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Truist Championship at Quail Hollow – 2026 Preview

These will be your course and conditions for First round...

Quail Hollow Club by Tim Hagen
https://linkscorner.org/courses/course.php?crz=1667

Quail Hollow Club
Release Date 2006-04-29 : LC_ID # 1667
CRZ Filename: Quail_Hollow_2K6_locked.crz
Cond. - Breezy - MC/FC = 13.0

I played a practice round at mc/fc. Some of the greens are absolutely treacherous, if the ball didn't go in I often three putted, it seemed next to impossible to even cosy the ball up near the hole. The only time you seemed to get a break was if you were lucky enough to get a putt straight up hill, a straight down hill putt was no guarantee.

I shot a 76 and that even included pitching on one hole.

Umm Links play to a par of 72, the course is now a par 71 so we add one stroke, sounds like we are going the wrong way there.

Here's my practice round, yeesh

The round: https://youtu.be/yZsH3jyS6gI

Pre-Tournament_Notes

The First Look - Truist Championship

2026 Truist Championship - Practice Rd


Video link to Practice Rd.
https://youtu.be/jnbY45Kiq3k

Quail Hollow Club by Tim Hagen
https://linkscorner.org/courses/course.php?crz=1667

Quail Hollow Club
Release Date 2006-04-29 : LC_ID # 1667
CRZ Filename: Quail_Hollow_2K6_locked.crz
Cond. - Breezy - MC/FC = 13.0 ??? May want to change to M/FC = 12... Keep an eye out

Pin Placements for your
Practice round..... Final round Pins from last years
PGA Championship
Hole - pin #....
1- 13 --- 10-13
2- 13 --- 11-10
3- 12 --- 12-17*
4- 17 --- 13-13
5- 12 --- 14-11
6- 13 --- 15- 3
7- 14 --- 16-11
8- 9* ---- 17- 1
9- 7 ----- 18-14
* = Closest available Pin

2026 Truist Championship - 1st Rd - Pin Position

Quail Hollow Club by Tim Hagen
https://linkscorner.org/courses/course.php?crz=1667

Quail Hollow Club
Release Date 2006-04-29 : LC_ID # 1667
CRZ Filename: Quail_Hollow_2K6_locked.crz
Cond. - Breezy - MC/MC = 10.2

A diificult first round, as expected the greens provide the courses defences, The slopes can be quite a challenge.

I found myself playing from the fringe often, to take the slopes out of play as much as possible I swapped the chip shot for the pitch, mostly successful but still very little room for error. The course punishes any shot that is not close to perfect.

There are no real gimme holes and many holes where it is easy to drop a shot. My score reflected it with a 73, I felt if I could keep it around par I would be doing well, 5 bogies attest to how easy it is to drop shots and only 4 birdies how hard it is to pick shots up, it often took a great pitch or putt to get a birdie, and even at times to get a par.

Des

dwg wrote: ↑May 5th, 2026, 3:49 am
.......Umm Links play to a par of 72, the course is now a par 71 so we add one stroke, sounds like we are going the wrong way there.

Thank you Des for the comment. It bounced around in my head for a few days till it FINALLY hit me when I was writing up my first round results earlier. So I have an UPDATE to the Scorecard Adjustments...

Look it over and let me know if I got it right this time Thanks

That's how I understood the scoring process. I shot 67, so that becomes -4 instead of -5, which enables us to compare with the pros.

No video again. Too bad, because I had a couple of nice birdies at the end that saved my round.