In the eyes of many, there’s not a better venue for the US Open.

Ryan Moore must have missed that memo.

Moore, playing in his fifth US Open, had fairly consistent rounds of 75-73-75-73, finishing 12 over par and in a tie for 33d. Following his final round yesterday, instead of being pleased with making the cut in a major championship for the eighth time, Moore held nothing back, sharply criticizing the US Golf Association for what he feels is an unfair course setup every year, but especially this year.

“I just like a golf course that’s set up in a way that rewards good golf shots. I don’t understand why you’d have a tournament that doesn’t reward good golf shots,’’ Moore said. “If you can’t even hit a shot that can stay on the green, where’s the skill involved?

“Half the greens are green, the other half are brown, so honestly it’s a matter of which patch you land it on. You can get a 25-foot bounce or your ball might bounce 5 feet and then spin back because it landed in a soft patch. That’s luck as far as I’m concerned, it has nothing to do with skill or landing it in the right spot.’’

Moore has played in USGA events for years, and quite well, too. He’s one of only seven golfers to win two USGA events in the same year; he bagged the US Amateur and US Amateur Public Links in 2004, and also won the Public Links in 2002.

In five US Opens he’s made three cuts, with a tie for 10th at Bethpage Black last year his best finish.

But he’s baffled about how to succeed in the national championship, saying that the USGA chooses tricky over difficulty when it comes to course setup, and that the greens are much too firm, not holding well-struck approach shots.

“I just don’t have the golf shots, I guess, to win these tournaments. I physically can’t hit the shots they demand you to hit,’’ Moore said. “If you can hit shots and execute them and hit them exactly where you want to and where they demand you to hit it and they still don’t work out, I just don’t understand how that’s good golf.’’

He saved his harshest comments for the 17th hole at Pebble Beach, a par-3 that played 219 yards yesterday, with the tee shot hit toward the ocean and usually into a breeze. The peanut-shaped green is only 18 yards deep on the left side, where the pin placement was in the final round.

“It’s completely unreasonable, it’s just a horrible golf hole, the way they set it up,’’ Moore said. “I honestly looked at it [yesterday], I don’t think I could have stopped a 7-iron if I hit it into that green. I hit the highest, softest 4-iron, tried to turn it in with the slope . . . no chance of getting it on the green.’’

Moore, who is in the field at this week’s Travelers Championship near Hartford, was asked if he’d continue to play in the US Open, if he feels that strongly about the course setups being unfair.

“I don’t know. I’ll probably keep playing them, just to torture myself,’’ he said. “I get angry, and it makes me hate golf for about two months, then I’m OK again.

“It doesn’t matter. Anything we say, they’re going to do exactly what they do. In their minds, this is a great golf tournament, and this is how golf should be. It should be torture, apparently. It should not reward good golf shots, and you shouldn’t be able to make putts when you hit them on line.

“I’m sure all this is going to get printed and they’re going to hate me, but I’m OK with that. I’ve won three of their championships.’’