Glover Comes Through...

Congrats to Lucas Glover for winning the recent U.S. Open at Bethpage Black. I've always thought he had a lot of game and frankly, he would have been in maybe my top five darkhorses with a chance to win. He's not a flash in the pan, and I seriously doubt he's going to fade away and never win again. Just the opposite, I think he has more wins ahead of him, and will be a very steady player for years to come.

But seriously though, what happened to Tiger's putting? Time after time, he hit quality shots on Sunday and Monday, but kept missing the putts. More often than not, he hit a good putt that was just barely off and wouldn't go in. A few were misreads I guess but especially on Monday they all looked pretty pure. It really seems like he makes those type of putts only when he's leading a tournament as opposed to when he's trailing. Why is that I wonder? Everyone knows he has yet to win coming from behind on the last day of a major. That's quite an odd stat because it's not like he doesn't play well enough to win. It's just that, as we saw last weekend, the must-have putts drop when he's ahead, and don't when he's behind. Kind of strange...