Have you seen this? Former BYU golfer caught giving lessons to son before PGA Championship

ON THE STAND – Before Tony Finau and the rest of the PGA Championship field could open the second major of the season, they first began traveling to Louisville, Kentucky, for practice rounds, opportunities with media and dinners at Valhalla Golf Club.

For former BYU star Zac Blair, that meant giving his young son a special lesson on the legendary course’s driving range.

Blair was filmed by NBC Golf Channel cameras giving his son Charles – he calls him “CB,” after CB Macdonald, the famous golf course architect – on the Valhalla driving range.

The reigning Utah Open champion who prepped at Fremont High was seen hitting golf balls for the young CB, offering some advice, then giving the youngster a high five.

Family has been important to Blair, who joined his father Jimmy among nine players to win the Utah State Amateur Championship and the State Open Professional Championship while holding the senior Javier Barcos of the University of Utah last August at Riverside Country Club in Provo.

“My dad is my hero,” Blair said as he accepted the winner’s check, emotions tight in his throat as his wife Alicia and the couple’s two sons stood beside him on the 18th green. “I wish it was here, but it’s really cool.”

Blair burst onto the scene nearly a decade ago, about 30 yards after Jimmy Blair earned his PGA Tour card in 1984, when he had six top-25 finishes to begin his career and more than $600,000 in winnings as a Tour rookie. He finished tied for 40th at the 2014 US Open, his best finish at a major, but missed much of the past three years while recovering from surgery to repair two tears in his right labrum.

Yet after reinstating his PGA Tour card following an extended stay on the Korn Ferry Tour via medical exemption, Blair has made six of his 11 starts during the 2024 season.

He and playing partner Patrick Fishburn, another BYU and Fremont High alum, tied for fourth at the Zurich Classic in New Orleans on April 28, taking the lead until the final round before weaken in the final straight.

But playing on the 7,609-yard par-71 course located 20 miles east of downtown Louisville will be special for Blair, who last visited Valhalla when his father Jimmy played there in the PGA Championship as a professional club 24 years ago. he remarked on social media.