Golf's Major Championships

[Seminole Red]

The feeling only intensifies under the pressure of a major, as it did in 2017, the first time Quail Hollow hosted the PGA Championship (the club was also the site of the 2022 Presidents Cup). It was the most difficult course the PGA Tour played that year, beating Augusta National, Erin Hills and Royal Birkdale, the other major championship venues, and the players collectively leaked an average of more than a stroke a day over the distance of the Green Mile. That scenario is likely to play out again on the 7,558-yard, par-71 design that’s been remodeled several times by Tom Fazio since 1996, including an extensive alteration in 2016 that included three new holes and most recently in 2023 when the greens, bunkers and tees were rebuilt.