PGA Championship: PGA Tour Pro Rips Michael Block for Insane Excuse
May 17, 2025
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The 2025 PGA Championship has reached the stage where more than half of the field is headed home. Several PGA Tour stars are a part of that group, falling victim of the Quail Hollow Club.
But one of the biggest stories at the PGA Championship involved not a PGA Tour player, but the PGA professional Michael Block. For anyone unaware of the difference, golf influencer Paige Spiranac cleared that up for everyone.
Block not only missed the cut, but did so posting rounds of 75 and 82 to finish at 15-over. That was good enough for a 150th place finish. Afterward, Block had an unbelievable excuse.
He essentially blamed the small crowd size as to why he struggled at the 107th PGA Championship while speaking to Golf.com.
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – MAY 16: Michael Block of the United States looks down the 10th hole during the second round of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Country Club on May 16, 2025 in… CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – MAY 16: Michael Block of the United States looks down the 10th hole during the second round of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Country Club on May 16, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images)
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“That’s kind of the funny part is I wish there was a huge crowd on every hole because that’s when I hit my shots…. “
“When there’s no one around is when I hit my worst shots. That’s something that I need more in my life is a bigger crowd. I just need to play a little better so it could happen. I could only imagine what would have happened if I would have been playing really good this week.”
I have been watching and covering golf for nearly three decades and have yet to come across a golfer referring to needing a crowd to play well. If anything, most prefer playing in a vacuum, hence the golf etiquette.
PGA Tour pro Byeong Hun An must agree with that sentiment. He took to social media to take not a jab, but a killer uppercut at Block.
“Wild take…definitely somewhere up there with flat earth’ers,” Hun An posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Tell us how you really feel, Hun An.
Michael Block, of course, became famous at the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill.
He took the golf world by storm, making a hole-in-one playing alongside Rory McIlroy. The PGA pro birdied his 72nd hole in dramatic fashion to finish in the top 15, which earned him an exemption into last year’s PGA Championship.
His everyman-type nature was endearing. He went out at a local bar prior to his final round and had drinks with the locals.
It is hard not to like Block’s persona.
But to claim that the reason you didn’t perform better was because of the crowd size reeks of amateur mentality. Then again, maybe that is why he is not on the PGA Tour.
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