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."

Quail Hollow is a staple on the PGA Tour for a reason. Founded by Jimmy Harris in 1959 on pasture land inherited by his mother, Quail Hollow gradually established itself as a place of note in the professional golf community because of its internal efforts to become one.

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,