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Who won what at Wrexham Snooker League presentation
The 18-year-old, who reached the last 16 of three events in the 2024-25 season, is an up-and-coming player who is already up to 64 in the world rankings. He took past in an exhibition during the Wrexham League presentation night at Llay Miners Welfare and impressed the crowd in his 8-2 victory, with Patricia Murphy refereeing and former world champion Dennis Taylor commentating. Moody won 56-43 against Daz Crofts (War Memorial A) in the opening frame and then rattled off a break of 111 in his 126-0 victory over Tony Griffiths (St Marys B). Another century followed with a 126 clearance in his success over Simon Moulton (Gresford VRC A) and Moody beat Dan Gorton (Gwersyllt Club A) 112-18 with breaks of 44 and 58. Moody then partnered Ross Tomlinson (Gwersyllt Club A) in a doubles match and the duo defeated Mark George and Steven Daniels (Rhos Snooker Club) 79-19, the snooker professional weighing in with a 56 break. There was no stopping Moody who overcame raffle winner Steve Evans 76-14 before making two more centuries in successive frames. He triumphed 126-13 against Liam Roberts (Gwersyllt Club A) with a break of 126 and then made 101 in his 115-12 victory over Russ Jones (Gresford VRC A). Moody had won all eight frames but his 100 per cent record was ended by Matt Roberts (Gwersyllt Club A) who came out on top 67-46 with a great 22 at the end. A second doubles frame completed the order of play with Kevin Lewis and Simon Davies (Gresford VRC A) beating Moody and Gwyn Rogers (Brymbo Cons) 63-56. Lewis made a clearance of 25 to secure success. Moody then presented the awards with Gwersyllt Club A once again crowned league champions for the third year in a row after defending their title. Rhos Snooker Club were runners-up and Gresford VRC A were third. There was more success for Gwersyllt Club A as they won the Presidents Cup with victory in the final over War Memorial A who responded by defeating War Memorial B to clinch the Charisma Cup. Rhos Snooker gained some revenge on Gwersyllt Club A by beating the league champions in the Stan Watkins Cup showpiece, and Brymbo Cons picked up two trophies. They overcame St Marys A and Johnstown Legion to win the Hughie Pritchard Cup and Wrexham Lager Cup. Matt Roberts took the Keith Johnson Individual by defeating Russ Jones, Tony Griffiths triumphed against Ross Tomlinson to win the Ray Williams Individual and Simon Moulton defeated Graeme Jones in the Ralph Jones Individual final. The Ted Pumford Pairs winners were Liam Roberts and Matt Roberts, with Mark Gibbins and Steve Daniels the runners-up, Kevin Lewis and Simon Davies landed the Queensway Pairs with victory over Terry Roberts and Owen Barry, and Eddie Jones Medal (U23s) went to Liam Roberts following his success over Lewis Griffiths. Matt Roberts was the merit victor with 24 wins from 26 games, edging out Mark Gibbins who won 24 of his 28 matches. Roberts also had the highest break with his run of 88, Graeme Jones (72) the runner-up.
New York Times
21-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Max Homa and the cruelest game
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — 'It's hard,' Max Homa said, eyes moving, looking nowhere. 'It's hard just to not want to do this anymore.' We were standing in the breezeway beside Quail Hollow's clubhouse, a spot Homa knows well. Six years ago, in May 2019, he stood right here, processing equal levels of disbelief and self-actualization. Then 28, Homa won his first PGA Tour event, legitimizing what had otherwise been a middling career. Outside Quail's clubhouse that day, fellow tour pros stopped one after another to congratulate him. A few years later, in 2022, Homa walked through here again, this time as the fist-pumping, ripping-and-tearing action star of the U.S. Presidents Cup team. After one particularly raucous afternoon that week, he said that, at long last, he finally felt like he belonged among the game's best. Advertisement Now it's 2025. Homa is 34. He is a six-time winner on the PGA Tour. He has been ranked as high as fifth in the world and played in the Ryder Cup. And yet, even here, even now, this game is as unsparing as ever. 'To be completely honest — I don't know what I'm getting out of this,' Homa said Sunday. 'But it's my job. So I'll keep trying and hopefully something great happens. But yeah, I'm not really sure what's the point.' Homa arrived at last week's PGA Championship with 160-to-1 odds to win. Mostly an afterthought, the result of months spent in deep struggles. He opened with a first-round 2-over 73, playing the part. Then Friday. Some kind of dreamscape. Six birdies and a tap-in eagle on the par-4 14th highlighted a 7-under 64, his best score in 70 career major championship rounds. Homa sat for a 22-minute press conference afterward. Three shots off the lead, fresh off the round of his life, it was tempting to think his fates might once again be aligning. The only line missing on the résumé is major champion. Maybe this was finally it. Then came the weekend. A round of 76 on Saturday, 12 shots worse than the day prior. Homa not only imploded, but spent the afternoon playing alongside Scottie Scheffler; the world's best player, the eventual tournament winner, the guy who finished Saturday eagle-birdie-par-birdie-birdie. Homa signed his card with a faraway stare. A hard day included some overaggressive play, some bad choices, and some bad shots on a hard course. Homa trudged from the scoring area to the driving range. He tipped over a bucket of balls and hit 'em into a fading sky. Walking off an empty range, he said, 'Today just beat me.' And Sunday. Homa pulled into the parking lot a little before 9 a.m., nearly six hours before the leaders' tee times. Back to the range. Back to the course. A round of 77 — four pars, five birdies, seven bogeys, two double-bogeys. Homa missed left, he missed long, he missed everywhere. On the third hole, after pumping a drive into the trees, he laid up short of the green. Putting an easy approach in the right greenside rough, Homa reached back and flung his wedge forward, chucking it in the general direction of the green, sending it bounding down the fairway. Advertisement Come day's end, less than 48 hours removed from that Friday 64, following a week of extremes, Homa stood despondent, sounding like a man ready to walk away from it all. He pushed sweat off his forehead and said: 'I've never been good at just saying f— it, but I'm getting pretty close. To be honest, I'd really just rather hang out with my kid.' This is what the game can do. Golf, perhaps more than any other sport, has a way of most heavily taxing those who love it. When Homa tossed that club on Sunday, the mini fit of rage made for a kitschy little video clip of a player reaching a boiling point. What gets left out in such moments is all that comes before it. Homa has had a trying year. There was an equipment change, a switch to a new swing coach and a plummet in the rankings. His longtime caddie and childhood friend, Joe Greiner, ended their partnership amid the strain of shabby results. Worst of all, though, perhaps? A search for the one thing he's supposed to control. Every swing. Around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, a little before his tee time at the PGA, Homa pulled back an iron and sent a ball sailing high and pure into the Quail Hollow driving range. Behind him, John Scott Rattan, his swing coach, stood holding a phone a few inches from his belt, recording a video. 'Did you get that one?' Homa asked. The two dipped their heads, looking down at the screen. Both nodded. That swing? It was a good one; one to leave on. Exactly what they'd been working toward. It was October 17 when Homa first reached out to Rattan. A text message, clear out of the blue. Rattan read it and, after spitting a stunned expletive or two, typed a response saying, yes, he'd be thrilled to work with Homa. Rattan is in his ninth year as director of instruction at Congressional Country Club, a top-100 course in Bethesda, Md. He works with some tour pros on the side, including current clients Stewart Cink, Joseph Bramlett and Danny Walker, among others. Advertisement A variety of common ties connected Homa and Rattan. Homa knows Cink from their time together at the Ryder Cup, when Cink was an assistant captain. Rattan, additionally, is friendly with Homa's trainer, his physical therapist, and Greiner. The two began working together. All this time later, Rattan still has reams of video clips from their first session together. 'It's funny,' Rattan says now, 'when someone as good as Max asks you to work for him, everyone says, 'Congratulations, that's awesome!' and it's like, no, you don't understand, this is going to be really hard. It's not like a player goes looking for a new teacher because he's playing great. That's never the phone call. It's only when they're really struggling, when they don't feel good. They need help and they might not even know why.' Perhaps more than any other sport, these are the psychosomatic cycles of golf. Find something. Lose it. Search for it. Suffer. Find something. Success. Happiness. Wait, it's gone. Why? What happened? Oh, no. Lost again. Another search. Torment. Rinse. Repeat. It happens. Sometimes over the course of a single round. Sometimes over days and weeks. Sometimes for far, far longer. No one is immune, even the best in the world. To fix a golf swing is to marry a series of changes with reasons to justify them. If improvements come, ride them. When they don't, keep looking. In March, more than two years removed from his last PGA Tour win (2023 Farmers Insurance Open), Homa shot an opening-round 79 at the Players Championship. The next day, following a fourth straight missed cut, he offered an agonizing look inside. 'It's frustrating because it's like you're in a very toxic relationship,' he said. 'I might be the toxic one, but it's still toxic.' In the midst of Homa's move from Greiner to veteran caddie Bill Harke, he and Rattan went back to work on a broken swing, but little changed. Advertisement One month later, following a 70th-place finish at the RBC Heritage, Rattan took a three-day trip to Phoenix. In the time since they started working together, Homa posted an outlier 12th-place finish at the Masters, but nothing felt sustainable. No direction. No solutions. Rattan watched as Homa hit ball after ball, growing only more and more frustrated. 'A really tough Tuesday morning,' Rattan remembers. The two took a break. Homa stopped swinging and started talking. Rattan asked what bothered him most. Homa unloaded frustrations about his back swing, about how his body turned. 'My old back swing was so easy,' he told Rattan. 'OK, let me see it,' Rattan responded. 'I just did this,' Homa said, drawing the club backward, 'and this and this.' Rattan stopped him, damn-near interrupting. 'That's it. That's what we've been talking about. Why don't you do that?' Homa stood over the ball and unloaded a few swings. Good, comfortable strikes. Rattan had already watched endless video of Homa's swing circa 2023, back when he first cracked the top 10 of the world rankings, and instantly recognized what he saw. When it comes to Homa, if the club face is a little more closed at takeaway, and his back swing is a little longer, and he has more time to get his hands out in front of him on the downswing and at impact — the magic happens. Better contact. Better control. An on-plane path. 'Max's ability to repeat a motion in rhythm, in sequence — that's what makes him great,' Rattan says. 'Doing these things brought out that sequence. You could see it right away.' It all clicked. Like that, whatever other swing thoughts crowded his brain moved aside. Rattan recorded swing after swing after swing. Max Homa looking an awful lot like Max Homa. Those clips are all still on Rattan's phone. The good ones are saved as 'Favorites.' This was only three weeks ago. Having something resembling a plan, Homa shot 66-68-70-71 in Philadelphia two weeks ago and finished T30 at the Truist Championship, his best tour-stop finish since The Sentry (T26) in early January. Progress. Momentum. Something to finally feel good about. After his second-round 64 at Quail Hollow, Homa said he has always imagined swing changes being 'some grand thing, like something I've never done before.' What Rattan did was give him permission to do what felt natural, instead of tacking one tweak on top of another, like clay lumped atop clay. Advertisement 'The goal of the teacher or coach is to empower,' Rattan said. 'It's so much more powerful if it's him saying, 'Hey, I'm gonna get my hands out in front of me and I'm gonna do this,' instead of me saying, 'Hey, what if you get your hand out in front of you and try this.' It's his swing. It needs to be his idea.' The plan seemed to come together so perfectly last week. This was what they worked toward. 'It's been difficult,' Homa lamented last Friday, sounding thankful, 'because I felt like I was so broken.' He didn't sound like a man about to lose a golf tournament by 17 strokes. Homa and Rattan put in a few days of work in Charlotte last week before the start of the PGA. They felt good about things. Rattan left for the early parts of the tournament, tending to his day job at Congressional. He gave lessons to some members on Friday as, 400 miles away, Homa played maybe the best round of his professional career. Rattan checked his phone between lessons, seeing a scorecard turn red with circles. A stream of text messages followed, saying that Homa had praised him during a press conference. 'No one has any idea how hard Max works,' Rattan said later that day by phone, driving home from the club. 'He deserves this payoff.' Rattan flew to Charlotte the following morning, coming in sideways through some nasty Saturday morning storms. The pre-round range session that day was sharp. It sure felt like it was going to be a weekend to remember. But this is the other side of golf. For all the waxy stories of tournament winners overcoming this or proving that, so many others out there are in the stench. Far more bad than good. The game is a minefield, every step more precarious than the last — self-discipline, self-confidence and self-delusion in all directions. There's no single explanation why Homa, one of golf's most transparent players, is deep in the throes of a callous game's cruelty, but he's knee-deep in it. Yes, he has nearly $30 million in career on-course earnings and is in what can feel like every other commercial on Golf Channel. But he's down to 161st in the world, per DataGolf, and 34th in the American Ryder Cup standings. There's a vast juxtaposition between his place and his play. Advertisement Walking outside the ropes on Sunday, with Homa 5-over through 11 holes, Rattan watched Homa push his tee into the ground on Quail Hollow's 218-yard par-3 12th hole. 'There's progress, if you know where to look,' Rattan said. 'That's easier said than done.' Homa hit a shot to 22 feet. A birdie, one followed by bogeys on four of the next five holes. Homa says that even while he's working to find parts of his swing that felt most comfortable when at his best, he isn't searching for his former self. He isn't trying to reproduce an exact swing from an exact time. He's smart enough to know that's impossible. 'I wouldn't say I'm trying to recapture anything,' he said. Instead, he's trying to find what works now. As it stands, once considered a likely lock for this fall's U.S. Ryder Cup team, Homa isn't even qualified for the summer's final two majors. He could be on the verge of missing a major for the first time since 2019, and at this rate, is fighting just to make the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs. Even while assured PGA Tour status through 2028, he's getting awfully close to where he started all those years ago, as a middling pro trying to prove himself. Before heading into the clubhouse to grab his bags Sunday, Homa said he'd likely get back to the practice range this week, even though, after what was at Quail Hollow, he doesn't seem to know why. In truth, he planned to go back to work because it's all he knows. The cycle never stops. Hey, maybe he'll find that swing, right? 'I guess these things just get easier with time,' Homa said Sunday. 'You give it a few days, and you find some fire again.' (Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; Photos: Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images)
Axios
19-05-2025
- Climate
- Axios
2025 PGA Championship in photos
Scottie Scheffler won the 107th PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte on Sunday. Why it matters: This was the second time Charlotte hosted the PGA Championship, one of golf's four majors. For Scheffler, now a three-time major winner, it was his first time hoisting the Wanamaker Trophy. It was his first solo major win in Charlotte (he was part of Team USA's win during the Presidents Cup here in 2022). Catch up quick: Charlotte started off the week soggy. Fans weren't allowed on the course Monday due to the weather and storms caused delays throughout the week. By Sunday it was a runaway for Scheffler. The No. 1 player in the world, reminded everyone why he's the best player on the planet, shooting -11 under par for the four-round, 72-hole championship. By the numbers: A fun stat to share with your friends and coworkers — this was Scheffler's 15th PGA Tour win. Since 1950, only two other players have snagged 15 wins faster: Tiger Woods in 3 years and 32 days. Jack Nicklaus in 3 years and 45 days. Now Scheffler in 3 years and 94 days. Between the lines: Sine Charlotte hosted its first major in 2017, roughly $40 million has been invested into Quail Hollow Club, according to Johnny Harris, the club's president. That's not just the golf course and practice areas, Harris tells me, but facilities, roads and utilities as well. What's next: Harris is interested in bringing more major events to Quail Hollow, in addition to being an annual stop on the PGA Tour with the Truist Championship. "We will continue to pursue international and national events like a Ryder Cup, like a PGA Championship and some of the others," Harris says. But his main priority is bringing the best golfers in the world to the Carolinas. Here we look at the PGA Championship in photos:
USA Today
17-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
What is the Green Mile? It's where evil and golf really do co-exist at Quail Hollow Club
What is the Green Mile? It's where evil and golf really do co-exist at Quail Hollow Club Show Caption Hide Caption The Green Mile at Quail Hollow threatens all contenders The Green Mile, the closing three holes at Quail Hollow Club, is one of the toughest finishing stretches on the PGA Tour. Quail Hollow Club's "Green Mile" (holes 16, 17, and 18) is considered one of the toughest stretches in golf. The Green Mile features water hazards, elevation changes, bunkers, and firm greens. For the Presidents Cup, the Green Mile will be played as holes 13-14-15 to ensure players reach it in the match-play format. The five-hole stretch leading up to the Green Mile includes two risk-reward holes also guarded by water. (Editor's note: This story was written in advance of the 2022 Presidents Cup by Golfweek/USA Today reporter Steve DiMeglio, who died from cancer at the age of 63 earlier this year.) If you've been named after a novel written by horror master Stephen King, there must be an abundance of chilling, eerie features associated with your existence. Even if the terror in question resides among the soft, rolling hills of a peaceful golf course in the Queen City. Seriously, can evil and golf really co-exist? At Quail Hollow Club they certainly do. During a 1,200-plus-yard stroll covering three holes – that would be the 16th, 17th and 18th – danger, horror and angst refuse to be disguised at the annual home of the PGA Tour's Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. While it is certainly not as fatal as depicted in the 1999 movie adaption of the same name starring Tom Hanks, where death row inmates take their final steps to the execution chamber on a floor painted a dull green, the dreaded emerald sweep of land at Quail Hollow leaves players gasping for air and heartily exhaling when all is said and done. In short, the journey is likely to be a good walk spoiled. That will surely be the case at the 14th edition of the Presidents Cup, where the U.S. will try to continue its dominance of the Internationals. And organizers of the biennial clash have tossed in a major kicker concerning the trifecta of terror. More on that later. 'It's got to be one of the toughest stretches in golf,' Brandt Snedeker said. 'There's no way to miss them. There's no bail-out on any of the holes really. 'You just have to suck it up and get through it.' Or as Quail Hollow member and 2012 U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson said: 'I've thought about this many times. I can't think of a three-hole stretch, including the major championships, that is tougher than the Green Mile.' How tough is it? Let's add another movie reference and call on Clubber Lang's prediction in Rocky II: Pain. Consider: Each hole of the white-knuckle stretch features dangerous water hazards, potentially puzzling elevation changes, strategically placed bunkers and Bermuda greens that are not to be messed with. This was the result of a major renovation completed ahead of the 2016 Wells Fargo Championship, which included all 18 greens being rebuilt, greens and tee boxes shifted, more than 100 trees removed and length added to the layout. In five editions of the Wells Fargo Championship since the makeover, the 494-yard, par-4 18th has ranked as the toughest hole in the tournament three times and second once, while the 217-yard, par-3 17th was the toughest hole in 2019 and was never worse than sixth on the list of menacing holes. The par-4 506-yard 16th? It was the third toughest hole in three of those contests. And yes, the field average for each hole was over-par each tournament, including in 2021 when the 18th played to a 4.456 average, making it the second toughest par-4 on the PGA Tour that year. 'Those are three really brutal finishing holes,' Aussie Adam Scott said. 'If you can survive those holes and win, you've certainly proved that to yourself because they're so demanding. There is no breather.' With that, here's a quick snapshot of each hole: 16th hole: Par 4 The 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow | Hole 16 Take a bird's-eye view of hole 16 at Quail Hollow, the iconic course set to host the 2025 PGA Championship. The hole could be tipped out to around 530 yards. The green was shifted 80 yards to the left, right smack up against a large lake. A sizeable, deep fairway bunker on the right must be avoided on the downhill tee shot. Bunkers fronting the green are best to be avoided. 'The tee shot isn't overly difficult, but then you get to your second shot and see a lot of water. In the right conditions, you can sort of attack. But it's rarely the right conditions,' said Justin Thomas, who won the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club. 17th hole: par 3 The 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow | Hole 17 Take a bird's-eye view of hole 17 at Quail Hollow, the iconic course set to host the 2025 PGA Championship. The hole could be stretched to 235 yards. The tee shot is over water, with only land to the right side of the green offering you safety from the H2O. The green is usually firm – OK, it's nearly concrete at times – which means even well-struck shots to back pins can bounce and then roll into the water. 'Even hitting a fairly good shot at 17, you can still hit it in the water. All you're trying to do when it's playing long is hit the green. And if the wind is blowing, you have to make sure to hit land,' Spain's Sergio Garcia said. (Side note: Thomas' better-than-good 7-iron in the final round of the PGA Championship basically sealed his victory). 18th hole: par 4 The 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow | Hole 18 Take a bird's-eye view of hole 18 at Quail Hollow, the iconic course set to host the 2025 PGA Championship. A creek and heavy rough runs down the entire left side of the hole while a dense collection of trees and problematic bunkers protect the right side of the fairway. The tee shot is downhill and the green is slightly raised. 'There's no bailout on the hole and you just have to come up with your best. You can't ease up after a great drive. It's just one tough hole,' said Aussie Jason Day, the victor of the 2018 Wells Fargo Championship. In summation of the stretch, we offer USA's Rickie Fowler's take (he won his first PGA Tour title in the 2012 Wells Fargo Championship): 'You just have to buckle up and survive.' That's what Rory McIlroy did in 2021, the most recent time the club played host to the Wells Fargo Championship. In the final round, McIlroy birdied the 14th and 15th holes to take a two-stroke advantage to the start of the Green Mile. He made a big mistake as he started to think how great it would be to see his wife, Erica, and 8-month-old daughter, Poppy, behind the 18th green and celebrate with them on their first Mother's Day. He survived the 16th and 17th with textbook pars to maintain a two-shot lead. But then he set off alarm bells when he pulled his tee shot on the 18th just to the left of the creek and onto a sidehill of nasty rough. He was going to try and slash the ball to safety with a lob wedge but his caddie, Harry Diamond, talked him into taking a penalty drop. McIlroy did and from 200 yards found the green with an 8-iron and two-putted for the one-shot win. It was his first triumph in 553 days. And McIlroy, who won his first PGA Tour title at Quail Hollow in 2010, became the only three-time winner of the event. 'Those closing three holes are pretty tough, especially with the crosswinds out there,' McIlroy said. 'I made it hard for myself, but hit a great third shot into the 18th there and was able to two-putt and get the job done. 'It's a tough stretch, one of the toughest stretches that we play all year. I think 17 is the most difficult of the closing stretch. Especially off that back tee, you're raised up and you've got that very skinny green. On 16, you have to be aggressive off the tee. You have to take on that bunker on the right and try to get it down there as far as you can. It's a long enough hole. And the same thing on 18. I think aggressiveness off the tee; you can reward yourself with a little shorter iron shot in and be able to take on something a little bit more on the green. 'I've had my fair share of good runs on that stretch and bad runs.' The Green Mile that will shine the brightest – for the good or bad. 'A lot happens on those three holes,' USA's Jordan Spieth said. 'That is where you go to see some triumph and disaster.'
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
PGA Championship bringing financial boom to Charlotte
Tens of thousands of golf fans are in town for this week's PGA Championship in south Charlotte and they were out in full force for the first round on Thursday. Channel 9's Joe Bruno spoke to fans who are enjoying the world-class golf at Quail Hollow Golf Club. 'Oh, it's fantastic, all the different cultures, different people; it is wonderful,' fan Nat Gorham said. RELATED: PGA Championship brings business, spotlight to local suppliers Fans are also praising the course's conditions. 'The course is immaculate. It's great it drains well. The rain doesn't really affect it much,' Reece Dorton said. 'You can't ask for a better golf course to play on.' The large crowds are also bringing in tons of extra cash for local businesses. Back in 2017, the event brought in 100 million dollars of economic impact, according to the CRVA. Tournament officials are hoping to surpass that as the world descends on Charlotte to watch the top golfers at Quail Hollow. Charlotte is counting on those out-of-towners to spend big while here. In 2017, hotel demand was up 50 percent compared to the same period the year before. And AirBnb said at the time, the Friday of the tournament was the biggest night ever in the city for guest arrivals It's a hard ticket to get. Passes will run you a couple of hundred dollars if you don't already have one. But at least, unlike the last PGA Championship, all food and non-alcoholic drinks are included. The PGA Championship follows the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow in 2022. The 200 thousand attendees that year brought in more than 130 million to our economy. Fans hope the Queen City keeps landing big golf events 'It brings more attention,' Dorton said. 'I've been here all my life and I think this brings great attention and economy to the city." Nearly half of the attendees of the Presidents Cup stayed at some point overnight, with more than 145-thousand hotel rooms sold during that 6-day event. Charlotte's figures for the PGA Championship will be released in a couple of months. (WATCH BELOW: Fans, golfers take on PGA Championship practice rounds after Monday's washout)
