Brutal weather threatens PGA Championship mayhem this week at one of Rory McIlroy's favorite courses

There won't beryllium immoderate spectators for Monday's signifier rounds astatine the PGA Championship successful North Carolina, wherever a week of rainfall promises to complicate things for players astatine Quail Hollow Club extracurricular Charlotte.

In summation to a fewer inches of precipitation, Accuweather is besides predicting dense thunderstorms successful the country with temperatures successful the debased 70s Fahrenheit (20s Celsius)

The PGA of America announced that immoderate summons holders for Monday's signifier rounds tin usage their passes Tuesday oregon Wednesday, erstwhile rainfall forecasts are already threatening preparations for the season's 2nd major.

Fans are peculiarly focused Rory McIlory, who is coming disconnected his caller Masters triumph successful Augusta to play astatine a people wherever he's already won 4 tournaments, including past year's Wells Fargo Championship.

McIlroy was the astir fashionable subordinate this week astatine the Truist Championship successful Flourtown, Pennsylvania.

'They're precise enthusiastic,' McIlroy said of the Philadelphia-area fans. 'They're loud. They're relentless successful presumption of similar ... I indispensable person heard my sanction a cardinal times this week.'

McIlroy said entering the week that helium was 'excited to get backmost to being a golfer' and fig retired wherever his crippled is astatine entering the 2nd large of the year, the PGA Championship. Consider that task complete.

'I deliberation I'm successful a bully place,' the Northern Irishman said Sunday. 'I didn't consciousness similar I played each that good this week, I inactive finished seventh. Even my -- what I consciousness is my atrocious golf, I'm inactive determination oregon thereabouts.

'A mates small improvements and small tweaks, particularly going to a spot I emotion similar Quail Hollow, and I consciousness similar I'm successful a truly bully spot.'

McIlroy changeable successful reddish figures each week, capped by Sunday's 2-under 68 with 16 pars and 2 birdies. He did not marque a bogey oregon worse implicit his last 28 holes of the tournament, but thought helium missed respective chances to ascent the leaderboard.

Now helium turns his attraction to Quail Hollow, which is known for brutally pugnacious 16th, 17th and 18th holes, not to notation immoderate treacherous h2o hazards.

The signature spread is the 17th, a peninsula greenish that requires a transportation of 195 yards from the backmost tees. With a steadfast green, players person to beryllium cautious with backmost pin positions truthful the shot doesn´t tally disconnected the backmost into the water. The fashionable miss is to the right, which leaves a pugnacious up-and-down.

And the 18th isn't overmuch better.

One of the strongest closing holes, players indispensable debar a bunker connected the close and a creek that meanders down the near broadside of the hole, with a steep slope to the near of the creek. The 2nd changeable is uphill with bunkers close and the creek to the left.