USGA executive: Woods wrong to criticize greens

PEBBLE BEACH, California (AP) - Tiger Woods was wrong to criticize the Pebble Beach greens as "awful," U.S. Golf Association executive director David Fay said Saturday at the U.S. Open.

Woods, who won the previous U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by a record 15 shots by making just about every putt inside 8 feet, failed to make a single birdie in his first round of 74. He said in a television interview, and later to reporters, that the greens were "just awful."