And rather than spending Dylan and Ethan’s childhoods trying to close it, he’s been home instead. He knows the gap between himself and the millionaires he’s playing alongside this weekend is small. Block is a star in the Southern California PGA, where he’s been named the Player of the Year nine times in the last decade. Some are better suited for passing their golf knowledge along to others while getting their competitive fix when and where they can. He didn’t make it out of the second stage, a wave of relief washing over him when he headed back home to his young family. At the urging of his inner circle, he went to PGA Tour qualifying school in 2007. It’s a path Block considered taking - albeit reluctantly - earlier in his career. Yet it’s also telling of how teaching professionals are often regarded, as good players to be sure, just not quite good enough to regularly go up against the world’s best.
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“My (boss) even said, ‘That was you not being a club pro anymore,’” Block said. Playing a handful of groups ahead of a pairing that included Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, Block shot a 2-over 73 in the second round. The fear that he didn’t belong out here vanished a year ago at Southern Hills.
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While not the longest hitter - Block joked his 18-year-old son Dylan can blast it 70 yards by him - a driver switch at “oh dark 30” on Wednesday night has given Block enough length off the tee that he doesn’t have to hit mid-irons into the greens. So easily it’s not difficult for Block to let the mind wander. While Block believes he’s “pretty darn close” to the level of Cantlay and Hossler, he also knows he arrived in Western New York having never made the weekend in six tries at majors. It forced him to cancel his scheduled flight back to California on Saturday morning.īooking a flight home so early wasn’t so much about a lack of confidence but practicality. The instructor who tells his students the importance of “spiraling upward” shook off the ensuing double bogey to par each of his final four holes.
He followed by shanking an 8-iron off the tee on the par-3 fifth, when only a fortunate bounce off a tree limb prevented the ball from sailing out of bounds and into someone’s backyard.Įarlier in his career, it may have sent Block into a free fall. He bogeyed the par-5 fourth despite having a lob wedge in his hand on his approach.
He knew he had it going before his touch briefly vanished on his closing nine. Block’s nearly four-hour tour of the East Course included three birdies in his first five holes, a stretch that vaulted him into second behind first-round leader Bryson DeChambeau.
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