OAKMONT, Pa. — Just behind the elbow where the 15th green pivots against the 16th tee at Oakmont Country Club sits "The Dump." It features no garbage trucks. No garbage men. Not even any garbage.
What it does have is wood. Lots and lots of wood – chopped and split and piled up 10 feet high. And that's just what's been cut. Next to that pile sits another of stumps and logs and branches that Oakmont's starter Reed Clarke and his four-to-five-man crew haven't gotten to yet.
"I can't tell you how much wood we've split," said Clarke.