The PGA Tour is back in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club. The 2022 edition was forced to TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm due to the staging of the Presidents Cup at QHC later in the year.
Max Homa took home the trophy in Maryland last season, however, Rory McIlroy is the latest winner at Quail Hollow.
McIlroy is making is first start on Tour since missing the weekend at Augusta National nearly a month ago.
World Nos. 1 and 2, Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler, are taking the week off. Every player is allowed to miss one designated event this season, and they’ve decided to skip the North Carolina stop.
Golf course
Quail Hollow Club | 7,538 yards | Par 71
Course history
Quail Hollow Club – Course History for the #WellsFargoChampionship
-Includes average finish position and Strokes Gained per round since 2017
-6th most predictive annual course
-No Wells Fargo event here in 2017, 2020 and 2022
-2017 data is from the PGA Championship held here… pic.twitter.com/c2I2oe4vnL
— Ron Klos (@PGASplits101) May 1, 2023
Betting preview
Odds
| Player | Odds | Player | Odds |
| Rory McIlroy | (+700) | Sungjae Im | (+2500) |
| Patrick Cantlay | (+1200) | Max Homa | (+2500) |
| Xander Schauffele | (+1400) | Jason Day | (+2500) |
| Tony Finau | (+1400) | Sam Burns | (+3000) |
| Viktor Hovland | (+1800) | Tyrrell Hatton | (+3500) |
| Jordan Spieth | (+2000) | Rickie Fowler | (+3500) |
| Cameron Young | (+2000) | Sahith Theegala | (+4000) |
| Matt Fitzpatrick | (+2200) | Tom Kim | (+4500) |
| Justin Thomas | (+2200) | Tommy Fleetwood | (+5500) |
| Collin Morikawa | (+2200) | Shane Lowry | (+5500) |
Rory McIlroy (+700)
This tournament may be renamed the “Rory McIlroy Invitational” by the time he retires. In 10 starts at this event when it has been held at Quail Hollow, McIlroy has nine top 25s, eight top 10s and three wins.
In 2021, McIlroy missed the cut at the Masters and went on to win the Wells Fargo in his very next start.
Jason Day (+2500)
Like McIlroy, Jason Day hasn’t played since the Masters. His week in Georgia started off great but ended with a final-round 80. Before a T-39 finish at the year’s first major, Day rattled off eight straight top-20 performances, including five top 10s.
Before missing the cut at Quail Hollow in 2021, the Aussie finished 24th in 2019 and won in 2018.
Rickie Fowler (+3500)
Rickie Fowler has loved him some Quail Hollow over the last several years. Before a missed cut in 2021, Fowler finished fourth in 2019, 21st in 2018 and fourth in 2016. At the 2017 PGA Championship staged in Charlotte, he finished fifth. Fowler won the event in 2012.
The 34-year-old has his game back, as he has finished inside the top 15 in three straight stroke-play starts.
Viktor Hovland
Hovland only has one start at Quail Hollow, a third-place finish in 2021.
A tough Saturday at the RBC Heritage derailed his great start, and he eventually tied for 59th. In his three previous stroke-play starts before Harbour Town, Hovland finished T-7, T-3 and T-10.
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