The deserving Brooks Koepka won the 2023 PGA Championship in Rochester, NY, but the weekend belonged to a far lesser-known competitor named Michael Block, who finished the tournament in fifteenth place. Block is the head golf pro at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club, Mission Viejo, CA. Club pros are very good players—likely the best most of us will ever meet—but the vast majority of them have accepted the fact that they are not professional golfers.
The Savannah Bananas and Owner Jesse Cole Never Cease to Amaze Me
There are some people you meet and every time you are in their presence you learn something new. I was in Grayson Stadium in Savannah (GA) on Monday night for two reasons. The first was to watch a baseball game between the home team, the Savannah Bananas, and the visiting Florence (KY) Y’alls.
The second reason was to celebrate the release of a book by Bananas Owner Jesse Cole that I had the good fortune to help him write. The book is titled Banana Ball: The Unbelievably True Story of the Savannah Bananas.