Michael Block is the most recent PGA Professional of the Year and a ten-time Southern California PGA Player of the Year. Due to his T15 finish in 2023, he was one of 20 PGA professionals to earn a spot in the 2024 PGA Championship. He finished in the Top 20 of the 2023 PGA Championship at the age of 46, becoming the first club professional to do so since 1986's 11th-place finisher Lonnie Neilsen.
Block was born in Reno, Nevada, in the United States, on June 15, 1976. He attended Parkway Central High School in Missouri and he started playing golf in his early teens. He later competed in college golf at Mississippi State University and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. But it was at San Diego Golf Academy that he earned his degree in golf course management.
After turning pro in 1998, Block rose through the ranks at Palm Desert's Lakes Country Club, moving from assistant club professional to head club professional in just six years, in 2004. He had joined Mission Viejo, California's Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club, by then.
How many PGA Tour wins does Michael Block have?
Michael Block hasn’t won on the PGA Tour as of June 2024. He tried to attend PGA Tour Q School but failed in the second stage in 2007. Regardless, he has successfully qualified in eight major events, but never made the cut; with the exception of the 2023 PGA Championship.
Michael Block PGA Wins Year-by-Year
Block has no PGA Tour wins as of June 2024, in his entire 26 professional golf years.
Michael Block PGA Tour Appearances
Michael Block has played in 32 PGA Tour events, but made the cut in only five of them, as per his PGA Tour profile.
Michael Block Professional Career Wins
Michael Block has a total of six professional wins for the Southern California section of the PGA of America. The latter organization separated from the PGA Tour in 1968.
Block’s first professional win was at the 2001 California State Open, followed by the 2014 PGA Professional National Championship and consecutive wins at the 2017 and 2018 Southern California PGA Championship and the 2022 and 2023 Southern California PGA Championship.
World Golf Championship
Michael Block has never participated in a World Golf Championship (WGC) event.
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