News American golfer Michael Block accepted a sponsors invitation to compete in last week’s Staysure Seniors PGA Championship was greeted with sheer delight.
There was immediate joy on Thursday when Block was among three players to record an ace on the host Trump Scotland course.
Sadly, Block’s departure after 12 holes in Sunday’s final round is now shrouded in controversy.
Block had endeared himself to golf fans the world over three years ago when as a club professional in Southern California the then 46-year-old first made the halfway cut on route to finishing in the top 15 at the 2023 PGA Championship.
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However that seemed all forgotten when he was unceremonously disqualified from a Staysure Legends Tour event in Aberdeen, Scotland, after he walked off the course 12 holes into his final round of the PGA Seniors Championship.
According to Legends Tour officials the 50-year-old Block “left the course before completing his round and without completing the necessary process of advising Tour officials of any injury or illness.”
Block was also penalized two strokes for arriving late to his final-round tee time, the tour confirmed.
The American had earlier posted scores of 73, 76 and a horror third day 78.
Block’s final round looked no better in falling to seven-over for this fourth round after nine holes and after a bogey on 12 he “walked off the course”, as reported by a Ryan French. French added, citing multiple unnamed sources, that Block “didn’t say anything to his playing partners” and that Block “was frustrated with the course conditions.”
The story then took a bizarre twist as Block refuded such claims stating he advised final round playing partners Paul Streeter and James Kingston of a left-wrist injury and was withdrawing.
“I thanked my playing partners, their caddies, the spectators and the walking scorer,” Block said in a Golf Digest report.
“Handed the scorecard I was keeping to the other player. Asked the scorekeeper to call an official for a ride in. A gentleman with a European Tour jacket arrives a couple of minutes later and I tell him that I’m withdrawing.
“Once I arrive to the clubhouse, I walked into the championship office to thank them for the week, but no one was there, but thought nothing of it, thinking that I had withdrawn correctly, but I guess the gentleman that gave me the ride was not an official so I was DQ’d, rather than a WD.
“To hear these accusations that I just walked off the course and that I was upset about the course conditions is absurd.”
Block added that he was “a couple seconds late” to the first tee because he was taking pictures with volunteers.
The Golf Channel report added a Legends Tour spokesperson sent the following statement to Golf Channel: “During the final round of the Staysure PGA Seniors Championship, Michael Block left the course before completing his round and without completing the necessary process of advising Tour officials of any injury or illness. As a result, the official listing has been recorded as ‘disqualified’ rather than ‘retired.’”
Before his DQ, Block had played his first 54 holes in 11 over. He aced the par-3 seventh on Thursday and later made the cut at 5 over before carding 78 on Saturday.
Block is in the field for this week’s Boeing Classic, the PGA Tour Champions stop in Snoqualmie, Washington.
