Players rave about it when they come every year, but for the course architecture heads and the peripheral golf community, the glass is very much half empty on this week’s PGA Championship venue. So why is the divide so stark?

While you’re in Charlotte to watch the 2025 PGA Championship, you’re going to need to eat. And while this year, your Championship+ admission ticket includes unlimited food and non-alcoholic beverages, there will be times you’ll want to stray from the golf course to find breakfast, lunch or dinner nearby.

PGA Championship returns to Quail Hollow in Charlotte for the second major of the golf season. This North Carolina course last hosted in 2017 when Justin Thomas won by two strokes, and as luck would have it for J.