"feels rough" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the sensation of something with a rough texture. For example, "The carpet felt rough beneath my feet."
It feels rough, ready and raw and it's all the better for it".
It still feels rough around the edges, but it's a happening, up-and-coming place.
In place of a smooth fabric head that has become the norm in the past two decades, the new technology uses a fabric that feels rough to the touch.
Similarly, the bot feels rough around the edges, too.
"It gives the circuit a bit of soul and it's good for us for orientation and even if it feels rough it belongs to the circuit".
Cudillero still feels rough around the edges, a place caught between the regrets of the old generation and the hopes of the new.
Merakia's menu traces its origins to another kind of theft, of sorts—"young beautiful and Jewish girl" meets "boy from a Greek mountain village" who "horns in" when she's stood up at a "wild Greek dance party"—but there's little here that feels rough-and-ready.
If you run them one way along the snake, it feels rougher than the other way".
As a result, glass feels rougher as you drag your finger across it.
The sugar cane felt rough in my hand.
Tannins compounds that can cause a wine to feel rough or smooth change significantly with aging.
