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Stories That Inspire Always Begin With an Everyman Never Giving Up

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Stories That Inspire Always Begin With an Everyman Never Giving Up
Michael Block (L), club pro. of Arroyo Trabuco in Mission Viejo, Calif., PGA of America Club Professional, celebrates alongside Brooks Koepka (R) of the United States hoisting the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y., on May 21, 2023. Warren Little/Getty Images
Salena Zito
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This past Saturday, Michael Block, golf’s 46-year-old everyman, was playing shoulder-to-shoulder with the world’s top players at the PGA Championship in New York state. Against all odds, he was holding his own so well that by Sunday, he was paired with arguably the greatest golfer of his generation, Rory McIlroy, a four-time major champion.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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