At the 2005 Wachovia Championship, as the tournament was then known, Sergio Garcia blew a 6-shot, 54-hole lead. One of the golfers who shares that unfortunate record had his collapse at Quail Hollow. The PGA Tour record for largest 54-hole lead lost is six strokes.He also set the Wells Fargo tournament record of 267. But in his 2015 victory, McIlroy set the Quail Hollow course record of 61.Fowler earned his win by beating McIlroy in a playoff. McIlroy won again in 2015, and it was Fowler's victory in 2012 that prevented McIlroy from tying Weiskopf's three wins at Quail Hollow in 2015.For McIlroy, that first win was in 2010 for Fowler, it was in 2012. Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler both earned their first career PGA Tour wins at Quail Hollow.Weiskopf won the PGA Tour's Kemper Open in 1971, 19. Tom Weiskopf is the only golfer (so far) to win three tour events at Quail Hollow.The Wells Fargo Championship has been played at Quail Hollow since 2003.Ī creek runs up the entire left side of the 18th hole at Quail Hollow. But Quail Hollow is also the site of a current PGA Tour tournament. In 1983 through 1988, a Champions Tour tournament, the PaineWebber Invitational, was played at Quail Hollow. These are the golfers who won the PGA Tour Kemper Open at Quail Hollow: The club first hosted a PGA Tour event from 1969 through 1979, the Kemper Open (a tournament that in 1980 moved to Maryland and became better known as the Booz Allen Classic). The 2017 PGA Championship is its first major, and the 2021 Presidents Cup will add to the club's pedigree. Quail Hollow has been the site of many tour events over the years. 3 hole during a Wells Fargo Championship tournament. The second shot is uphill, and there's a creek down the entire left side of the narrow fairway. The 17th is a 223-yard par-3 that plays to a green that is mostly surrounded by water (it's not quite an island green). The 16th hole is a long - 506 yards - par-4 whose green borders water. If there's no wind blowing, those holes are hard.' If there is any wind blowing, those holes are hard. (Statistically, the 16th, 17th and 18th holes at Quail Hollow play as one of the toughest closing stretches every year on the PGA Tour.)Īs John Cook once said of The Green Mile: 'It's a hard finish. Which tells you something about how tough the last three holes are. And the nickname, by the way, is prison slang for the last walk of a condemned prisoner. The combined distance of the three holes is not quite truly a mile long. Why? Because it has a cool nickname: 'The Green Mile.' But probably the most famous part of the Quail Hollow golf course is the 3-hole closing stretch. The club calls its driveable, dogleg par-4 14th hole a signature hole. Women - Course rating 70.6, slope rating 130. V Tees: Men - Course rating 65.2, slope rating 117.Women - Course rating 74.8, slope rating 139 IV Tees: Men - Course rating 69.0, slope rating 129.Women - Course rating 78.5, slope rating 147 III Tees: Men - Course rating 71.7, slope rating 133.II Tees: Course rating 74.5, slope rating 140.I Tees: Course rating 77.2 slope rating 148.There are five sets of members' tees at Quail Hollow, three of which are rated for women in addition to men. These are the hole-by-hole yardages in use at that major championship: Streeter Lecka/Getty ImagesĪt the 2017 PGA Championship, Quail Hollow played to a par of 71 and a total yardage of 7,600.

Looking across the 17th green at Quail Hollow to the 18th hole behind. It is inside of Interstate 485, the loop around the city - not one of those suburban courses far from the city center. Quail Hollow Club is located south of Downtown in Charlotte, N.C., and southeast of Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Some of the greens are crowned and the surfaces are very firm, so stopping balls is a challenge. So today the club uses bermudagrass on its putting surfaces. The club tried at one point to switch to bentgrass greens, but the Carolina heat was just too much for them. And today, it is a classic, beautiful parkland course: mostly routed through the trees, boasting plenty of water and sand. The Quail Hollow golf course was designed, in the words of the club, 'to capture the beauty as well as challenging terrain of the Piedmont region' of North Carolina. Rory McIlroy plays a shot into Quail Hollow's fifth hole during a Wells Fargo Championship tournament.

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