Oakmont Country Club will play host to the U.S. Open for a record eighth time beginning this morning. For all that has changed in the world of golf these past 80 years, Oakmont, despite being a few hundred yards longer, really won't play much different than it did when Tommy Armour and Gene Sarazen teed it up on a June morning in 1927. We re-print a course breakdown as it ran in the Post-Gazette that morning.

The famous Oakmont Country club course, where the Pittsburgh district qualifying will hold forth tomorrow, and the national open championship on June 14, 15 and 16, is the longest and hardest test ever confronting competitors in any golf event.

The layout is exactly 6,915 yards long. Its par is 72. Scattered over its landscape are 193 bunkers, reputed for their deep furrows which exact a penalty for all tee shots that lack either distance or direction.

The shots herewith designated for each hole, are applicable only if the players are splitting the fairway and getting distance on their drives.

No. 1, 482 yards, par 5

Out of bounds to the right. Continuous line of traps and bunkers on the left. Second shot down hill to green. Green cannot be seen from drive. Fairway entrance to green about 30 yards wide, with bunkers at right and left. Rough to carry also on both sides of fairway, all the way, as is the case at every hole. Two good shots -- drive and spoon.

No. 2, 363 yards, par 4

A huge cop-bunker extends diagonally nearly across the course. Longest carry to right. Narrow untrapped entrance at the right of undulating pear-shaped green for well placed tee shot. Boundary fence behind green. Fine type of hole. Drive and massie niblick.

No. 3, 428 yards, par 4

Low mounds placed at right angles to the fairway with alternating sand traps to catch a pulled tee shot. Trap to carry at right side of course. Second shot upgrade. Green flush with the natural ground formation at the hill crest. Narrow open at right for low shot. New bunkers at the right. Green lies broadside to the shot. Drive and mid-mashie.

No. 4, 536 yards, par 5

Twenty yards added to the tee which stands several feet above where the ball lands. Punishing bunkers on both sides of fairway. Heroic second shot carry on bee line. Three shot route to the left. Beautifully designed, irregular shaped green tilted forward to meet the shot. Deep punishing bunkers on both sides of green. Drive, brassie and mashie niblick.

No. 5, 386 yards, par 4

The tee has been raised and pushed back, giving visibility and added length, so that the natural hazards in front of the green are entirely surrounded by hazards including bunkers, traps and rough. Mounds line the fairway on the right with a big new bunker placed to catch hooked tee shots. Drive and mashie.

No. 6, 187 yards, par 3

Great accuracy is necessary from the tee because the green is virtually an island. A narrow entranced neck of only five yards is the lone unbunkered spot whereon the ball may light en route. Midiron.

No. 7, 395 yards, par 4

Tee shot is uphill. Two overlapping cross bunkers catch all but long drivers. Extreme carry to the left about 190 yards, and to the right about 230 yards. Prevailing wind rather in front. Green lies diagonally to the shot and is treacherously bunkered. Very difficult to average the par 4. Driver and No. 3 iron.

No. 8, 253 yards, par 3

Length increased 20 yards by the addition of an elevated tee. A wide semi-circular bunker 70 yards long stands at the left and front of the green. Must carry 180 yards to get over bunker to small landing place. Better to carry past green than fall short, for there are no traps back of it. Driver.

No. 9, 477 yards, par 5

Upgrade free tee to green. Punishing bunkers and rough on both sides of fairway. Two wide-spreading traps stand on the fairway in the best line to the hole. Bunker inserted in right front of green. Putting green, connected with practice green, is large and undulated, making approach putting difficult. Drive and brassie.

No. 10, 461 yards, par 4

Down grade, particularly for second shot. Large ditches and mounds line fairway. Green is flat and flush with surrounding surface. Driver and midiron.

No. 11, 395 yards, par 4

It is necessary to drive 250 yards from tee in order to see the green surface. The green is completely surrounded with trouble. A deep ugly water hazard also crosses fairway. Drive and No. 3 iron same as No. 7.

No. 12, 621 yards, par 5

Longest hole on the course. Treacherous bunkers on right and left of fairway with extreme penalty for pulled or sliced tee shot. Contour of ground slopes to the right. Traps and rough on the left and rough on the right to catch an imperfect second shot. A well trapped green sloping away makes this hole a well-played five. Two full shots and mashie.

No. 13, 164 yards, par 3

Shortest hole. Fairway entrance to the green about 10 yards with the slope, toward the left front to meet shot. Very deep bunkers on the right and semi-circular traps on the left. Green is pear-shaped and responds to a well played tee shot.

No. 14, 349 yards, par 4

Rather narrow fairway lined with mounds and bunkers. Green is level with fairway, open in front, and trapped on both sides, with surface undulations. Drive and mashie.

No. 15, 475 yards, par 4

Wide exposed sand trap requiring 160 yards carry from the tee. Bunkers border each side and in center of fairway for second shot. This hole has been extended 55 yards up and to the right, to produce a dog-leg effect requiring a very stiff second shot. Drive and spoon.

No. 16, 234 yards, par 3

A very exacting one shot hole. Recently remodeled from tee to green. The new tee is located to the right of the fifteenth green. The green has been elevated and is guarded on both left and right by nasty bunkers. Has proven an exceedingly hard carry, due to the wind conditions. Drive with wood.

No. 17, 302 yards, par 4

Veritable village of bunkers of all shapes and sizes on bee line to the hole, resembling the habitat of beavers. Dog-leg route to right for timid drivers. Difficult pitch from dog-leg route. Drive and mashie niblick.

No. 18, 457 yards, par 4

Fairway straight away. Bunkers to carry on the line. Mound in front of green. Big new bunkers decorate both sides of green, which is large and undulating. Drive and spoon.