PGA TOUR: Cameron Champ leads Fall Swing’s most dominant players
By Bill Felber
Several of the players on this list could fairly be described as journeymen: veterans who see the fall tour as a chance for paychecks that may get tougher to snag when the fields stiffen in the spring and summer.
That description also fits Lucas Glover, with one glaring exception. Unlike those other tour regulars – in fact unlike all nine of the other players on this list – he has a major championship to his name. Glover’s three career tour victories include the 2009 U.S. Open.
That was obviously the highlight for Glover, who in the intervening decade hasn’t approached the nearly $3.7 million he won that year. But hope springs eternal. In 18 starts last season, Glover won less than $800,000, but the 39 year-old Clemson grad topped $500,000 on the fall tour alone.
Glover did it with five remarkably solid finishes, ranging from a tie for seventh at the Shriners to a tie for 17th at the Safeway. He was, in other words, the definition of “steady, not spectacular.”
In all five events, he performed at least a half standard deviation better than the field average. His -0.91 average is usually good for the second ten in a typical 70-person PGA Tour field, which is basically what Glover did week in and week out.