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Written by Adam Stanley<\/p>\n
The Truist Championship returns to its usual home, the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a one-year hiatus.<\/p>\n
The return of the Truist Championship to Quail Hollow also marks the return of Rory McIlroy<\/a> to the PGA TOUR after his Masters win in April, becoming just the fourth golfer in history to go back-to-back at Augusta National.<\/p>\n The final week prior to the PGA Championship and the second major of the year sees most of the TOUR\u2019s best teeing it up as some serious major prep.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s everything else you need to know as the TOUR returns to Quail Hollow.<\/p>\n FIELD NOTES: McIlroy returns to some happy hunting ground. McIlroy has won at Quail Hollow four times in his career, including 2024, the last time the Truist Championship was played in Charlotte. McIlroy has played a fairly limited schedule so far in 2026, but, along with his Masters victory, he also has a T2 at The Genesis Invitational. \u2026 After his wire-to-wire victory at the Cadillac Championship, Cameron Young<\/a> is back in action. Young has had a spectacular start to his 2026 campaign with two wins \u2013 including at THE PLAYERS Championship \u2013 and five top-10 finishes in nine events. \u2026 Despite McIlroy\u2019s dominance at this event, there has never been a player who has successfully defended his title. Sepp Straka<\/a>, who won by two last year in Philadelphia, is hoping to change that. Straka has three top 10s so far this season, including last week at the Cadillac Championship. He finished T8 the last time the Truist was played at Quail Hollow. \u2026 Matt Fitzpatrick<\/a> returns to action after he and brother Alex (who is also in the field of the Truist Championship after finishing T9 at the Cadillac Championship) won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. It was Fitzpatrick\u2019s third win of 2026 and second in a row. No golfer has won three PGA TOUR events in a row since 2017. \u2026 In all, seven of the top 10 golfers in the Official World Golf Ranking \u2013 including Fitzpatrick, Young and McIlroy \u2013 are teeing it up at Quail Hollow. That includes Xander Schauffele<\/a>, who was runner-up in Charlotte in both 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n HIGHEST-RANKED PLAYERS IN THE FIELDWorld RankingFedExCup2. Rory McIlroy2. Matt Fitzpatrick3. Matt Fitzpatrick3. Cameron Young4. Cameron Young5. Jacob Bridgeman5. Justin Rose6. Si Woo Kim7. Tommy Fleetwood7. Akshay Bhatia9. Xander Schauffele8. Chris Gotterup10. J.J. Spaun9. Rory McIlroy11. Chris Gotterup10. Ludvig \u00c5berg12. Robert MacIntyre11. Sepp Straka13. Sepp Straka12. Xander Schauffele<\/p>\n SPONSOR EXEMPTIONS: Tony Finau<\/a> will tee it up at the Truist Championship looking for a springtime spark to his season. Finau has notched two top-20 results so far this year. His best result at the Truist Championship came last year when he finished T15. Finau finished T19 at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow last year. \u2026 Max Homa<\/a> is back in action after playing the Cadillac Championship last week as well. His best finish this year was a T9 at the Masters. Homa returns to Quail Hollow, where he\u2019s had so much success in his career \u2013 two wins and two other top-10 finishes in Charlotte. \u2026 Mackenzie Hughes<\/a> and Webb Simpson<\/a> will bring some local flair to the Truist Championship as they\u2019re both residents of the Quail Hollow area. Simpson is playing for the first time since he withdrew from the Valero Texas Open. He has two career top-five finishes at the Truist Championship\u2026 Hughes, meanwhile, is eager for a kickstart to his campaign. Hughes \u2013 who lost in a playoff at the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic last year, which is played alongside the Truist Championship on the TOUR\u2019s schedule \u2013 has missed three straight cuts and replaced his long-time caddie, Julien Trudeau, a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n SIGNATURE EVENT STORYLINES: The Truist Championship is the sixth Signature Event on the PGA TOUR schedule in 2026. \u2026 With his T7 at the Cadillac Championship, Alex Smalley<\/a> jumped up 10 spots in the Aon Next 10 and knocked Sudarshan Yellamaraju<\/a> into the No. 11 spot \u2013 short by just nine points. \u2026 Matt McCarty<\/a> also earned his way into the Truist Championship via the Aon Next 10 after his T9 at Doral. He bumped Patrick Rodgers<\/a> from the No. 10 spot. \u2026 The rest of the Aon Next 10 remained the same with some shuffling of spots. \u2026 Kristoffer Reitan<\/a> bumped Jordan Smith<\/a> from the No. 5 spot in the Aon Swing 5 thanks to his T14 at Doral. He earned the fifth and final spot in the Aon Swing 5 by a mere half-point. \u2026 The rest of the Aon Swing 5 from the Cadillac Championship stayed the same.<\/p>\n FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 700 FedExCup points.<\/p>\n COURSE: Quail Hollow Club, par 71, 7,583 yards. Quail Hollow returns as host of the Truist Championship after a one-year hiatus, as it hosted the PGA Championship last year. The Charlotte gem, in preparation to host a major again, recently underwent a renovation that included redoing all the tees and greens, installing a new drainage system, and for the first time in nearly 20 years, overhauling the bunkers. The club was originally laid out by George Cobb in the early 1960s and re-worked by Tom Fazio. The “Green Mile” closing stretch is annually one of the toughest on TOUR.<\/p>\n 18-HOLE RECORD: 61, Rory McIlroy (Round 3, 2015).<\/p>\n LAST TIME: Sepp Straka won last year\u2019s Truist Championship, which was contested at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. He fired an opening-round 63 \u2013 two off the round-of-the-week shot by Keith Mitchell<\/a>, a 61 \u2013 and held steady through the balance of the week. Straka shot a final-round, 2-under 68 to top Justin Thomas<\/a> and Shane Lowry<\/a> by two shots \u2013 his second victory of the season. Lowry shared the 54-hole lead with Straka but couldn\u2019t get anything going in Sunday\u2019s finale, shooting an even-par 70.<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s PGA Championship, which was contested at Quail Hollow, was won by Scottie Scheffler<\/a> with a score of 11-under par. 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