Next stop for golf’s Presidents Cup after Australia: Charlotte’s Quail Hollow Club

The attention of the golf world is focused this week on the Presidents Cup, which is being played at Royal Melbourne in Australia.

It’s worth remembering that in two years, when the Presidents Cup is played again in the fall of 2021, the site will be Charlotte’s Quail Hollow Club.

It will be a chance for Quail Hollow to again host a top-notch golf event — the PGA Championship was played at Quail Hollow in 2017 and the club has been the site of the PGA Tour’s Wells Fargo Championship since 2003.

The Presidents Cup is a match-play event contested between the United States and a team of non-European international golfers.

First played in 1994, the Presidents Cup doesn’t have the tradition or history of the Ryder Cup (played between the U.S. and Europe in even-numbered years). It features 12 top American players and 12 non-European international players. Heading into this week’s competition, the U.S. had a 9-1-1 edge.

This year’s American team is captained by Tiger Woods. U.S. players include Justin Thomas, Charlotte-resident Webb Simpson, Dustin Johnson and Rickey Fowler.

The international team features Australia’s Adam Scott, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama and South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen.

No major changes are expected on Quail Hollow’s course to accommodate the Presidents Cup The Wells Fargo Championship will move to TPC Potomac in Maryland in 2021 to make way for the Presidents Cup before returning to Quail Hollow in ’22.