report by Monday Q<\/a> suggested Block walked in without telling his playing partners and had reportedly been upset with how the course was set up.<\/p>\nWhen reached via text, Block told Golf Digest that the suggestions he was upset with the course were untrue and that he withdrew due to injury. He also explained why he was listed as a disqualification.<\/p>\n
\u201cI withdrew mid-round,\u201d said Block, who was playing in the event on a sponsor invite. \u201cThanked my playing partners, their caddies, the spectators and the walking scorer. Handed the scorecard I was keeping to the other player. Asked the scorekeeper to call an official for a ride in.<\/p>\n
\u201cA gentleman with a European Tour jacket arrives a couple of minutes later and I tell him that I\u2019m withdrawing. Once I arrive to the clubhouse, I walked into the championship office to thank them for the week but no one was there but thought nothing of it, thinking that I had withdrawn correctly, but I guess the gentleman that gave me the ride was not an official so I was DQ\u2019d, rather than a WD.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo hear these accusations that I just walked off the course and that I was upset about the course conditions is absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n
Block said he had been nursing a niggling left wrist. He had carded rounds of 76-73-78 prior to the final day.<\/p>\n
\u201cTweaked my already weak left wrist on 10th hole hitting out of a bush,\u201d Block added. \u201cWent into the brush again a couple of holes later and didn\u2019t want to injure it more. I was completely out of the tournament and I didn\u2019t feel it was smart to keep going at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n
When contacted by Golf Digest, the Legends Tour issued this statement: “Michael Block has been disqualified from the Staysure PGA Seniors Championship after failing to complete his final round.<\/p>\n
“During the final round of the Staysure PGA Seniors Championship, Michael Block left the course before completing his round and without completing the necessary process of advising tour officials of any injury or illness. As a result the official listing has been recorded as ‘disqualified’ rather than ‘retired.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Block was a hot topic Sunday on social media. Now 50, Block was competing at the Staysure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19075,1485,531,682,12274,82],"class_list":["post-48880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pga-championship","tag-heres-what-michael-block-had-to-say-about-his-dq-in-a-senior-event-in-scotland","tag-michael-block","tag-pga-championship","tag-rules","tag-senior-golf","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}