Few details of the upcoming PGA Championship will have as much impact on the final result as what the players can do on the so-called "Green Mile."

The deepest field of the season converges in North Carolina this week for 107th playing of the PGA Championship. Welcoming 99 of the top 100 players in the world (an injured Billy Horschel being the exemption) along with past major champions and 20 PGA professionals,

Players rave about it when they come every year, but for the course architecture heads and the peripheral golf community, the glass is very much half empty on this week’s PGA Championship venue. So why is the divide so stark?