Glover Wins Wyndham Championship. Thomas Season Ends by Inches.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Lucas Glover did greater than lengthen his PGA Tour season Sunday. He received the Wyndham Championship with a 2-under 68 that sends him into the FedEx Cup playoffs with extra massive alternatives in entrance of him.

Glover managed a two-hour rain delay and took benefit of a faltering Russell Henley to win for the primary time in additional than two years and earn an unlikely spot within the profitable postseason.

Justin Thomas ended his season with a shot he will not quickly overlook. Needing a birdie on the 18th gap, his pitch from 100 toes wanting the outlet smacked off the bottom of the pin and settled inches away as Thomas fell to the bottom in disbelief.

Now he has to attend three weeks to see if his worst season — that is the primary time Thomas has didn’t make the playoffs — will value him a choose for the U.S. Ryder Cup crew.

Glover now has 5 PGA Tour wins separated by 18 years, and there may not have been one other aside from deciding to change to an extended putter, a transfer impressed by Adam Scott. He had been battling the yips, and he made each essential putt at Sedgefield Nation Membership.

The Wyndham Championship is the ultimate match earlier than the highest 70 qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs that begin subsequent week in Memphis, Tennessee. Glover was at No. 112, an extended shot who wanted nothing wanting a runner-up end.

He did one higher, pulling away after the rain delay with loads of assist from Henley.

It was the second time in three years that Henley let one get away at Sedgefield. When play resumed, he took the lead with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 fifteenth, after which every part went flawed in a bogey-bogey-bogey end.

His mediocre tee shot on the par-3 sixteenth got here down the slope on the entrance of the inexperienced and took yet another flip right into a deep divot gap. He chopped that out to 35 toes and made bogey. He despatched his tee shot on the seventeenth into the bushes, and his subsequent shot buried in a deep gap in thick tough. He needed to scramble for bogey.

After which on the closing gap, his strategy from the green got here up brief and rolled off the inexperienced. He pitched to 18 toes and two-putted. He had gone 21 straight holes and not using a bogey and completed with three straight for a 69.

Two years in the past, he had 4 bogeys over the past eight holes and missed a playoff by one shot.

“Simply by no means bought snug, felt slightly jittery on the market, simply by no means bought into an excellent sync with my swing,” Henley mentioned. “Simply didn’t do an excellent job of dealing with the restart.”

Henley tied for second with Byeong Hun An (67). Billy Horschel, who shared the 54-hole lead with Glover, did not make a birdie till the ultimate gap. He shot 72 and completed alone in fourth.

Glover by no means preferred the thought of the PGA Tour dropping the quantity from 125 to 70 gamers who advance to the playoffs. Now he is No. 49 with the victory, and if he can keep within the prime 50 after subsequent week, the 43-year-old will probably be eligible for all of the signature $20 million occasions in 2024.

Profitable is what mattered extra, particularly having his two youngsters, Lucille and Lucas Jr., come out to the inexperienced. “Daddy, you received!” the son mentioned. His daughter was in tears.

“I am too outdated to be on the highway this a lot,” Glover mentioned. “I have been busting my hump to be with them, be with my spouse. I am so joyful.”

Thomas made a 15-foot eagle putt on the fifteenth gap, solely to catch a robust gust as storms had been shifting in on the par-3 sixteenth, sending his ball down the hill and resulting in bogey. He in massive bother on the 18th when he pulled his tee shot onto the pine straw, blocked by bushes. However he hit a tough hook, twisting his physique 180 levels on affect, simply wanting the inexperienced.

The pitch took a number of hops and appeared like it might disappear into the outlet till the bottom of the pin saved it out. He needed to accept a 68 and an extended three weeks of ready.

Zach Johnson will get six captain’s picks, and the query is whether or not Thomas has accomplished sufficient in his two earlier Ryder Cup appearances — or confirmed sufficient in a single week — to advantage a choose.

The seventieth and last spot went to Ben Griffin, who missed the minimize. He completed 9 factors forward of Thomas. Adam Scott closed with a 63 and missed the postseason for the primary time for the reason that FedEx Cup started in 2007.

That leaves Matt Kuchar as the one participant eligible for the playoffs yearly since 2007.

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