Palmer steals the show, at least for a day.

No one else did at Quail Hollow won more majors and none is close to his PGA Tour victories. Unsurprisingly, nobody had more fans after each gesture Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Championship.

That uses the case for Tiger Woods.

This time, it was to Arnold Palmer, the King, but only for a day.

The tournament which will always extra step in an 81 years for his old power star in Pro - Am. Palmer, who lived at the 15th hole and helped bring the Kemper Open Quail Hollow years ago, played with the club Chairman John Harrison and Sam Saunders, grandson of Palmer who was given a sponsor exemption.

"He played more severe that I've never seen it play", said Palmer. "But it's great." I think that it is in place for a real good tournament. ?

Woods, who last year missed the cut with his highest score of 36 holes, does not because of what he described as a minor knee injury in the third round of the masters. It is to decide Friday to play the week next in the Players Championship.

Quail hollow is not suffering from the lack of star power.

The defending champion is Rory McIlroy, who was 22 on Wednesday. His birthday party included being selected for the random drug testing. McIlroy has only two victories, although the last year has been extraordinary. He agrees with an Eagle just to make the cut, then closed with a course record 62 to a 4-shot on Phil Mickelson win.

McIlroy has not played in America, since he shot 80 in the last round of the masters to lose a four-shot lead, a moment just as memorable for how he managed a time also devastating in his young career. It is not playing the week next to The Players, that meant a trip over the Ireland of the North, that continues right at home.

Even if it was not the defending champion, McIlroy said that it would not be missed.

"It is one of my favorite golf courses and one of my favourite events of the year," he said.

The Setup program is similar to last year, a mini-Masters, with the rough cut so low that it is only about an inch deep and primarily defines the aisles. Which can lead to some play aggressive for the birdies and eagles, with difficulty when players attempt to escape from the trees.

And that is why Mickelson, a three time champion masters, love.

"It is really exciting because it gives you the chance to try a shot of recovery," said Mickelson. "There are a lot of penalties with trees as much as they have here, but I think that this is the most exciting shot in golf."

To clarify, rough short allows her to reach the trees?

"Oh, can I still reach the trees, the" Mickelson said.

The only complaint that he is with the Greens, which can if engulf away holes. This is when they get quickly, with places of hole, Mickelson that year last critique them as being unfair.

It was not enough to keep him away.

"I was frustrated when I was not able to go to the PIN for the third time in the round after having hit a green," he said. "I should not say anything, but I was frustrated." They know for key (2017 PGA Championship) he will have to be changes. The Greens have been designed to drive approximately 9 on the stimpmeter, and they rolling at 13, 14. But for the PGA, they will be well. ?