Letter from PGA Championship: Passing the Green Mile test at Quail Hollow can decide who wins

Only 29 players have ever played the Green Mile without a bogey on the week.

GREEN MILE: The Green Mile at Quail Hollow Club – the most brutal three-hole finishing stretch in golf that will doom most players and leave only one survivor standing at the end of the 107th PGA Championship with a Wanamaker Trophy in his hands. Pic: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images

The best three golfers in the world stepped to the 16th tee a cumulative 3-under par through the first six holes of the PGA Championship. They walked off the green a cumulative 3-over.

Welcome to the Green Mile at Quail Hollow Club – the most brutal three-hole finishing stretch in golf that will doom most players and leave only one survivor standing at the end of the 107th PGA Championship with a Wanamaker Trophy in his hands.