Tour Has Scouted Charlotte CC And Other Insights Into Wells Fargo Championship's Future

Ron Green looks at the prospect for future PGA Tour events at Quail Hollow and with the PGA Championship headed to the course in 2017, a contract expiring after 2014, tour officials scouting the recently restored Charlotte CC and some strange comments from Johnny Harris, it sounds like anything is possible.

Securing a PGA Championship has given Quail Hollow the cache of calling itself a major championship venue, something Harris wanted for the club his father, James J. Harris, created more than 50 years ago. It happened at a time when there were serious questions about future sponsorship possibilities for the club’s PGA Tour event.

“The reason the PGA is coming here is because nobody was talking to me (two years ago),” Harris said. “No matter what anyone says, no one was talking to me. The only thing we had to go on was Wells Fargo said (at the time) it didn’t want to be in golf.”