Player Profiles

Lucas Glover

  • DOB: 12/11/1979
  • Birth Place: Greenville, South Carolina
  • Height: 6ft 2
Lucas Glover

Player Profile

Full US Open Form Guide
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2009's shock US Open hero did have something in common with other recent winners of this event - he is a big and strong hitter of the ball, capable of getting a long way down the massive par fours and also able to free himself from the thick rough when he did find it. Having jumped from relative obscurity to major winner he has subsequently shown himself adept at lifting his performance on the big occasion. He was fifth at the 2009 PGA Championship, third in the 2010 Players' Championship at Sawgrass and last month beat a world-class field to win the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow. That big change in fortunes was down to his putting and his vastly improved performances on the greens (he's currently 4th in the PGA Tour's new 'Strokes Gained - Putting' category having been 127th in 2010) makes him an interesting outsider here. The US Open has seen a number of repeat winners in the last 25 years - Curtis Strange, Payne Stewart, Lee Janzen, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen and Tiger Woods - and, given his current good form, Glover is capable of joining that list.

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Rors of approval

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Record breaker

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