Johnny: Cog Hill Complainers Deserved To Do Lousy!

Teddy Greenstein corralled Johnny Miller before he hopped in his Town Car for a few quotes about the Cog Hill criticism from players.

"Anybody who complains about this course," he said, "needs to have his head examined."

After leaving the booth Sunday, Miller told the Tribune: "The guys who complained were the ones who weren't hitting it good. They deserved to do lousy."

Except, the complaints were aired before the tournament started.

Anyway, Johnny's other reasoning? Emphasis on ball striking, de-emphasis on short game. I know, I know...you have to read the quotes to believe them:

"Almost every guy who finished at the top of the leaderboard was in the top five in greens hit and ball-striking," Miller said. "To me, that's the ultimate. That's pure golf, not a bunch of scrambling crap."
Miller likened Jones to a necktie that falls out of favor after a few years.

"Rees came into vogue, and everybody liked him at first," Miller said. "If there's any (valid) criticism, it's all these bunkers that look like a jigsaw puzzle and all these little fingers (in the green) that kill you. But if you hit a bad shot, you get penalized. So I think it's a good golf course."

Wait, so he likes that the course rewards shotmaking, but he doesn't like how it penalizes a bad shot? Then, might that impact the whole risk-reward equation?