The PGA Championship for years has been the major that lacked an identity compared with the other three. The Masters is at Augusta National, the only major held at the same course every year. The British Open has links golf.

Walter Hagen is the only golfer to win more than two consecutive PGA Championships, winning four in a row from 1924 to '27. Hagen won a total of five PGA Championships, an achievement only matched by Jack Nicklaus, though Nicklaus never won his championships in back-to-back years.

To identify PGA Championship contenders, we can combine current form with what we know about one of the PGA Tour’s stickier courses: Quail Hollow in Charlotte.