“So I’m going to sit back as much as I can with my friends and family at the house we rented and watch the videos tonight and see all my new followers on Instagram. Before you know it, you’re 60 years old and retired and look back at the videos on this and remember that was the best week of my life, and more than likely this is probably going to be the best week of my life. “I’ve learned at this point to enjoy the moment, to sit back and relax and enjoy it because it goes by fast, and life goes by fast. “I’ll look back at it and I’ll say, I’m glad you enjoyed it,” he told reporters after his third round. It’s been a dizzying week, but Block is determined to relish every second. Not since Steve Schneiter in 2005 has a PGA pro finished inside the top-40. In the 105 years of the PGA Championship, no PGA Professional has ever finished inside the top 10. There was a deafening roar as Block followed McIlroy in striping his opening tee shot down the fairway on Sunday, merely another day of huge partisan support as he goes in pursuit of history. The drag of herding these high jinks toward a resolution makes us want to cut and run. “Are you serious?”, a stunned Block asked in an uplifting video posted to Twitter by the PGA Tour when he was told who his playing partner would be.īlock lines up a putt. The hangover sets in only when the film stirs in false suspense about its half-baked climax. One shot ahead was Rory McIlroy, Block’s playing partner for the final round – though he didn’t initially believe he’d be walking the course with the four-time major winner. In his wake, a who’s who of golf’s elite Collin Morikawa, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, and Phil Mickelson, to name a few. With 18 holes left to play, he sat tied for eighth, six shots behind leader – and four-time major champion – Brooks Koepka. Having been the only one of 20 PGA Head Professional’s to make the cut, Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club’s very own shot his third consecutive even-par 70 in Saturday’s third round. Michael Block, the 46-year-old club pro who teaches golf lessons at a public course in California, is schooling many of the game’s biggest stars on New York’s notoriously challenging Oak Hill East Course. It’s been a Block party all week at the PGA Championship, and the man at the heart of festivities is not done partying just yet.
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