Every hole at Quail Hollow ranked easiest to hardest for the 2025 PGA Championship
Every hole at Quail Hollow ranked easiest to hardest for the 2025 PGA Championship
Which is the hardest hole at Quail Hollow Club for the 2025 PGA Championship? And which is the easiest? To help guess how things might shake out this week in Charlotte, North Carolina, we can look to the past.
Quail Hollow – ranked as one of the top 100 modern courses in the U.S. – has a long history of hosting PGA Tour events and other top-tier competitions. The site of the 2017 PGA Championship won by Justin Thomas and the 2022 Presidents Cup won by the American side, the club also hosted a PGA Tour event from 1969 through 1979, the PGA Tour Champions from 1983 through 1989, and the PGA Tour again most years since 2003.
But the course has undergone extensive renovation over the decades since it opened in 1961. Originally designed by George Cobb, the course received some changes in 1986 by Arnold Palmer. It has since been overhauled by Tom Fazio in series of renovations.
To develop a better understanding of how the course might play this week, Golfweek looked at the past three PGA Tour events there. Quail Hollow most recently hosted what was then known as the Wells Fargo Championship, now the Truist Championship, in 2021, 2023 and 2024 (the event was moved in 2022 because of renovations ahead of the Presidents Cup).
To compare holes, we took the average score of each hole in those three most recent Tour events. By comparing how each hole played in relation to its par, we have compiled the following ranking of the holes, starting with the easiest and moving to the most difficult. If history provides any insight, it's that players better hold on for the closing three holes, known as the Green Mile.
Quail Hollow No. 15 (ranked 18th most difficult)
Par: 5
Yards: 577
Scoring average: 4.595
Relation to par: -0.405
No. 7 (ranked 17th)
Par: 5
Yards: 546
Scoring average: 4.64
Relation to par: -0.36
No. 10 (ranked 16th)
Par: 5
Yards: 592
Scoring average: 4.676
Relation to par: -0.324
No. 14 (ranked 15th)
Par: 4
Yards: 344
Scoring average: 3.757
Relation to par: -0.243
No. 8 (ranked 14th)
Par: 4
Yards: 346
Scoring average: 3.78
Relation to par: -0.22
No. 4 (ranked 13th)
Par: 3
Yards: 184
Scoring average: 3.007
Relation to par: 0.007
No. 5 (ranked 12th)
Par: 4
Yards: 449
Scoring average: 4.055
Relation to par: 0.055
No. 13 (ranked 11th)
Par: 3
Yards: 205
Scoring average: 3.078
Relation to par: 0.078
No. 2 (ranked 10th)
Par: 4
Yards: 452
Scoring average: 4.157
Relation to par: 0.157
No. 6 (ranked 9th)
Par: 3
Yards: 249
Scoring average: 3.17
Relation to par: 0.17
No. 12 (ranked 8th)
Par: 4
Yards: 456
Scoring average: 4.173
Relation to par: 0.173
No. 3 (ranked 7th)
Par: 4
Yards: 483
Scoring average: 4.185
Relation to par: 0.185
No. 9 (ranked 6th)
Par: 4
Yards: 530
Scoring average: 4.191
Relation to par: 0.191
No. 1 (ranked 5th)
Par: 4
Yards: 505
Scoring average: 4.203
Relation to par: 0.203
No. 11 (ranked 4th)
Par: 4
Yards: 462
Scoring average: 4.214
Relation to par: 0.214
No. 16 (ranked 3rd)
Par: 4
Yards: 529
Scoring average: 4.217
Relation to par: 0.217
No. 17 (ranked 2nd)
Par: 3
Yards: 223
Scoring average: 3.23
Relation to par: 0.23
No. 18 (ranked 1st)
Par: 4
Yards: 494
Scoring average: 4.42
Relation to par: 0.42
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