The year’s second men’s major championship is just days away, but if your excitement for the event hasn’t started to build, we’ll forgive you. For many golf fans, the curiosity of how the top pros in the world will play Philadelphia Cricket Club in their one-off visit to the venerable course for this week’s Truist Championship has delayed their anticipation for next week’s PGA Championship.
There’s another excuse, however, as to why some might be tempering their eagerness to looking ahead to Quail Hollow Club: the early week weather forecast for Charlotte, N.C.
Indeed, if you haven’t given your favorite weather app a look we’ll save you the trouble and let you know that it’s not pretty—at least for the start of the week.
Here’s a look at the 10-day forecast:
OK, so the four competition days look fairly promising, but the three practice round days suggest there might not be a lot of practicing going on.
Here’s a more detailed look at Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday’s projections:
Yeah, that looks like an awful lot of rain heading Charlotte’s way.
The good news for competitors in the field is that Quail Hollow is a yearly stop on the PGA Tour, so familiarity with the course won’t be a significant issue. The bad news is PGA of America officials are likely to be hamstrung with a soft course (even with the SubAir system in place below the greens at Quail Hollow) that will probably produce a lot of red numbers—and play into the hands of the longest hitters on tour.
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Few golf course projects had more national attention in recent years than Quail Hollow, mainly because its front nine was redesigned just a year before it hosted the 2017 PGA Championship. The par-4 first and par-3 second holes were completely torn up, replaced by a new long dogleg-right par-4 opening hole. Several acres of pines to the left of the fifth tee were removed to make room for a new par-3 fourth. (With its knobby green fronted by three traps, it proved to be the most frustrating hole for pros in the 2017 PGA.) More pines were removed to the left of the par-4 11th, replaced by bunkers, and even more trees chopped down on a hill left of the par-4 18th to make room for money-making hospitality boxes. There’s no question that this latest remodeling, rushed though it was, improved the course. Quail Hollow hosted the 2022 Presidents Cup (the order of the holes were rearranged to ensure the majority of matches would reach the vaunted Green Mile, 16-18) and the 2025 PGA Championship. View Course
The other interesting extreme to watch for is the quick change in temperatures. On Monday the highs are expected to be in the upper 60s. Come Saturday, the thermometer could reach 90.
Perhaps the one saving grace for the week is that the winds are expected to be reasonable every day.
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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
