The 2014 PGA Tour continues with the Wells Fargo Championship to be played at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1 May to 4 May 2014. The
tournament has a purse of USD 6.9 million with the winner to be awarded
500 FedEx Cup points apart from the USD 1,242,000 prize. The
72-holes course has a total length of 7442 yards and is credited with
having one of the toughest finishes on the PGA Tour with holes 16, 17
and 18 at the course called the “Green Mile”. The United States has dominated the tournament with the winners of last three years here belonging to the country.
Turnament Shamari
May 01-04, 2014
Purse: $6,900,000
2014 Champion: Adam Scott
TV: ESPN, CBS
Derek
Ernst will return after having won the tournament’s 2014 edition with
the winning score of 280 (-8) defeating David Lynn in a playoff. Phil
Mickelson finished runner up last year and would also be returning to
Charlotte. US Open champions Justin Rose, Webb Simpson and Rory McIlroy
have also committed to the field this year. 2014champion Ricky Fowler
has also agreed to ply his trade in the tournament. However, Bubba Watson, world no. 4, withdrew from the tournament mere days before it is scheduled to commence. Tickets for the tournament can be bought at the official website www.wellsfargochampionship.com.
Of course, Noh didn't burst onto the scene last week and when US
announcers said he was looking for a 'first win', they were of course
falling into the seemingly inescapable trap of thinking golf begins and
ends on the PGA Tour. In reality, Noh's quality was displayed as far
back as 2010 when he became the second-youngest winner on the European
Tour on his way to the Asian Tour Money List title.
But since then it's fair to say he's found it difficult to live up to
his clear potential and it took until the end of 2013, a year which saw
him finish 153rd on the PGA Tour Money List, for Noh to return to
winning ways via the Web.com Tour Finals. As an aside, two of the
winners of those six events have already won on the PGA Tour and they
may prove an excellent pointer in years to come.
As for Noh, victory at the Zurich should see him press on and find
consistency. He should contend regularly and win his share of
tournaments. It's easy to make unrealistic projections but here we have a
player with a textbook swing who putts well and, as we saw on Sunday,
has that unteachable ability to produce his absolute best when he needs
it the most. He's also already shown some really promising form in
majors and his ball-striking should enable him to build on that, too.
It's also worth noting that Noh credits last season's struggles for
his victory. He said afterwards that 2013 was a huge learning curve, and
maybe we'll see players with similar profiles follow a similar
trajectory - not everyone does a Jordan Spieth.
All of which leads me nicely to Bud Cauley. A tie for 11th
represented his best PGA Tour finish since the 2012 Barclays and, coming
on the back of two top-30s in his previous three starts, suggests that
he's on his way back to the form that made him look like the next star
of American golf before the emergence of Spieth, Harris English and co.
He'll fulfill his potential at some stage, I'm sure of that, maybe in
whatever they call the event held at Annandale if he makes the field.
