Michael Block Gets a Hole In One At PGA Championship

Michael Block Gets a Hole In One At PGA Championship

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — On Saturday evening, Michael Block, the 46-year-old Everyman golf pro from a public course in California, learned that he would continue his enchanting run at this year’s P.G.A. Championship by playing the final round with Rory McIlroy, the four-time major champion. Block rolled his eyes at the …

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PGA Championship: Who Grew Oak Hill’s Namesake Trees?

PGA Championship: Who Grew Oak Hill’s Namesake Trees?

Rob Galbraith remembers, as a child in the early 1960s, regularly going to the Rochester, N.Y., home of his great-grandfather, John R. Williams who had been a pioneering physician in the area.Most memorable about those visits was seeing the byproduct of Williams’s amateur avocation: botany. In the backyard, there were …

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