The two-time PGA champ prepared at Quail Hollow last week then arrived for the tournament Wednesday night, but is likely going home early after an opening 79.

Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas used a late birdie blitz to grab his first career lead in a major after the first round of the PGA Championship on Thursday while Rory McIlroy struggled in his first major since completing the career Grand Slam.

The world's top 3 players all made the same, horrible score on the 16th hole Thursday at the PGA Championship.

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

The pro Webb Simpson lives near the seventh hole and knows the ins and outs of the course where the P.G.A. Championship will be played.

Stop what you’re doing right now and check the PGA Championship leaderboard, because you may be among the leaders at Quail Hollow. After a strange Thursday, pretty much everybody that’s not a top-10 player in the world is up there.

Chelsea Dantoniom a new assistant pro at Quail Hollow Club and a former tour player, gives Golfweek a course tour and some insider perspective.

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,