Matt Vogt: The Golfing Dentist Teeing Off In The US Open Golf Tournament

The Dental Practitioner With More Than A Dab Hand At Golf In The USA

Who is Matt Vogt? Who is this guy capable of qualifying for the US Open at Oakmont Country Club? In 2025, the US Open is being played at one of, if not the toughest, golf course challenges in America. Oakmont is brutal but beautiful, with those church pew bunkers breaking the spirit of even the most devoted golfers. The rough will be 11cm long and that means the golf ball will be out of sight when playing from the rough. There are so many enormous and deep bunkers on Oakmont that getting up and down will be a bit like root canal. Matt Vogt, dentist, falls into the mid-amateur category by age. You see, most amateurs teeing it up in golf’s majors are the wunderkinds of the future. These superbly talented kids or young adults are most usually whippet thin and capable of hitting the golf ball vast distances. Most often, they are winners of prestigious amateur championships. The dentist from Indiana is not in this category.

“But in 2025, it’s a player who’s currently 2,078th in the World Amateur Rankings who’s been making all the headlines. Vogt is truly living the dream. He’s a full-time dentist who owns his own practice in Indiana, but his heart will always belong to Pennsylvania. He was born in the Pittsburgh area and as a youngster, he caddied for six years at the famed Oakmont Country Club that this year is hosting its 10th US Open. It’s a course where he grew to love the game.”
– CNN Edition

Dentist Who Used To Caddie Tees It Up At Oakmont In US Open

Yes, for most heralded amateurs playing in the US Open it is a prestigious pit stop on their way to careers as professional tournament golfers. Dentist Matt Vogt is another kettle of fish entirely. Indeed, for Matt this is the high peak in a life rich with helping others through his chosen profession of dentistry. You do not have to drill down too far to find the things that are really important to Matt Vogt.

“So yes, Vogt will be at Oakmont this week after qualifying for the 125th edition of the national championship. In essentially his hometown, on a course that certainly feels like home on Father’s Day weekend, just two months after losing his father and biggest supporter, Jim, to colon cancer.”
– Fortune Magazine

Who Is Matt Vogt?

He is around 6 foot 6 inches tall and built like a linebacker, according to one announcer. Matt Vogt hit one of his early drives at the US Open on the first day over 350m. Obviously, this dentist can play a bit. 34 YO with a wife and family, running his own dental practice in Indiana – Matt is living the dream this week. Millions of golfers around America and around the globe would be salivating at the opportunity Matt has created for himself via qualifying for the US Open. That is what an Open championship is – open to those men capable of shooting good enough scores to qualify. It may mean playing 36 holes in one day and shooting the best score in the field. Australia’s Marc Leishman had to do just that to qualify himself for the US Open at Oakmont.

Having been a caddie at Oakmont for 6 years when growing up around there would have been a distinct advantage. Even though the Oakmont golf course has been remodelled by Gil Hanse, famed golf course architect, since those times when Matt Vogt was a caddie there. Some things never really change on a course like Oakmont, however, and this may serve Matt Vogt well.

Dentistry & Golf

“What did the dentist say to the golfer? You have a hole in one.”

What do dental skills and golf skills share in common? Precision is important in both professions. The dentist plies her or his (or their) instruments within a much smaller arena. Holes do need to be filled in both capacities. Having to fill18 holes in one session may be beyond most dentists but, yet again, who really knows, hey? Perhaps, making a putt to win a competition may test the nerves of even the most steely dentist, but, then again, it may not really compare to performing root canal therapy. Golf, in terms of the swing, is about sequencing movements in concert with correct timing. Dentists have to be good in tight spaces. A hole in one is a rare occurrence on the golf links but pretty much par for the course at the dental clinic.

“A couple of older golfers were golfing when one said he was going to the dentist for a new set of dentures in the morning.

His friend remarked that he had gone to the same dentist a few years before. “Is that so?” the first said. “Did he do a good job?”

“Well, I was on the course yesterday when the fellow on the ninth hole hooked a shot,” he said. “The ball most have been going 200kph when it hit me in the stomach. That,” he added, “was the first time in two years my teeth didn’t hurt.” “

Matt Vogt Owes Golf & Oakmont

“ “Even as I just talk about it now, I get sentimental on it. This place means so much to me,” Vogt said at a pre-tournament press conference on Monday. He described the members as “incredible”. He name-checked Stanley Druckenmiller, a billionaire hedge-fund-manager-turned-philanthropist. “He provided me and a lot of the caddies with a scholarship to help with college. So I’m just indebted to this place, and I’m so grateful.” “
– Golf.com

Billionaire golfer helps create dentist via his philanthropy. Matt Vogt owes golf and Oakmont Country Club for assisting him in becoming a qualified dentist. Perhaps, his qualification is in some way a pay back or thank you for all that.

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