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The head pro at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in
Mission Viejo, Calif., Block finished tied for 15th at 1-over
281. It was the best finish for a club professional at the PGA
Championship since Lonnie Nielsen tied for 11th in 1986.
Being inside the top 15 ensured Block would be exempt into next
year's PGA Championship. He won't have to play the annual PGA
Professional Championship to qualify, as he has done in years
past.
Block, 46, also was awarded an exemption into this week's PGA
Tour event, the Charles Schwab Challenge. He's +40000 at
DraftKings to win the event.
And he took home a check for $288,333.
Block took on the world's best and cemented his status as a cult
hero on the par-3 No. 15 on Sunday at Oak Hill Country Club in
Rochester, N.Y., with a hole-in-one.
"It's been a surreal experience, and I had this weird kind of
sensation that life is going to be not quite the same moving
forward," Block said.
Brooks Koepka won his third PGA Championship, shooting a 9-under
271, and won $3.15 million.
Scottie Scheffler finished in a tie for second place with Viktor
Hovland of Norway, good enough to return him to No. 1 in the
OWGR ranking. Spain's Jon Rahm, who held the top spot, fell to
No. 2.
--Field Level Media
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