The PGA Tour heads to Charlotte for the second major of the year, the PGA Championship. The host venue this week will be Quail Hollow Club, host of the 2017 PGA Championship and the annual event now known as the Truist Championship (held last week in Philadelphia with Quail’s major hosting duties).

Players rave about it when they come every year, but for the course architecture heads and the peripheral golf community, the glass is very much half empty on this week’s PGA Championship venue. So why is the divide so stark?

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Masters champion Rory McIlroy and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will be playing together in the opening two rounds of the PGA Championship, joined by defending champion Xander Schauffele in another group of the top three players in the world.

Few details of the upcoming PGA Championship will have as much impact on the final result as what the players can do on the so-called "Green Mile."

Quail Hollow Club is an annual stop on the PGA Tour except for the years in which it hosts the PGA Championship. Obviously, 2025 is such a year as the second ma

Scottie Scheffler prefers to live in the present. He still concedes that coming to the PGA Championship off a big win doesn't hurt.

This is entirely due to inclement weather, which started Monday with a forecast calling for rain (99% chance) and storms intermittently throughout the day. Over a half-inch of rain is expected to fall before the evening. Tuesday should see more of the same with an 88% chance of rain and a quarter-inch of rainfall expected.