In 2025, the road to Charlotte winds through Port Saint Lucie.
This weekend, 312 club pros will step out of their shops and away from the lesson tee for a few days to vie for the chance to earn one of 20 coveted berths in the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C. In order to get a major championship start – and, who knows, maybe steal the show like Michael Block did at Oak Hill in 2023 – they will have to outlast their peers around a freshly renovated venue.
This year’s PGA Professional Championship is a homecoming of sorts, held at PGA Golf Club, the 54-hole facility about 45 minutes north of the Palm Beaches and owned by the eponymous organization. Although the PGA name appears on other facilities around the country and world (including PGA Frisco in Texas, which is licensed by the PGA of America), PGA G.C. is the only one the 109-year-old organization owns outright…