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Quail Hollow Club: Course Intelligence
Quail Hollow Club opened in 1961 with a George Cobb routing on a piece of Charlotte, North Carolina south-suburban land — the founding membership included James A. Garrett and other Charlotte business figures who wanted a tournament-caliber Carolina private course. Arnold Palmer renovated the routing through the 1980s and 1990s, and Tom Fazio supervised the most-recent significant redesign in the early 2000s in advance of PGA Tour championship hosting. Quail Hollow has hosted the Wells Fargo Championship every spring since 2003, and the major-rotation hosting includes the 2017 PGA Championship (Justin Thomas won his first major) and the 2025 PGA Championship.
The course plays around 7,600 yards par 71 from the championship markers, with bermuda fairways and a slope in the upper 140s. The closing three holes — fifteen, sixteen, seventeen — are known on the Tour as the "Green Mile" and are considered one of the most-demanding closing stretches in PGA Tour rotation. The sixteenth is a 506-yard par-4 with a creek running along the entire left side; the seventeenth, a 223-yard par-3 across a natural pond, has decided multiple Wells Fargo editions and the 2017 PGA. The eighteenth closes with a 494-yard par-4 with a green set above a lake.
Quail Hollow is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Charlotte business and finance families with multi-generation ties through the club's 1960s founding. The Tour-rotation hosting since 2003 and the major-championship rotation since 2017 are the primary modern institutional identity, and the club has invested in continuous tournament-readiness.
North Carolina Piedmont climate gives Quail Hollow a playing season of March through November, with the firmest conditions in May (Wells Fargo Championship window) and October. Summer humidity compresses mid-day rounds through July and August. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps. The mature deciduous canopy through the property gives the routing its Piedmont parkland character.
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