PGA Championship returns to Quail Hollow in Charlotte for the second major of the golf season. This North Carolina course last hosted in 2017 when Justin Thomas won by two strokes, and as luck would have it for J.

Fresh off perhaps his greatest career accomplishment, McIlroy will try to ride the wave this week at the PGA Championship.

The statistic we care most about in golf, as fans and writers and players and sponsors and any other role you can imagine, is wins. It's the broadest statistic of them all, and maybe not the best in determining history’s most talented golfers,