The 2025 PGA Championship returns to Quail Hollow in Charlotte for the second major of the golf season. This North Carolina course last hosted in 2017 when Justin Thomas won by two strokes, and as luck would have it for J.T., he's playing some of his best golf of the last few years entering this edition of the tournament.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There was a moment during Rory McIlroy’s Wednesday press conference at Quail Hollow that illustrated how he has morphed from a man who needs to a man who wants.

Only one other — Sergio Garcia — played the Masters more times before winning. No other player went 11 years before getting the final leg of the Grand Slam. The emotion pouring out of McIlroy that Sunday at Augusta National captured the essence of dreams coming true.

Rory McIlroy's start to 2025 is impressing his fellow pros as they prepare for the US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, a course the Northern Irishman has won at four times.

Masters champion Rory McIlroy is heading Down Under for the first time in more than a decade to play the Australian Open on Melbourne’s famed sandbelt courses for the next two years.