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.

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.

PGA Championship runs Thursday through Sunday at Charlotte's Quail Hollow. Xander Schauffele won the event last year.

PGA Championship returns to Quail Hollow in Charlotte for the second major of the golf season. This North Carolina course last hosted in 2017 when Justin Thomas won by two strokes, and as luck would have it for J.

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,

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.