The latest too-good-to-be-true sports story turned out to be both exceptionally good and absolutely true when a golfing Everyman put a lump in the throat of hardened hackers who prefer their beer wet and eyes dry.
Michael Block is the club pro at a California public golf course who stole the show over the weekend at the PGA Championship in Rochester, New York. Block, 46, built himself into a legend by first making the cut at Oak Hill Country Club, then making a hole-in-one Sunday while playing with Rory McIlroy, and finally by draining a par putt on the 72nd hole that tied him for 15th and qualified him for next year’s PGA Championship in Kentucky.