Wells Fargo Championship May 5-8

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Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, NC • Purse: $7,300,000

 

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Wells Fargo Championship deletes 'insensitive' Cinco de Mayo tweet

The Wells Fargo Championship deleted a photo posted on its official Twitter account of fans wearing sombreros and fake mustaches to celebrate Cinco de Mayo after it was deemed insensitive.

Tournament spokesman Lee Patterson told The Associated Press in an email Thursday that "our intention was to help fans celebrate Cinco de Mayo. We received some comments that we were being insensitive, which was never the tournament's intention. So, we took the image down."

The image of fans standing around what appeared to be a cutout of playerPhil Mickelson was posted Thursday morning and removed a few hours later.

Read more http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/...emoves-cinco-de-mayo-tweet-deemed-insensitive

 

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Steve Wheatcroft and Andrew Loupe lead Wells Fargo Championship

Steve Wheatcroft and Andrew Loupe each shot 7-under 65 on Thursday in rain and steady wind to share the first-round lead in the Wells Fargo Championship, while Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler dodged a golf ball thrown at them with an earplug attached to it.

Read more http://www.tampabay.com/sports/golf...w-loupe-lead-wells-fargo-championship/2276164

 

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Zac Blair disqualified from Wells Fargo Championship for using bent putter

Zac Blair, after hitting himself in the head with his putter and damaging it, was disqualified from the Wells Fargo Championship on Friday for using a non-conforming club.

The club didn't conform because it was out of form -- after Blair whacked himself in the head with it after missing a putt on the fifth green at Quail Hollow Golf Club.

Blair, 25, proceeded to use the club to putt out -- and then noticed that the putter was bent.

Read more http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/...ls-fargo-championship-bending-putter-using-it

 

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Wells Fargo Championship: Rory McIlroy hits second round 69 at Quail Hollow

Rory McIlroy hit a three-under-par 69 to move to within six shots of leader Andrew Loupe after the second round of the Wells Fargo Championship.

Read more http://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/36235090

 

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Mickelson (76) closes round with quadruple bogey

How did Phil Mickelsonmake a quadruple-bogey 8 on the 18th hole on Saturday at the Wells Fargo Championship?

He rolled in a tricky 4-footer.

Ba-dum-tiss.

It’s an old joke, but it's apropos given how Lefty closed his round.

Read more http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golf-central-blog/mickelson-76-closes-round-quadruple-bogey/

 

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James Hahn emerges with improbable Quail Hollow victory

The guy with the fancy clothes and the high-top shoes struggled to close out the tournament, his lofty world ranking meaning little in the end.

Another player just behind him in the Official World Golf Ranking who has won a major championship and makes clutch putts galore during the Ryder Cup couldn't make anything down the stretch on Sunday and was wondering how it got away.

Then there were a couple of multiple-major champions who made impressive final-day charges, their deficit too big from mistakes made a day earlier.

Read more http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/...quail-hollow-victory-wells-fargo-championship