The a hundredth PGA Championship will take location at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. Quail Hollow is a routine Tour stop for the Wells Fargo Championship, but has made some changes to fit the PGA Championship.
The path was initially designed via George Cobb in 1961. Cobb has a lengthy listing of courses he designed, but nearly they all were relegated to the Mid-Atlantic states of Virginia, North and South Carolina. His maximum distinguished layout is clearly the par-3 direction at Augusta National.
Arnold Palmer made changes to Quail Hollow in 1986 and then Tom Fazio made alterations within the direction in 1997 and 2003. The predominant adjustments for the PGA Championship is that Quail Hollow is going from rye grass to Bermuda which they sense will in all likelihood make the route play less assailable. They additionally altered the first hollow, turning it from a 418 yard par-four into a 508 yard par-four. They additionally modified the par-5 fifth hole right into a par-4.
Over the years most players I?Ve talked to like the layout of Quail Hollow, however aren?T always nutty about the situations and normally dislike the inexperienced contours. While I suppose Arnold Palmer can be the most underrated golfing course dressmaker of my generation, if there?S one attribute to his designs it?S that he changed into very insistent on retaining the ball under the cup and often times used a few extreme contours on the greens to get that factor throughout. But, that is still a George Cobb layout and given it was constructed in 1961, that?S an era while green contours had been much extra severe so I don?T think Mr. Palmer wanted to change that too much.
Despite the latest renovations, I do now not expect the path to trade that an awful lot. It will nevertheless be a ballstriker?S course and the three-wooden will be more crucial here than it is on maximum other Tour publications. It nonetheless favors the longer hitter, but if the route plays firmer with the Bermuda grass, it will permit for greater shorter hitters to have a risk.
While I?M now not overly nutty about the path itself, I think we ought to have the makings for a notable tournament with all the top-10 gamers inside the international beginning to play pretty well, Spieth chasing for the profession Grand Slam, the feasible rise of Matsuyama in making claim to the #1 player in the global and Rory beginning to heat up once more. And I nevertheless challenge that the final vital hollow on the route may be the par-four 18th hollow.
PROJECTED WINNING SCORE: -11
3JACK?S FAVORITES
Rory McIlroy seven-hundred
Jordan Spieth 850
Dustin Johnson 1,one hundred
Hideki Matsuyama 1,2 hundred
Rickie Fowler 1,six hundred
Jon Rahm 2,2 hundred
3JACK?S DARK HORSE PICKS
Paul Casey 4,500
Daniel Berger 5,500
Zach Johnson 6,six hundred
Brendan Steele 20,000
EXTREME DARK HORSE PICK
Luke List 35,000
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