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[culdeus]

Couple notes on Michael Block

• Southern California PGA Player of the year 9 times in the last 10 years (2013-22)
• biggest win was the 2014 PGA Professional Championship (club pro championship) - came back from 3 strokes back, won in playoff
• runner up at last year's PGA Professional Championship
• 2022 PGA Professional Player of the Year
• won 2004 California State Open
• won the Southern California PGA Championship 3 times (2017, 2018, 2022)
• shot a 59 to set his home course on his birthday in 2019
• shot a 58 at another SoCal course last year at a member-guest tourney
• has played in a PGA event 11 straight seasons, making 4 cuts in 25 attempts, including 7 majors - 2 US Open, 5 PGA
• played in the PGA Cup in 2022 (club pro equivalent of the Ryder Cup); came from 4 down to win his singles match as the USA won overseas - first time since 2009
• Block has imprinted on his TaylorMade golf balls the words, “WHY NOT?”

Hope he gets a bucket full of sponsors exemptions and wins himself a millions dollars this summer. Great guy. At 46 he's not likely to ascend very far but would be great if he could somehow earn his way onto the big Tour.

His boss (GM of his public course) was at Oak Hill and they're fully supportive; obviously it would be crazy to hold him back, but nice to see he has support systems around him. The guys that own his course were the ones who encouraged him to get his Class A and start playing tournaments in 2012 (first 8 years there he was the club pro there but just focused on teaching and running golf ops.)

He and his wife are flying to Dallas-Fort Worth today. Definitely living the dream.

There are a lot of success stories like this for senior tour guys, that stuck with it until 50 and did solid on those tours. Gotta maintain your health though which is tough. Seems well positioned for that if it's the goal.

As best I can tell you can get 7 sponsors exemptions a year. I believe you must make a cut in your first two events if you do not hold nor have ever held a card or made it thru some q-school level. this rule as I remember was there for Annika, and later Tony Romo otherwise you are held out until the next year. This needs serious fact checking though as maybe they altered it with the LIV Stuff

 

[BobbyLayne]

Couple notes on Michael Block

• Southern California PGA Player of the year 9 times in the last 10 years (2013-22)
• biggest win was the 2014 PGA Professional Championship (club pro championship) - came back from 3 strokes back, won in playoff
• runner up at last year's PGA Professional Championship
• 2022 PGA Professional Player of the Year
• won 2004 California State Open
• won the Southern California PGA Championship 3 times (2017, 2018, 2022)
• shot a 59 to set his home course on his birthday in 2019
• shot a 58 at another SoCal course last year at a member-guest tourney
• has played in a PGA event 11 straight seasons, making 4 cuts in 25 attempts, including 7 majors - 2 US Open, 5 PGA
• played in the PGA Cup in 2022 (club pro equivalent of the Ryder Cup); came from 4 down to win his singles match as the USA won overseas - first time since 2009
• Block has imprinted on his TaylorMade golf balls the words, “WHY NOT?”

Hope he gets a bucket full of sponsors exemptions and wins himself a millions dollars this summer. Great guy. At 46 he's not likely to ascend very far but would be great if he could somehow earn his way onto the big Tour.

His boss (GM of his public course) was at Oak Hill and they're fully supportive; obviously it would be crazy to hold him back, but nice to see he has support systems around him. The guys that own his course were the ones who encouraged him to get his Class A and start playing tournaments in 2012 (first 8 years there he was the club pro there but just focused on teaching and running golf ops.)

He and his wife are flying to Dallas-Fort Worth today. Definitely living the dream.

There are a lot of success stories like this for senior tour guys, that stuck with it until 50 and did solid on those tours. Gotta maintain your health though which is tough. Seems well positioned for that if it's the goal.

As best I can tell you can get 7 sponsors exemptions a year. I believe you must make a cut in your first two events if you do not hold nor have ever held a card or made it thru some q-school level. this rule as I remember was there for Annika, and later Tony Romo otherwise you are held out until the next year. This needs serious fact checking though as maybe they altered it with the LIV Stuff

I mean that would be a great path for him. It’s super tough to earn your card on exemptions & Monday qualifying - Tiger (1996), Spieth (2013), Rahm (2016), Joaquin Niemann (2018) all did it on sponsors exemptions as youngsters (+ Rory across the pond.) Matthew Wolff won as a sponsor’s exemption, but again, at age 20. Cory Conners was the last guy to win after Monday Qualifying (2019 Valero Texas Open); that’s happened 5 times since 1980.

His 47th birthday is in 3 weeks. Hopefully he can grind his way on or at least earn a spot on the Web.com, then it’s three years until the Champions Tour. Would be great to see him succeed. He can def go low which is the name of the game most weeks.

 

[belljr]

Couple notes on Michael Block

• Southern California PGA Player of the year 9 times in the last 10 years (2013-22)
• biggest win was the 2014 PGA Professional Championship (club pro championship) - came back from 3 strokes back, won in playoff
• runner up at last year's PGA Professional Championship
• 2022 PGA Professional Player of the Year
• won 2004 California State Open
• won the Southern California PGA Championship 3 times (2017, 2018, 2022)
• shot a 59 to set his home course on his birthday in 2019
• shot a 58 at another SoCal course last year at a member-guest tourney
• has played in a PGA event 11 straight seasons, making 4 cuts in 25 attempts, including 7 majors - 2 US Open, 5 PGA
• played in the PGA Cup in 2022 (club pro equivalent of the Ryder Cup); came from 4 down to win his singles match as the USA won overseas - first time since 2009
• Block has imprinted on his TaylorMade golf balls the words, “WHY NOT?”

Hope he gets a bucket full of sponsors exemptions and wins himself a millions dollars this summer. Great guy. At 46 he's not likely to ascend very far but would be great if he could somehow earn his way onto the big Tour.

His boss (GM of his public course) was at Oak Hill and they're fully supportive; obviously it would be crazy to hold him back, but nice to see he has support systems around him. The guys that own his course were the ones who encouraged him to get his Class A and start playing tournaments in 2012 (first 8 years there he was the club pro there but just focused on teaching and running golf ops.)

He and his wife are flying to Dallas-Fort Worth today. Definitely living the dream.

There are a lot of success stories like this for senior tour guys, that stuck with it until 50 and did solid on those tours. Gotta maintain your health though which is tough. Seems well positioned for that if it's the goal.

As best I can tell you can get 7 sponsors exemptions a year. I believe you must make a cut in your first two events if you do not hold nor have ever held a card or made it thru some q-school level. this rule as I remember was there for Annika, and later Tony Romo otherwise you are held out until the next year. This needs serious fact checking though as maybe they altered it with the LIV Stuff

I mean that would be a great path for him. It’s super tough to earn your card on exemptions & Monday qualifying - Tiger (1996), Spieth (2013), Rahm (2016), Joaquin Niemann (2018) all did it on sponsors exemptions as youngsters (+ Rory across the pond.) Matthew Wolff won as a sponsor’s exemption, but again, at age 20. Cory Conners was the last guy to win after Monday Qualifying (2019 Valero Texas Open); that’s happened 5 times since 1980.

His 47th birthday is in 3 weeks. Hopefully he can grind his way on or at least earn a spot on the Web.com, then it’s three years until the Champions Tour. Would be great to see him succeed. He can def go low which is the name of the game most weeks.

You sure you got the right Michael Block?????

 

[BobbyLayne]

Couple notes on Michael Block

• Southern California PGA Player of the year 9 times in the last 10 years (2013-22)
• biggest win was the 2014 PGA Professional Championship (club pro championship) - came back from 3 strokes back, won in playoff
• runner up at last year's PGA Professional Championship
• 2022 PGA Professional Player of the Year
• won 2004 California State Open
• won the Southern California PGA Championship 3 times (2017, 2018, 2022)
• shot a 59 to set his home course on his birthday in 2019
• shot a 58 at another SoCal course last year at a member-guest tourney
• has played in a PGA event 11 straight seasons, making 4 cuts in 25 attempts, including 7 majors - 2 US Open, 5 PGA
• played in the PGA Cup in 2022 (club pro equivalent of the Ryder Cup); came from 4 down to win his singles match as the USA won overseas - first time since 2009
• Block has imprinted on his TaylorMade golf balls the words, “WHY NOT?”

Hope he gets a bucket full of sponsors exemptions and wins himself a millions dollars this summer. Great guy. At 46 he's not likely to ascend very far but would be great if he could somehow earn his way onto the big Tour.

His boss (GM of his public course) was at Oak Hill and they're fully supportive; obviously it would be crazy to hold him back, but nice to see he has support systems around him. The guys that own his course were the ones who encouraged him to get his Class A and start playing tournaments in 2012 (first 8 years there he was the club pro there but just focused on teaching and running golf ops.)

He and his wife are flying to Dallas-Fort Worth today. Definitely living the dream.

There are a lot of success stories like this for senior tour guys, that stuck with it until 50 and did solid on those tours. Gotta maintain your health though which is tough. Seems well positioned for that if it's the goal.

As best I can tell you can get 7 sponsors exemptions a year. I believe you must make a cut in your first two events if you do not hold nor have ever held a card or made it thru some q-school level. this rule as I remember was there for Annika, and later Tony Romo otherwise you are held out until the next year. This needs serious fact checking though as maybe they altered it with the LIV Stuff

I mean that would be a great path for him. It’s super tough to earn your card on exemptions & Monday qualifying - Tiger (1996), Spieth (2013), Rahm (2016), Joaquin Niemann (2018) all did it on sponsors exemptions as youngsters (+ Rory across the pond.) Matthew Wolff won as a sponsor’s exemption, but again, at age 20. Cory Conners was the last guy to win after Monday Qualifying (2019 Valero Texas Open); that’s happened 5 times since 1980.

His 47th birthday is in 3 weeks. Hopefully he can grind his way on or at least earn a spot on the Web.com, then it’s three years until the Champions Tour. Would be great to see him succeed. He can def go low which is the name of the game most weeks.

You sure you got the right Michael Block?????

It’s one or the other

That’s the upside to the WGA strike, guys like Block or Adam Scott finally getting into tournaments

 

[BobbyLayne]

Block has accepted an invited to play the RBC Canadian Open Jun 8-11.

There’s probably not a mechanism to get him into the Memorial (in between Colonial & RBC), and the US Open follows.

After that, I would expect him to get invites to the Travelers, Rocket Mortgage & John Deere - the 3 events after the next major - if they still have slots available. Each tournament has 8 to give out, but 4 of those must meet this criteria:

• The tournament must look at the list of players who finished 2-25 on the previous year's Web.com Tour money list (combined regular season and finals). If any of those players are not already in the field, at least two sponsor exemptions must go to those players.
• At least two sponsor exemptions must also be used on PGA Tour members who are not otherwise in the field.

 

[Zeppelin]

Say what you want about Michael Block and his skills but that chip shot on 18 was a world class shot. Then he nails the putt. With all the pressure on him, his 18th hole was as good as I've ever seen.

 

[belljr]

Say what you want about Michael Block and his skills but that chip shot on 18 was a world class shot. Then he nails the putt. With all the pressure on him, his 18th hole was as good as I've ever seen.

It wasn't a chip shot but I agree with everything else you said 100%

 

[BobbyLayne]

Say what you want about Michael Block and his skills but that chip shot on 18 was a world class shot. Then he nails the putt. With all the pressure on him, his 18th hole was as good as I've ever seen.

I think fans overestimate how good pros are at putting. They look at broad stats on the PGA Tour and see they make 88% of all putts inside 10'. "Oh, they make everything." Well inside 10' is not the same thing as at 10'. They make 66% of 6' putts, 58% of 7' putts, down to 40% of 10 footers.

Block's last two putts on 17 & 18 to save par - when he had no margin for error - were 6'1" and 7'6". That's around 65% & 55% but factor in the pressure of 71st and 72nd hole of a major....that was really impressive.

That last putt was worth $74K. Combined, those last two made putts were worth $123,333. For a working class club pro, that's amazing stuff.

 

[Willie Neslon]

https://twitter.com/WillGrayGolfbet/status/1661439841698021381

😯

 

[General Malaise]

Morikawa has been awfully quiet but I think he has a good shot at winning this one.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

https://twitter.com/WillGrayGolfbet/status/1661439841698021381

😯

my guess is that people are betting him to miss the cut.

 

[Willie Neslon]

https://twitter.com/WillGrayGolfbet/status/1661439841698021381

😯

my guess is that people are betting him to miss the cut.

He's talking about the books liability for him to win. Only -250 to miss the cut. I'm seriously considering a huge bet there. Turn every 1k into 1400.

 

[belljr]

Well it was a fun week

 

[Willie Neslon]

https://twitter.com/WillGrayGolfbet/status/1661439841698021381

😯

my guess is that people are betting him to miss the cut.

He's talking about the books liability for him to win. Only -250 to miss the cut. I'm seriously considering a huge bet there. Turn every 1k into 1400.

Easiest sports gambling money I've ever made.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

https://twitter.com/WillGrayGolfbet/status/1661439841698021381

😯

my guess is that people are betting him to miss the cut.

He's talking about the books liability for him to win. Only -250 to miss the cut. I'm seriously considering a huge bet there. Turn every 1k into 1400.

Easiest sports gambling money I've ever made.

yeah, after an emotional week last week plus all the interviews this week and playing a new course he was doomed from the start. The guy should sleep all day saturday before coming back to CA

 

[Judge Smails]

Letdown was inevitable

 

[Grahamburn]

In a recent interview, Brooks Koepka said that his relationship with Jena has "never been better." He added "money truly does solve all problems. If she's bothering me I Venmo her $1K to stop and she does."

 

[General Malaise]

In a recent interview, Brooks Koepka said that his relationship with Jena has "never been better." He added "money truly does solve all problems. If she's bothering me I Venmo her $1K to stop and she does."