By Mark Garrod, PA Sport Golf Correspondent, Long Island

Sergio Garcia has demonstrated again that he is not afraid to say or show what he thinks.

Officials and fans both felt the sharp end of Garcia's tongue after his second round in the United States Open - and Tiger Woods got a mention too.

First the officials. The 22-year-old Spaniard slammed the decision not to call off play for a while as the Bethpage Black course suffered a deluge.

"I don't know, if Tiger Woods had been out there I think it would have been called," said Garcia, whose 74 dropped him from one behind the world No 1 to seven adrift.

"I really felt there should have been a 40 or 45-minute break. There was a moment when not even the squeegees were going to help.

"I talked to the official that walked with us. On the 16th the bunker was under water and I asked if the bunker had to be bad to stop play or do the greens.

"He said it has to be the greens. Then when the greens were bad I thought what else has to be bad?

"So we get to the third tee and it's under water. So I'm thinking 'do we have to be swimming here to stop play or something?' It got to a point where it was a little too extreme."

Garcia clearly believes the golfing Gods are with Woods, who had finished by the time the course deteriorated seriously.

"If you're the best player in the world, you're playing well, you're making putts, when you hit it in the rough you always seem to get a lie to be able to hit it into the greens and you get the good side of the draw, that's tough to beat," said the Spaniard.

Now the fans. Garcia is back to his twitching with the club before he hits and when there was a comment on the 16th hole he made a gesture in the direction from which it came.

"The people have to realise we are trying as hard as we can and sometimes they make some stupid comments," he said.

"It feels like they don't make those comments to the bigger guys. Maybe they're afraid of them or something.

"But you can't control them unfortunately. There's going to be people like that in the whole world. If not, the world would be too perfect."

He would not spell out what was said. "I don't want to say, but it looks like out there sometimes you get people that are too smart."

The United States Golf Association also came in for criticism from a number of other players about the set-up of the course.

The 10th fairway was out of reach for many and Scott McCarron was among those who called it "ridiculous" that the tee was not moved forward.