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There are many ways to approach what will be the last day of the 2023 PGA Championship. One is to remember that Rory McIlroy once again has a chance to win a big one, something he hasn’t exactly done since the 2014 PGA, for nine years now.
The Northern Irishman deserves it, especially after his feats without a prize last year.
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We can also resort to the duel between LIV and PGA. Majors predator Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeua are in top form.
Having overcome the physical problems that led them to ostracism in the big tournaments for a long time, they are the face of the LIV against the Hovlands, an increasingly complete Conners, Rose, Scheffler, Rory… Koepka has truly returned.
The Masters has already been played with Rahm. After the first round he was told that he was taking six shots out of Masters winner Jon Rahm and he literally burst into tears and choked up. This professor from ‘Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club’ (Mission Viejo, California) has materialized three rounds of par (70 strokes) and on the course he was easy to distinguish thanks to his hooded sweatshirt.
He seems very happy and he seems to play, at least so far, without the extra pressure of this kind of dating. Throughout his life he has played 24 PGA Tour tournaments, either by invitation (as a form of promotion for other golf professionals) or because he earned his place in the previous rounds.
In them he earned $38,038 and had only made four cuts to date (the PGA is his fifth). What is happening to him, Block assimilates, but perhaps he is not fully aware that more and more people are following him. His story is the most authentic, he is Cinderella, and his compatriots have become fans of the professor.
His statement about the bucket of balls left more than one with their mouths open: “I am the club’s professional. People think that I have the best job in the world. I have a great job. I belong to a very supportive club that lets me play , but the number of times I give a bucket of balls is not even once a week,” he told the PGA Tour.
He even detracted from what he is doing: “The club’s professionals have always been said to solve it in a couple of shots while the circuit professionals solve it in one, and I’m lucky enough to solve it in a hit this time.” About his life, the revelation player highlights: “I need a real job that pays me weekly and thanks to the PGA I can be with my family and come to compete in some tournaments.
I don’t want to have to putt to pay my mortgage.” It should be said that PGA of America professionals located at high-level clubs are very well paid ($100,000 to $200,000 annually) and often own a portion of the pro shop sales and have certain incentives.
At the end of the third round, in which he even made a double bogey to 6 but finished in 70, Block already knows that history is just around the corner. “My wife will keep me with my feet on the ground,” he commented to the press, and assured: “I’m just having fun.
Everyone is great here and the people are excellent. We went out to dinner, everyone is incredible and the fans have been amazing, and you [the press] have been great and I’m having a great time.” Block answered the million dollar question: Do you think you can win? “I’m six off the lead, I have to push a bit but can I do -3 or -4? Absolutely 100 per cent, especially if the streets get a bit dry.
It would certainly be huge for me.” He will go out to play the last round in Oak Hill, with none other than Rory McIlroy. On Saturday he did it with Justin Rose. The player did not want to leave without thanking one of his clubs: “There is a reason why the same putter has been in my bag for the last 20 years”, he exclaimed to talk about ‘his savior of him ‘ of the.
“When I’m 60, retired and watch the videos of all this, I will remember the best week of my life,” he concluded.
