Quail Hollow is hosting the 2025 PGA Championship, and the word is that it's going to take hitting it long and straight to win the famed Wanamaker Trophy. That includes the final three holes of the course in Charlotte, North Carolina, which is known as the "Green Mile."

The novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said that "artistic originality has only its own self to copy," and if we're adapting that man's words to the world of golf—I'm confident he would have hated this—we can say of the infamous "Green Mile" at Quail Hollow (holes 16,

Quail Hollow's finishing holes were grueling on Day 1, while Rory McIlroy did not look ready to back up his win at Augusta National.