmeter, with the wind blowing, a score over par could well win.

However, as good as the likes of Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and co are nowadays, it would be no surprise at all if four or five-under par wins.