Quail Hollow Lands 2025 PGA Championship On Top Of Next Year's Presidents Cup And Maybe Even This Year's PGA

Don’t get me wrong. LOVE Charlotte. The people, the places, the food, the short rental car center walk.

But how Quail Hollow became America’s southeastern St Andrews, I have no clue.

The over-renovated, over-extended and over-glorified club is kind of everything that seems past its time, if it had a time: long, light on character, ugly and expensive blinding-white bunkers set on the outside of doglegs, bales of Bermudagrass rough, an elitist vibe and extreme overexposure.

With that said, the club finalized a second PGA Championship in 2025 today in case you were mapping out your summer five years from now. The club is scheduled to host next year’s Presidents Cup, probably has Wells Fargo’s on PGA Tour the 2022-24 calendars, and based on what I’m reading from Dave Shedloski of Golf World, this year’s PGA. That is, when it’s officially apparent California and other states are not an option.

The PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh acknowledged California’s “Phase 4” reopening of the state will not happen by August, all but killing Harding Park’s chances of hosting with or without fans.

You do not need a doctorate to see a possible replacement site is down to a pair of venues if the PGA Championship is played in 2020.

As for major-caliber layouts on the CBS schedule, once you eliminate California contenders Riviera Country Club and Torrey Pines, the leaders would be Muirfield Village Golf Club, in Dublin, Ohio, and Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. It’s doubtful Muirfield Village, which has held a Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, would get the nod when it’s annual Memorial Tournament, hosted by Nicklaus, is rescheduled for July 16-19. Quail Hollow was the site of the 2017 PGA, won by Justin Thomas, and was just announced Thursday that it was being awarded the 2025 PGA Championship. The course wouldn’t require much extra effort to get into shape, because the Wells Fargo Championship that Quail Hollow was slated to host through May 3 was among the nine tournaments the PGA Tour was forced to cancel during the pandemic.