This Cog defective

In what likely will be the last time the BMW Championship is played at Cog Hill, some of the PGA Tour’s top players are not sorry to see it leave the public golf course south of Chicago. The most biting comment Wednesday came from Steve Stricker (pictured), reputed to be one of the most polite players in golf. Stricker is among those who fell out of love with Cog Hill when Rees Jones was hired to redesign the course in 2008 in an effort to land the U.S. Open. The greens were raised. The bunkers were deepened. The course was lengthened. Steep ridges in the greens led to impossible putts. Cog Hill didn’t get the U.S. Open, and now the BMW Championship is leaving. “They need to get their money back, I guess,” said Stricker. – Associated Press