Defending champion Payne Stewart might have started...

Defending champion Payne Stewart might have started another controversy at the PGA Championship at Birmingham, Ala.

Stewart took the PGA to task--not because of the racial controversy that arose in the last month--but because of the deep, tough rough.

“If the PGA knew the course wasn’t good enough without growing rough like this, they should have taken it to a different golf course,” Stewart said.

“Almost unplayable,” he said of the Shoal Creek club. “I’m very disappointed with the way the PGA set up the golf course. It’s like there were red lines down both sides of the fairway; like it’s a hazard any time you’re out of the fairway.”