U.S. Open
U.S. Open 2025: Justin Thomas chimes in on 'questionable' course conditions
Patrick Smith
Justin Thomas missed the cut at the 2025 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)."
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, as the final group reached the eighth tee, it began to come down again, once again stopping play, this time for more than 90 minutes in the middle of a tense final round.
Play resumed at 5:37 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, on the back nine of a U.S. Open Sunday, no less?
Play on, they did, with J.J. Spaun making four birdies on his final seven holes, including the 17th and 18th, to win by two shots. As the only player to break par for 72 holes, Spaun claimed the title in a war of attrition that will be remembered for ages.