Scottie Scheffler Calls US Open at Oakmont 'The Hardest Golf Course...Maybe Ever'

World No. 1 and defending PGA Championship winner, Scottie Scheffler, believes that this week's U.S. Open, hosted at the Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, will be quite the test.

"This is probably the hardest golf course that we'll play," he told reporters Tuesday. "Maybe ever."

"When you miss the green at the Masters, the ball runs away and it goes into these areas, and you can play a bump, you can play a flop. There's different options," he continued. "Here, when you hit the ball over the green, you just get in some heavy rough, and it's like, 'Let me see how I can pop the ball out of this rough and somehow give myself a look.'"

Bryson DeChambeau concurred with those general sentiments.

"I think everybody knows this is probably the toughest golf course in the world right now," he told reporters. "You have to hit the fairways, you have to hit greens, and you have to two-putt, worst-case scenario. When you've got those putts inside 10 feet, you've got to make them. It's a great test of golf."

The U.S. Open was last played at Oakmont in 2016, with Dustin Johnson emerging victorious. Whoever wins this time around will have battled to do so.