![]() ![]() The early-autumn date of the Presidents Cup means that any cool-season grass has long since died off, leaving Quail Hollow to its natural carpet of Bermuda turf. In order to make the course pop for springtime (and television), superintendent Keith Wood and his staff overseed it with perennial ryegrass, which gives it a lush emerald hue reminiscent of northern parkland golf. The course that will greet the 2022 Presidents Cup's two dozen contestants will look a little different in late September than it typically does in May. Quail Hollow's Southern parkland environs will be the stage for the 2022 Presidents Cup. All along, though, the course has been reliably well-liked by the world's best golfers: there aren't a lot of tricks or quirks, and the best drivers of the ball tend to flourish (witness Rory McIlroy's three Wells Fargo titles). Starting in 1997, though, Tom Fazio has been Quail Hollow's architect of record, undertaking first a major course rebuild in 1997, followed by further tweaks in 20. The 1980s saw changes to four holes by Arnold Palmer. By the end of the decade, it was hosting the PGA Tour's Kemper Open, which would return to Charlotte until 1979. George Cobb laid out Quail Hollow's original course in 1961. ![]() The course has a core routing, with periodic reminders of its location in one of Charlotte's wealthiest neighborhoods in the form of mansion-sized homes along the perimeter. ![]() Two of that major's top finishers - winner Justin Thomas and Hideki Matsuyama (tied for 5th) - will be leading their respective teams around the course this week.įor the most part, Quail Hollow is very much in the mold of typical modern championship layouts: large in scale, broad-shouldered and long, with narrow fairways, plenty of water, greens that accommodate a good variety of hole locations and pearly white bunkers. This year, we're back on American soil at Quail Hollow Club, which is particularly familiar since it hosts a PGA Tour event each year (the Wells Fargo Championship), and also hosted the 2017 PGA Championship. On three occasions, fans willing to stay up late have gotten the rare treat of seeing golf played at Royal Melbourne, one of the world's greatest courses. In 2015, a Nick Price-captained International side nearly took down the Americans in South Korea. In 2003, it helped put Fancourt in South Africa on the map, thanks to the epic duel into darkness between Tiger Woods and Ernie Els that resulted in the Cup's only tie. Few golf events exhibit greater playing-field contrasts from one edition to the next than the Presidents Cup.Īfter being contested the first two times at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club outside Washington, D.C., the team match play display has done a great deal of globe-trotting, sampling an eclectic mix of championship venues in Australia, Africa, Asia and North America. ![]()
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