Ryan Gerard doesn't have quite the same amount of experience playing Quail Hollow as some of the PGA Tour veterans playing in this week's PGA Championship. But the 25-year-old may be as familiar with the Charlotte course's closing hole as anyone.

Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka turned in another poor scorecard at Quail Hollow, the site of this week's PGA Championship.

The last time the PGA Championship came to Quail Hollow Club, in 2017, Ryan Gerard was moving into his freshman dorm at North Carolina. Six months later, Gerard and his Tar Heel teammates found themselves standing on Quail’s 18th tee for what seemed like the hundredth time.

The PGA of America smartly created a mega group for the first two rounds of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, putting together Scheffler, the World No. 1, with the next two men in the rankings, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele.

The PGA Championship put the top three players in the world together for the first time in three years on Thursday and the conversation turned to mud. Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele each had clumps of mud on their golf balls from the middle of the 16th fairway — the hardest hole at Quail Hollow — and saw their shots curve hard to the left,

For the first time in major championship history, the PGA Championship is offering free concessions to fans holding Championship+ daily grounds tickets this week. Under the all-inclusive food and beverage program, fans can grab an entrée, snack, and non-alcoholic drink as many times as they like at on-course concession venues at no extra charge.

The hands-down, number-one best thing about being a kid is that you genuinely don’t know any better. There’s a simple innocence (and sometimes brutal honesty) in being young and carefree, and many adults long for those days as they grow older and more aware of the barriers,

Best PGA Championship 2025 bets include Bryson to win, Rory for top fi, Niemann as top LIV finisher, and Justin Thomas to lead after Round 1 at Quail Hollow.