Wouldn't Charlotte Country Club be a better choice?
. . . I will also say that although the course is very good and interesting from an architectural stand point, it didn't appear to me that it could be made hard enough for something like the PGA. . . .
JC, I'm no expert, but my thinking is that it could be made "hard" enough, playing at its full length, with tighter fairways, and with difficult pin placements. Would it also be fair and make for an interesting tournament? I don't know enough to go that far. Still, high profile amateur events are probably their best bet, including the Walker and Curtis Cups. A little off the subject, but, by the way, did you have the sense that more people should have/could have attended the recent Women's Am at Charlotte, if the event, and that it was all free, had been better publicized?