Local golfer, Don Blake gets emotional when discussing PGA Tour in St. George
Oct 10, 2024, 7:24 AM | Updated: 7:32 am
Jay Don Blake speaks in St. George. (Screen shot via KSL Sports, X)
(Screen shot via KSL Sports, X)
ST. GEORGE, Utah – St. George native and pro golfer Jay Don Blake got a little choked up when thinking about his career, which took him back to his roots for the Black Desert Championship this weekend.
The Black Desert Championship is a PGA Tour event that will be played at St. George, Utah’s Black Desert Resort, from October 10 to 13. This event ends a more than 60-year drought for the PGA Tour to host an event in Utah.
“When we first came out for my first time ever playing [Black Desert Resort],” Blake began. “I took in awe what the golf course presented with the lava rocks, beautiful green grass, and the sand traps. I knew in the back of my mind that I grew up just down the road a little way.”
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“It wasn’t until the second time I played that I had a little bit more time to stand up on some of those lava rock peninsulas and look a little deeper down the valley where I grew up in a trailer park,” Blake continued “Standing there, I was thinking, ‘I possibly stood on this same peninsula when I was a little kid.”
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