While happily living as a dutiful club pro for his entire adult life, Michael Block never stopped playing competitively. Now, he is even-par and tied for 10th at the PGAChamp “He was in total control.” ✍️ BFQuinn
Golf is, as you know, a cruel game, and in no ways is it more unsparing than in the harsh fact that at times the gap between those who are great, like Scheffler, and those who are simply really, really, really good, like Block, can seem both impossibly narrow and impossibly wide.There’s no answer to that. There’s only what’s here. For Block, this whole week began as a chance to cap a playing career that he kept both hands on, oftentimes pushing it down.
Block is also coming up on 50. On one hand, when he plays back home in Orange County with local tour pros like Patrick Cantlay and Beau Hossler, he sees that he can hang with them. On the other hand, he also plays about 40 yards behind them after each drive. Block came to Oak Hill with a now-or-never feel and set two lofty goals: Play the weekend and finish as low club pro.
Then came a twist in the storybook. Jimmy Chitwood bricked a free throw. On one of Oak Hill’s most manageable holes, the par-3 fifth, Block opted for an 8-iron from 165 yards out and hit one of the worst shots ever seen in all 105 years of this fine event. A cold, dead, 20-handicapper’s shank. No time to even yell, “Fore right!” Block’s shot would’ve crossed over a property fence if not for a kindly tree knocking it down. The ensuing double bogey created a sense of total doom.
After a par on No. 6, Michael looked over to Val off the side of the green and gave a reassuring nod, mouthing, “We’re OK.” Val, a bundle of nerves, nodded back.He rolled in that final putt, extended both arms and said out loud: “Thank you.” Live on ESPN, Block was introduced as only the second club pro in the last 20 years to sit inside the top 20 of the PGA Championship after 36 holes. “Don’t make me cry,” he said. “This is the last little goal I have for my career.”
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