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PGA: What a SHOT From NON PRO PLAYER-Michael Block
What a SHOT From a NON PRO PLAYER-Michael Block
PGA Championship: Michael Block hits wild ace to end dream week at Oak Hill. Michael Block dunked it on the 15th on Sunday at Oak Hill
BBC 22 MAY 2023
Michael Block’s dream week at the PGA Championship didn’t end after 56 holes.
The 46-year-old teaching pro had one last major moment in him on Sunday afternoon.
Block pulled out a slam-dunk hole-in-one at the par-3 15th at Oak Hill Country Club on Sunday, ending what has been a life-changing week at the second major championship of the year.
Block’s shot on the 151-yard hole was right on the mark. The ball landed right in the hole, and left him stunned on the tee box with playing partner Rory McIlroy as fans lost it around them.
The shot was the first ace at the PGA Championship since Ben An did so in 2020. It also got Block back to even par on the day, and led him to his final-round 71.
Michael Block ends historic, life-changing week at PGA Championship
That shot was the perfect ending to Block’s week in Rochester, New York.
As a teaching pro at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in Mission Viejo, California, Block hasn’t competed much at this level before. He has made the cut just four times in 24 PGA events since 2007 — most recently at the 2015 Barbasol Championship, where he finished in 71st. Before this week, he’d never made a cut at a major championship.
Block already made history even before Sunday’s round, too. He was the first PGA club pro to sit inside the top-10 after 54 holes at the event since Bob Boyd did so in 1990. The best finish ever came from Tommy Ay**** in 1974 and Lonnie Nelson in 1986. They both finished T11 at their respective events.
And with the biggest round of his life ahead of him on Sunday, having carded three straight 70s in the first three rounds, Block was completely relaxed as he stepped up to the first tee — even knowing that McIlroy, who he said would be a dream to play alongside, was with him.
Instead of just getting a calm night’s sleep on Saturday following his third-straight even par round of the major championship, Block went to celebrate
Magic.
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