2011 Wells Fargo Championship
 Wells Fargo Championship Information:
Location: Quail Hollow Country Club, Charlotte, NC
Date: May 2 - 8, 2011
Defending Champion: Rory McIlroy
2010 Award Money: $6,500,000
Started: 2003 (as the Wachovia Championship); 2009: Quail Hollow Championship
The first week of May, the Wells Fargo Championship brings the PGA Tour to Charlotte, North Carolina. Since its inauguration in 2003, the Championship rapidly became one of the top events on the Tour. From 2004 to 2006, the Wells Fargo Championship ended in a playoff and, additionally, the event is known to have one of the tougher finishes on the PGA Tour, with holes 16, 17, and 18 often ranked among the Tour's toughest holes. Now the four day championship is stroke play based.
The Wells Fargo Championship is 1 of over 45 golf tournaments that makes up the PGA Tour in the United States. This is a magnificent Pete Dye-designed course. The Par 72 course makes it challenging and competitive for even the best players that golf has to offer. The layout at Quail Hollow is one of the longest on Tour, boasting three par 4's over 475 yards in length and a par 3 at 250 yards.
Certain holes are similar to Augusta, with long irons, into undulating and fast greens. The Par 3s are extremely tough where Par is a decent return. The Par 4s and Par 5s are mostly dog leg in nature, but unlike Augusta are split between lefts and rights.
What used to be known as the The Wachovia Championship became The Quail Hollow Championship, and is now known as the Wells Fargo Championship.
The Wells Fargo Championship is sponsored by Wells Fargo, who purchased Wachovia in 2008, necessitating the change from the original name, Wachovia Championship. It has awarded purses of over 5 million dollars to all of its winners. This Professional Golfer’s Association tournament has seen some of the best golf players in the 20th century: Vigay Singh, Tiger Woods and David Toms. Thus far in the championship, American golfers have taken the most trophies.
The PGA player names among the sports betting lines for the Wells Fargo Championship this weekend can make any PGA betting fan’s jaw drop; the tourney, boasts one of the best fields for any non-major tournament.
Woods announced Thursday he will play the Wells Fargo Championship, which begins April 29. Woods has played the Quail Hollow Championship four times, winning in 2007. He finished fourth last year, two shots behind Sean O'Hair.
Among the many accomplished competitors playing in the tourney will be this years US master winner Phil Mickelson, Geoff Ogilvy, Sergio Garcia, Jim Furyk, Vijah Singh and Anthony Kim. It seems everyone wants a tuneup for next weekend’s Players Championship odds.
In 2008 the event was called the Wachovia Championship and golf bettors saw winner Anthony Kim set the tournament record with his 16 under-par score of 272.
In 2009 the tournament had its largest purse ever, $6.5 million, with Sean O’Hair pocketing the highest winner's share ever, $1,170,000, for his efforts.
Quail Hollow Championship Results 2011
 After a silent, one-minute tribute to Seve Ballesteros at 3:08 p.m. Sunday in the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship, when players removed their caps and bowed their heads in honor of the charismatic magician who did wondrous things with a golf ball, incredible things started happening all over Quail Hollow.
In the end, Lucas Glover, who has missed 12 cuts in 31 tournaments and had just six top-10s since winning the 2009 U.S. Open, beat overnight leader and University of Clemson teammate Jonathan Byrd with a par on the first playoff hole. Glover, who eagled the 10th to take the lead at the time, finished with a 69 to win at 15-under-par 273.
"I'm elated, absolutely elated," Glover said. "Against this field and on this golf course and in a tournament of this magnitude, I'm thrilled."
His final hole in regulation summed up the final day. His tee shot was 30 yards left of the fairway and came to rest against a sitting spectator's left hip. After a drop, the ball moved without Glover grounding his club, resulting in no penalty. His second was over the green, his third a chip to 7 feet, his putt to the bottom of the hole.
Quail Hollow Championship Results 2010
 Rory McIlroy is the 2010 Quail Hollow Championship winner. On the final day of the Quail Hollow Championship, McIlroy showed golf fans one dazzling shot after another in a record round that made him the PGA Tour's youngest winner since Tiger Woods.
Rory walks away with $1.2 million for his win. Mickelson earns a cool $702,000, and Angel Cabrera gets $442,000.
Rory ended 15 under par, a course record. Rounds went 72, 73, 66, and an incredible 62 final round. Mickelson was 70, 68, 71, 68 finishing 11 under par. Cabrera went 70, 67, 73, and 68 finishing 10 under.
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