Scheffler's creeping brilliance defines PGA moving day with McIlroy a silent partner

Just as McIlroy was refusing to speak to the world's media for a third-straight day, the World No.1 rolled in a birdie at 18 having sensationally tamed Quail Hollow's Green Monster and taken command 

HEAD AND SHOULDERS: Scottie Scheffler of the United States looks on from the 16th tee during the third round of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Country Club on May 17, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

Eight sprawling palatial homes skirt along the 15th fairway at Quail Hollow, each estimated to be set you back north of $10m. Another six more reserved, easier-on-the-wallet piles of brick hug the green.

On the balcony of one of the latter white-washed cluster stands Rory McIlroy, peering out on to the par five and holding the Wanamaker Trophy aloft. The photoshopped, cardboard cutout version of the Holywood man would have been one put together and perched up there in hope and maybe expectation too. This corner of Charlotte, after all, had been his happiest hunting ground.