Oakmont Country Club is the site of this week’s U.S. Open, but it was a steel furnace plant that led to the creation of one of the toughest golf courses in the world.
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The Kerry Blast furnaces National Historic Landmark, the first complex here opens in 1884. The original owners were a couple of brothers, the last name of phones, and they were industrialists, and they ran this site from 1884 to 1898 when they sold their interest to Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Steel. But the story doesn’t end there. They sold this property for $750,000 and took that money and invested it in the town of Oakmont, bought some land and built a golf course. So the money from the sale of the Kerry furnaces built the Oakmont Country Club. They are forever connected.
