Holes of the U.S. Open

No. 1 is a dog-leg-right par-4 of 430 yards.

The tee is elevated with the rest of the hole relatively flat.

The "angle of play" is a factor off the first tee. How much of the dog leg right can be cut off? Though there are no fairway bunkers there is the graduated rough.

The inside of the dog leg is well protected by trees including some additional red maples to make the forest area a bit denser. With bunkers left and right of the green short or long is the best miss depending on hole location.

Great opening hole!

No. 2 is a dog-leg-left par-4 of 389 yards.

This par- 4 is the shortest and only one of the 12 par-4s on the course less than 400 yards.

It plays uphill through a valley of oak trees. Like the first hole there are no fairway bunkers only graduated rough.

Both greenside bunkers are located short of the green.

No. 3 is a par-3 of 232 yards.

The "Open Doctor" Rees Jones has added a new back tee to make this the longest par-3 on the golf course.

Bunkers guard the entire left side of this diagonally set green along with another bunker short right.

No. 4 is a slight dog-leg-left par-5 of 517 yards.

This is the signature hole of Bethpage Black with dramatic bunkering the entire length of this gradually uphill hole. The tee shot plays like a slight dog-leg left around a huge bunker left of the fairway. The second shot must carry a series of cross bunkers that angle the entire width of the fairway. Two bunkers guard the green short and left.

Either the long second shot or wedge third shot is to a green hidden by elevation. The green slopes from front to back away from the golfer. Long is a closely mowed down hill slope to high fescue.

This hole is the shorter of the two par-5s on the golf course and even shorter than par-4 7th hole.

Played the third easiest hole in 2002 though still over par at an average score of 5.011.

No. 5 is a dog-leg-left par-4 of 478 yards.

The tee shot is downhill while the approach shot is uphill.

The right side bunker begins before the fairway and guards right while tall overhanging oaks guard the left side.

The relatively small green is surrounded by three bunkers.

No. 6 is a par-4 of 408 yards.

This is the first hole with fairway bunkers left and right.

Past the bunkers the fairway falls off so that longer tee shots require a more blind approach into the well bunkered green. Two half moon bunkers almost totally encapsulate the green.

No. 7 is a dog-leg-right par-4 of 525 yards.

With a new tee that added 36 yards versus 2002 this hole is the longest par-4 in the history of the U.S. Open.

There is a large bunker short right of the fairway and a bunker left and long right of the landing area.

The inside of the dog-leg is protected by large oak trees.

The bunkers at the green are short right and short left only exasperating the distance factor of this golf hole.

No. 8 is a par-3 of 210 yards.

Open doctor Rees has restored the green to its original Tillinghast design. With a shaved front slope the front pond will come into play. With a front hole location the hole will likely be played from a front tee making it 150 yards.

No. 9 is a dog-leg-left par-4 of 480 yards.

The tee has been moved back 40 yards since 2002 and a new left fairway bunker has been added. Fairway slopes right-to-left towards the bunker and complicates the partial blind shot to the elevated green.

There are two bunkers short left and right of the green.

No.10 is a slight dog-leg-left par-4 of 508 yards.

This hole played the third most difficult in 2002 at an average score of 4.499

It is the second par-4 over 500 yards.

In 2002 golfers had difficulty reaching the fairway with their drives. It has been extended back towards the tee to insure all are able to carry the fairway in this U.S. Open.

The fairway is well bunkered left and right and the green is protected by two bunkers short left and right.

There is a tightly mowed swale behind green.

No. 11 is a par-4 of 435 yards

The fairway is protected on both sides with bunkers.

The green is guarded by bunkers short left and right.

No. 12 is a dog-leg-left par-4 of 504 yards.

This hole played the second most difficult in 2002 at an average score of 4.523

There is a large bunker left that may be challenged to cut the corner and a bunker right.

The green is guarded by bunkers short left and right.

No. 13 is a par-5 of 605 yards.

Though the longest hole on the golf course the 143th played the second easiest hole in 2002 at an average score of 4.941.

A tee shot hit left of the fairway will find a long bunker. Another bunker on the left must be navigated on the second shot.

The green is protected with a cross bunker that looks next to the green but is well short of the putting surface. Another bunker guards the short right side of the green.

No. 14 is a par-3 of 158 yards.

This hole played the easiest hole in 2002 at an average score of 2.903

It is the shortest par-3 on the course.

The green has been enlarged by adding a front tongue. The wide in the back narrow in front green is well bunkered most of its length on both sides.

No. 15 is an uphill par-4 of 459 yards

The 15th played the most difficult in 2002 at an average score of 4.600.

The fairway is bunker less and flat with an approach shot to an elevated well bunkered green.

There are three dramatic bunkers short of the green in the hillside and a forth bunker green side short and left.

No. 16 is a downhill par-4 of 490 yards.

The fairway is bunker less.

Two bunkers guard the green short left and right.

No. 17 is an uphill par-3 of 207 yards.

The green is surrounded by bunkers- two in front, left, right and back right.

No. 18 is an uphill par-4 of 411 yards.

The slightly downhill tee shot must miss clusters of bunkers left and right. They number six left and three right though their total surface area is about the same.

The approach shot is uphill to an elevated green with a huge bunker short right and one short left.

What will happen here on Sunday afternoon?