While you’re in Charlotte to watch the 2025 PGA Championship, you’re going to need to eat. And while this year, your Championship+ admission ticket includes unlimited food and non-alcoholic beverages, there will be times you’ll want to stray from the golf course to find breakfast, lunch or dinner nearby.

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?

Monday was a near washout in Charlotte and more rain the next two days could limit practice for the season’s second major.