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?

The second major tournament of the golf calendar is just a few days away as the best players in the world flock to Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. Rory McIlroy took the first major win of the year,