Players rave about it when they come every year, but for the course architecture heads and the peripheral golf community, the glass is very much half empty on this week’s PGA Championship venue. So why is the divide so stark?

Rory McIlroy has won four times at Quail Hollow and holds the course record so goes into this week's US PGA Championship with a fearsome reputation, writes Iain Carter.

Rory McIlroy has promised to ‘tweak’ some aspects of his game as the golf star prepares to play at the PGA Championship later this week. McIlroy believes that last month’s major victory at the Masters has taken the weight off his shoulders as he prepares to play in the second major of the year.