Former Ryder Cup golfer compares Quail Hollow to a Kardashian
'Quail Hollow is like a Kardashian ... It’s very modern, beautiful and well-kept. But it lacks a soul or character.'
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — This week’s PGA Championship venue Quail Hollow has faced plenty of criticism from golf design nerds over the years, but golfer Hunter Mahan took things to a different level.
Speaking to The Athletic’s Gabby Herzig, the former American Ryder Cupper had this to say of the picture-perfect, but perhaps uninspiring championship layout in Charlotte:
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“I guess I would say Quail Hollow is like a Kardashian,” Mahan said. “It’s very modern, beautiful and well-kept. But it lacks a soul or character.”
Oof. It’s hard to say who should be more insulted: The Kardashians or Quail Hollow members?
The general criticism of Quail Hollow is that, despite being a wonderful property and an immaculate course, many of the holes are very similar and golfers leaving the course might be hard-pressed to pick out one or two that stood out from the rest. It simply wears you down with long, nice par 4 after long, nice par 4, after long, nice par 4.
Quail Hollow is one of the only major championship venues that also hosts an annual PGA tour event, meaning players don’t need to do much course preparation this week.
“I thought it was going to feel different just because it was a major championship and I got out on the golf course yesterday, and it felt no different than last year at the Wells Fargo,” Rory McIlroy said Wednesday.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing for keeping the game’s best players comfortable. And with the course playing a very long — and wet — 7,626 yards, there is a great chance the game’s longest hitters and top players will be battling for a major on Sunday afternoon.
“That’s the one thing about this place. I feel like you kind of always know relatively what you’re going to get. It’s just figuring out how the golf course is playing and then going from there type thing,” Justin Thomas said. “By the looks of it, it’s pristine as always.”
Maybe it doesn’t matter what the mansion looks like because, if you throw enough Kardashians inside, something entertaining is bound to happen.
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