Lucas Glover is showing what could be the form of his life in a period of huge Ryder Cup ramifications.
The 43-year-old added a win at the FedEx St. Jude Championship to his Wyndham Championship title by beating Patrick Cantlay in a sudden-death playoff at TPC Southwind.
Having made the FedEx Cup Playoffs via the final event of the PGA Tour regular season, Glover is now fourth in the standings and contending for the lucrative season-long crown.
Glover could be set for a Ryder Cup debut that appeared unthinkable when he sat 166th in the world rankings at the end of June, without playing in a major this year too.
The American was asked if earning a spot on Zach Johnson’s team crossed his mind after winning in Memphis:
“About 15 minutes ago,” he said.
“I think I’ve never made it, and I want to”
Unless Glover was to complete a sensational hattrick at the BMW Championship, his most likely route to Marco Simone could be via a captain’s pick.
Scottie Scheffler and Wyndham Clark have both already qualified for the Ryder Cup via the American points list.
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Major champions Brian Harman and Brooks Koepka, along with Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele make up the rest of the current top six following the first FedEx Cup Playoffs event.
Be it a captain’s pick or an automatic spot for the man from Greenville, Glover says he would integrate well within the US team that’s aiming to win on away soil for the first time since 1993.
“Right now, yes. [I’m] playing pretty good golf, and I think I’d be pretty good in the team room and be a good partner, so yeah, absolutely I would,” he added.
It wasn’t long ago when Glover disappointingly failed to qualify for the US Open, around the time he said: “It was hard to go to the range on some days.”
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A decade-long bout with the yips led to a winless run on the PGA Tour of the same length, but he holed a number of crucial putts to topple Cantlay, Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood to continue his remarkable streak.
“If you would have told me this three months ago, I’d tell you you’re crazy,” the American admitted.
“But at the same time, if you asked me legitimately did I think I was capable, I’d say yes, even then.
“It’s just one of those sad ways athletes are wired. We always believe in ourselves no matter how bad it is.
“I never gave that up, but like the middle of May, it was hard to go to the range some days and hard to work. But we pushed through and did it anyway.”
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