This year is the last chance to catch the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club. OK, that could just be a technicality. The May 6-12 tournament could return to Charlotte next year, but not with Wells Fargo as title sponsor. And not at Quail Hollow, which will play host to the 2025 PGA Championship.
Due to the tournament’s designation as one of the PGA Tour’s signature, limited-field, $25-million tournaments, Wells Fargo would have needed to ante up a lot more money — the purse was only $9 million in 2022 — to keep its name on the tournament. Instead, the bank pulled out for future years.
As of late April, a site for the Wells Fargo spot on the 2025 PGA Tour schedule had not been made public. The PGA Tour played the Wells Fargo at Eagle Point in Wilmington in 2017, the last year Quail Hollow played host to the PGA Championship.
Various ticket packages were available online. Parking is $20 at three sites with shuttles available to the course.
As always, almost all of the PGA Tour’s best players will be there. PGA Tour rules allow qualified players to opt out of only one of its 70-80-player marquee events.
Though players have until the Friday before the event, stars such as Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Rickie Fowler, Max Home, Hideki Matsuyama, and Jordan Spieth have already committed to be there.
MYRTLE BEACH CLASSIC DEBUTS
Spectators at the PGA Tour’s inaugural Myrtle Beach Classic won’t see Scottie Scheffler, Rory McElroy, Ludvig Aberg or Viktor Hovland.
But they will have the opportunity to see Matt Atkins.
Going head-to-head with the $25-million purse Wells Fargo Championship only three hours away in Charlotte, the Myrtle Beach tournament has been creating in trying to drum up attention for its May 6-12 dates at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club (pictured).
One of the promotions was an 18-hole shootout at TPC Myrtle Beach featuring eight YouTubers and eight non-qualifying pros playing for a spot in the field. Atkins, a former Korn Ferry Tour winner, won the spot.
The shootout was played without fans so the tournament could keep the results under wraps, saving it for a 90-minute YouTube video of its own that was released April 23.
There’s some irony there. New media without the advantage of instant news.
Anyway, Atkins’ victory prevented South Carolina native George Bryan, who has a blockbuster YouTube show with his brother Wesley, from getting the spot. George, who finished second in the shootout, had received a sponsor’s exemption into last year’s PGA Tour tournament in Bermuda.
