“I don’t know, we all have to play it,” he began. “And I don’t agree with some of the times when they move the tees up and change the golf course. I didn’t agree with the setup at 14 in ’08 [at Torrey Pines]. It was a great par 4, but why move it all the way up there and make it drivable?”

DUBLIN, Ohio — The USGA has taken plenty of heat for its recent U.S. Open setups. You can now count Tiger Woods among those to question its decision-making. On Saturday, after posting a round of two-under 70 at the Memorial , Woods was asked about his disagreements with the USGA — and had plenty to say.

“There was a time there where it was a brutal test, and then it became kind of a tricky decision you had to make, trying to bring in more options off the tees or into the greens. The Open has changed. I thought it was just narrow fairways, hit it in the fairway or hack out, move on. Now there’s chipping areas around the greens. There’s less rough. Graduated rough. They’ve tried to make The Open different and strategically different.

“I just like it when there’s high rough and narrow fairways, and go get it, boys.”

Woods said they started introducing graduated rough at Winged Foot in 2006, but seemed to have an even greater distaste for moving tees around.

“Probably the biggest example of that was at 9 at Chambers [Bay, in 2015]. It was 240, 250 downhill and then 190, 200 playing straight up the mountain.”

The par 3 in question had two radically different sets of tees, which Woods found disagreeable. As for Chambers’ Bay’s 18th hole, which was played as a par 4 and a par 5 on different days? Woods could only laugh. “That’s the past,” he said.