Quail Hollow Championship Lets The Madness Begin

The Quail Hollow Championship 2010 has kicked off, and ordinarily a golf tournament would be about the contest and the skill of the players. There is an incredible amount of attention concerning Tiger Woods, but Tiger isn’t in the top ten on the leader board; he is not even close. The winner gets over $ 1.5 million in payday cash, nothing to sneeze at.

Quail Hollow Championship 2010

It didn’t used to be called the Quail Hollow Championship. The tournament was the Wachovia Championship (Wachovia was purchased by Wells Fargo, and it got changed to the Quail Hollow Championship) up until 2009. It is played at the Quail Hollow Club, a notoriously difficult course in Charlotte, North Carolina. Phil Mickelson is trying to win it, which the Masters champions of the last two years have failed to do, according to the PGA website.

OK, let’s get the Tiger Woods business out of the way

Since golf coverage these days is about an errant philanderer and not sport, let’s get on with it. Tiger Woods finished, though he’s in danger of not making the cut, with a two over par. He’s currently tied for 102nd place. He sent shots into the water, and didn’t win the Masters by the way. (Though he did shoot an 11 under, which is still pretty good.)

Who is in the lead?

The current leader is Bo Van Pelt, according to the PGA leaderboard, with a 7 under par. He sank seven birdies. The next closest is Billy Mayfair, at four under par, who also had seven birdies but three bogeys to go with them. Current Masters Champion Phil Mickelson is tied for 12th with a two under par, having sank a modest brace of birdies. It’s only the first round of the Quail Hollow Championship 2010, so we shall see how this plays out.

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