His thoughts were that NGLA was tricked up, had too many blind shots and luck was too much of a factor.
Here is the crux of the matter as to what defines golf for each of us.
To use the card and pencil mentality NGLA is definitely a favorite of the match play crowd and abhored by a player obsessed with "fairness" (How I abhor that concept as regards golf!!!!) and not losing a single stroke.
A propos this week....Can you imagine Q-school at NGLA with old ball dynamics? Suicide city. Another case or PGATour golf replacing golf as the standard.
This is the core of the arguement of whether NGLA is great or more specifically whether a particular quirky hole s great. Is redan unfair because you can't (Most of the time) fly a ball to a spot, spin and stop it?
Putting off #1 is nearly always a possibility?
Hitting the wrong tier on #11?
Stopping a ball anywhere on #12 anytime especially downwind?
Having a doubly blind shot on #16?
How well do you handle circumstance out of your control?
That's what makes NGLA and all its glorious excesses great, hole after hole.