Golf's latest sensation was floored by a textual content message he obtained from Michael Jordan

• Michael Block’s magical run on the PGA Championship turned him into an in a single day sensation.
• Block has since gotten invitations to play in a number of extra PGA Tour occasions arising.
• He additionally acquired a textual content from Michael Jordan within the mess of messages he is nonetheless working his means by.

Michael Block’s dream run of golf retains on delivering.

Final week, Block turned the lover story of the PGA Championship, ending because the low membership professional amongst a subject of a number of the finest golfers on the earth. He capped off his run of play with a hole-in-one on Sunday and an up-and-down on the 18th gap that secured him a T15 end and with it, an computerized invite to subsequent yr’s PGA Championship.

He additionally took residence a examine value greater than $280,000 — not dangerous for a weekend’s work.

However apart from the money, Block has additionally loved a newfound little bit of superstar, together with a textual content message from basketball legend and golf fanatic Michael Jordan.

“I am an enormous Jordan man my complete life. I used to be a bit child in Iowa saving 100 bucks for a pair of Jordans again within the day,” Block advised reporters forward of this week’s Charles Schwab Problem, per ESPN. “Fairly darn cool, to say the least.”

In response to Block, Jordan’s message was about “one thing in the best way that what he noticed is why he loves the sport of golf a lot.”

Jordan wasn’t alone in loving what he noticed of Block’s story. In response to Sports activities Media Watch, viewership on Sunday peaked as Block was ending out his 18th gap alongside Rory McIlroy.

Block was competing within the event as a membership professional — his day job is working as head professional at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Membership in Mission Viejo, California. He isn’t your common weekend duffer, and has developed fairly a repute amongst a number of the professional gamers that decision California residence.

Max Homa, who has received 5 PGA Tour occasions because the begin of 2021, known as Block a “legend in southern California,” in line with ESPN.

“It is all the time wonderful to see somebody who, should you go to the U.S. Novice or the U.S. Mid-Am and also you see these gamers how nice they’re, and so they have a job,” Homa advised reporters. “I spend all my days right here working towards golf. That is all I’ve to do, and he can nonetheless whoop me actual good.”

Whereas Block has no plans of making an attempt to turn into a full-timer on the PGA Tour, he shall be current at just a few extra occasions this yr, having already secured a sponsor’s exemption to this week’s Charles Schwab Problem.

Past his future PGA Tour occasions, if he can sustain the texts with Jordan, Block might additionally probably rating himself an invitation to Jordan’s residence course, The Grove XXIII.