What a distinction per week makes.
After his scintillating efficiency on the PGA Championship over the weekend, membership professional Michael Block climbed from place 3,580 to No. 577 within the newest Official World Golf Ranking, launched Monday.
The head professional at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in Mission Viejo, California, Block completed tied for fifteenth at 1-over 281. It was one of the best end for a membership skilled on the PGA Championship since Lonnie Nielsen tied for eleventh in 1986.
Being inside the highest 15 ensured Block could be exempt into subsequent yr’s PGA Championship. He received’t must play the annual PGA Professional Championship to qualify, as he has executed in years previous.
Block, 46, additionally was awarded an exemption into this week’s PGA Tour occasion, the Charles Schwab Challenge. He’s +40000 at DraftKings to win the occasion.
And he took residence a examine for $288,333.
Block took on the world’s finest and cemented his standing 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 stated.
Brooks Koepka received his third PGA Championship, taking pictures a 9-under 271, and received $3.15 million.
Scottie Scheffler completed in a tie for second place with Viktor Hovland of Norway, adequate to return him to No. 1 within the OWGR rating. Spain’s Jon Rahm, who held the highest spot, fell to No. 2.