For a split second, Johnny Keefer didn’t think it was real.
The email, which popped in his inbox at 12:49 p.m. CT Monday, contained the subject line: John Keefer, you are invited to compete in the 107th PGA Championship. He nearly deleted it.
“It almost looked like something that could’ve been spam,” Keefer said Monday afternoon from his home in San Antonio. “But then I saw the top header and was like, ‘Whoa!’”
It wasn’t until last Wednesday that Keefer was even made aware of the possibility that he could be teeing it up in his first major championship next week at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.