The Truist Championship is a professional

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tournament in

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on the

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. Held in early May, usually at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, it has attracted some of the top players on the tour. It debuted in

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

as the Wachovia Championship, was known in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

and

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

as the Quail Hollow Championship, from 2011 to 2024 as the Wells Fargo Championship and became the Truist Championship in 2025. From 2004–06 and 2011–13, the tournament ended in a playoff. Additionally, the event has one of the tougher finishes on tour with 16, 17, and 18, commonly known as the "Green Mile," often ranked among the PGA Tour's toughest holes. Organized by Champions for Education, Inc., the majority of the charitable proceeds from the tournament benefit

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. Decades earlier, Quail Hollow hosted the PGA Tour's

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eleven times, from

1969 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the ...

through

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

Sponsorship

Wachovia Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo and Company in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States, based on total asset ...

, a financial services company, was the title sponsor from the tournament's inception until the company was acquired by

Wells Fargo Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with a significant global presence. The company operates in 35 countries and serves over 70 million customers worldwide. It is a systemically important fi ...

, which chose to remove the Wachovia branding for the 2009 event. After two editions as the Quail Hollow Championship, Wells Fargo attached its name to the event in 2011. On December 8, 2023, Wells Fargo announced it would not sponsor the tournament after 2024. On August 6, 2024, Truist, a Charlotte-based bank, was announced as the new title sponsor.

Tournament hosts

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, the tournament was held on the coast in Wilmington at Eagle Point Golf Club, as Quail Hollow hosted the

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in mid-August. Wilmington hosted the Azalea Open on tour in the 1950s and 1960s at the Donald Ross-designed Cape Fear Country Club; it was a tune-up event for

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through

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...

, part of the city's Azalea Festival. In

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

, it was held near

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, as Quail Hollow hosted the

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in late September. In

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, the tournament moved further north to

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(Wissahickon Course}, due to the

at Quail Hollow one week later.

Winners

''Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.''
Source:

Multiple winners

;4 wins *

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: 2010, 2015, 2021, 2024 ;2 wins *

Max Homa John Maxwell Homa (born November 19, 1990) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He reached the top five in the Official World Golf Ranking in 2023. During his amateur career at the University of California, Berkeley, he ...

: 2019, 2022

References

External links

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Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site
PGA Tour events Golf tournaments in North Carolina Golf tournaments in Maryland Sports competitions in Charlotte, North Carolina Wells Fargo Recurring sporting events established in 2003 2003 establishments in North Carolina