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Golf is your game, and you are just like the guys you see on TV.
But the likening of the common golfer to the best in the world is also a clever bit of marketing copy with little resemblance to reality.
The PGA Championship exists as a counterweight to the cynical view.
The last time one finished in the top 30 was 1994, when Brooks Koepka was 4.
Michael Block is in golf’s 1 percent, just not the decimal that makes up the PGA Tour.
For many years, Block told reporters, the biggest check he’d cashed from a golf tournament was $4,500 from a California state tournament in 2001.
For this week, Block made $288,000 at a club pro national championship in Myrtle Beach.
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