GREENSBORO (AP) – Lucas Glover looked to the sky and held back tears after winning the Wyndham Championship, sending him to the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Tour postseason with more opportunities ahead of him.
Justin Thomas fell to the ground, stunned that his birdie chip hit the base of the pin and stayed out, leaving him out of the FedEx Cup playoffs by about the same small margin that kept his ball out of the cup. Such were the range of emotions at Sedgefield, the final tournament before the lucrative postseason for the top 70 players.
Glover is one of them, closing with a two-under 68 for a two-shot victory over a faltering Russell Henley and Byeong Hun An. He started the week at number 112, and the victory – his first in two years – moved him to number 49. Another good week in Memphis, Tennessee, would set him up for the all the signature USD20 million events next year.
The timing couldn’t have been better for the 43-year-old Glover. Sunday would have been the birthday of his late grandfather, who got him into the game and sent him to the late Dick Harmon to hone the skills of a future United States Open champion.
