Wells Fargo Championship 2012

It's been a few years since I last went to Charlotte's own PGA Tour golf championship, but didn't take much convincing and managed to find tickets on Craigslist from a local seller who turned out to be one of my employer's clients... and they dropped off the tickets at the office front door, can't beat that.


I first went to the tournament in 2007 for the Saturday third round the year Tiger won, and then again the following year for the pro-am on the Wednesday before the first round.

This year we got tickets for the second round on Friday and took a half day from work to catch the afternoon action, which featured Phil Mickelson. Tiger, McIlroy and Fowler (the eventual winner on Sunday) teed off in the morning that day.

They changed the rules recently allowing cell phones on the course, but photos were strictly forbidden during tournament play...

Phil Mickelson lining up his approach on the 8th - Quail Hollow 5/4/2012
... unless you snapped them while no one was looking :-)

11th green at Quail Hollow
We followed Phil around for part of the day, and also watched the groups play through a couple holes, the 7th and the 11th holes.

MetLife blimp above the 14th fairway at Quail Hollow
It was a beautiful day and had a great time watching the pros up close. Looking forward to the scheduled PGA Championship in 2017.

The 14th green at Quail Hollow
- Salud!

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