Figures Lucas Glover, he played more than 100 tours with Jonathan Byrd, golf junior when they were teenagers to their years together at Clemson and almost a decade on the PGA Tour.
The stakes have never were also high that they were Sunday in the Championship of Wells Fargo.
Glover has never been better.
Clinging to a One-Shot, Glover lead closed with three gutsy pars of the brutal finishing section, at Quail Hollow slamming his fist when he made the last time of 7 feet for a 3-under 69 and what appeared to be a sure win. Then came a Byrd, with two major pars on his own initiative, followed by a shooting in 15 feet he did birdie the 18th for a 72 to force a playoff.
Glover wound up a winner with equal on the first extra hole, ending a drought of 41 tournaments that stretched nearly to two years to his US Open win to Bethpage Black in 2009.
It is the eighth game this year on the PGA Tour and the third in a row.
"I am pleased," said Glover. "Any any time you win, you are happy." This means that beat you all the world. You did that you set for Thursday morning when the range of bell. Against this field and on this golf course and a tournament of this magnitude, I am very pleased. ?
And against one of his best friends?
Who could help. Glover, in his first game of PGA Tour, felt a sense of calm play against Byrd, who had won his last two tournaments in extra holes. And it showed.
In the regulations, Glover hooked his tee shot until this left he settled by a spectator. He was given a drop, then watched the ball roll down from the Bank towards the stream as it is ready to strike. Because never, he founded his club - which has been his plan, given the lie on one side of a steep hill - he played the next time without penalty.
"Better off, worse lie," he said.
He managed a 6-iron just over the Green, hit more difficult chip he had all day to 7 feet and escapes with another. In the playoffs, however, Glover struck his tee shot in the middle and two row of 25 feet.
Byrd, that is passed a fairway bunker to the left hazard Green - just below flow - hit a difficult chip 25 by the hole and the wound with a bogey.
"I am just disappointed because you're here to win", said Byrd. "You love to do competition, especially when you get a series. You birdie the last, you feel like, "Hey, this is just going to work.".
"If I couldn't win, I couldn't choose someone else that I do not want to win other than Lucas, so I am very pleased for him."
Glover, who finished 15 - under 273, becomes the first player in the history of nine years of the tournament to display all of the four towers in the 1960s. He would have seen this entry.
Was going through a divorce for several months-"I'll probably leave that there, if it is all right," he said, refused to comment on his personal life - and had only one top 10 in the last year. He missed the cut in his last three events and had little confidence when it is presented in the quail hollow.
But he figured out Tuesday on the beach that the club was not square, he found better Wednesday in the pro-am and offshore, he went. This was not the US Open, although the way it has been tested in the last hour of a wild day, it was equally difficult.
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