COURSE REPORT:
The top players at the Wells Fargo Championship offer their opinions of the layout in Charlotte, N.C.:
Not only is the field of major-championship quality this week, but Quail Hollow Golf Club also measures up to the top venues in golf.
Just ask the world's best. Three-time Masters champion
Phil Mickelson compared it to Augusta National.
"The greens are very similar," said Mickelson, who's playing his first tournament since his latest Masters win. "They're the same grass, very similar speed, very similar slope. ... Last year we had first-cut rough like we had at Augusta, so you had a lot of recovery shots, and I thought with the trees being similar, I thought it had a very similar feel to Augusta."
Lee Westwood said the infrastructure and facilities at Quail Hollow are of major quality, but the course itself could be made even tougher.
"I can imagine the rough gets to 4 or 5 inches around here and it firms out, then you're playing later on in the year when it's hot and the ball is running maybe a little bit more -- because it's a little bit soft out there at the moment -- this would be a really, really tough test," the Englishman said.
Tiger Woods, the 2007 winner at Quail Hollow, thinks it's already plenty tough enough.
"It's very similar to a major championship, especially right now the greens speeds are up, the fairways are running, even though they had rain," Woods said after his Wednesday pro-am. "It's hard to believe the golf course is still playing this fast."