
Lucas Glover
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Lucas Glover has a long history at Innisbrook Resort and utilized some of that course knowledge en route to a 4-under 67 on day one of the Valspar Championship, T4 after wave one.
Glover arrived with 17 career starts at the Copperhead Course with six of those being top-25 finishes. He has no shortage of course knowledge and today he got the job done with the flat stick. He gained three strokes putting which was third in the field, this morning. Glover splashed home six putts from outside of 10 feet including a trio from outside of 20 feet, the longest being 34'1" to start his day. The best finish on his tournament resume is a T4 (2007) and he'll try to match or exceed that over the next three days. The Clemson product arrived with 12 straight finishes outside of the top 35 so recent form certainly wasn't on his side to start the week.
Lucas Glover capped off his week at the FedEx St. Jude Championship with a 4-under 66, snagging a share of third place on the live leaderboard, playing his way through the top-70 FedExCup bubble to earn a seat in next week's event.
Glover started the week at 121st in the FedExCup standings, barely sneaking through the top-125 mark. He walked through Memphis with four sub-70 rounds to climb 78 spots on the live projected standings. "I finally hit it nice and I made a bunch of 10- to 20-foot putts. Still missed a bunch from two feet, but yeah, I mean, I'm missing putts where other guys don't even mark it. That's been an issue for a while. But I putted beautifully out from mid range and made a bunch of long ones. I just got to shore up the nerves on the short ones." Glover has now played his way to the second event of the FEC Playoffs in four of the last six seasons.
Defending champion Lucas Glover arrives at this week's John Deere Classic with cuts made in seven of his last eight stroke-play events.
The Clemson product racked up 24 birdies at TPC Deere Run en route to victory at the 2021 JDC. It was his fourth career PGA TOUR title and first since the 2011 Wells Fargo Championship. This time around he enters the week with a 16-for-21 record on the season, currently ranked 103rd in the FedExCup race. While he has been steady in earning paychecks, he's found just one top 20 in his last 14 stroke-play events. In recent weeks he's working on some technical stuff with his swing, "was just having trouble hitting my shot, my shot shape, which is a draw. Found out just in my setup my weight was way too far in my heels... So last week was the first week taking it into competition and it was good to make the cut and nice to get some reps, but definitely was different." Glover ranks 58th off-the-tee this season and 36th on approach. His short game remains a wildcard from week to week.
South Carolina native and world No. 100 Lucas Glover will look to capitalize on his local knowledge when he tees it up this week for the 20th time at the RBC Heritage.
The 42-year-old Glover, a four-time Tour winner, recently finished T-30 at the Masters, where he made his fifth cut in nine starts at Augusta National. In 19 previous appearances at Harbour Town Golf Links, Glover has made 12 cuts with this best finish seventh in 2008 for his only top 10; he was 33rd in 2021. On the season, he’s made 11 cuts in 14 starts with his best finish coming in January at the Sony Open, where he was T-5. More recently, he was T-18 at the Valero Texas Open following a missed cut at The Players.
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