Michael Block finished the opening round of the Charles Schwab Challenge with a score of 11 over par, only one week after winning the PGA Championship.
Block, last week's big winner, tied for 15th after hammering a hole-in-one on Sunday and receiving a text from NBA star Michael Jordan.
The 46-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas, bogeyed the first three holes at Colonial Country Club and came in last overall.
ThursdayAfter this week's competition, Block, who usually teaches golf at a California public course, was emotional about going home. “I’m seeing.
My boys tomorrow night,” he told reporters. “I’m excited to play a great round tomorrow and give it my all.”
Block played with Min Woo Lee and Pierceson Coody at the Charles Schwab and made four bogeys on the first five holes, including a wedge over the back of the first green and a missed.
Bunker shot on the second.He birdied the ninth to turn at two-over and saved par on the 10th after skewing his tee shot onto the bridge.
Block finished on 81, four strokes behind the field, after three bogeys and three double bogeys on the last eight holes.