He had to settle for a 68 and a long three weeks of waiting. The pitch took a few hops and looked like it would disappear into the hole until the base of the pin kept it out. But he hit a hard hook, twisting his body 180 degrees on impact, just short of the green. He looked to be in big trouble on the 18th when he pulled his tee shot onto the pine straw, blocked by trees. Thomas made a 15-foot eagle putt on the 15th hole, only to catch a strong gust as storms were moving in on the par-3 16th, sending his ball down the hill and leading to bogey. “I’ve been busting my hump to be with them, be with my wife. “I’m too old to be on the road this much,” Glover said. Winning is what mattered more to Glover, especially having his two children, Lucille and Lucas Jr., come out to the green. Billy Horschel, who shared the 54-hole lead with Glover, didn’t make a birdie until the final hole. Henley tied for second with Byeong Hun An (67). “Just didn’t do a good job of handling the restart.” “Just never got comfortable, felt a little jittery out there, just never got into a good sync with my swing,” Henley said. He sent his tee shot on the 17th into the trees, and his next shot buried in a deep hole in thick rough. He chopped that out to 35 feet and made bogey. His mediocre tee shot on the par-3 16th came down the slope at the front of the green and took one more turn into a deep divot hole. When play resumed, he took the lead with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 15th, and then everything went wrong in a bogey-bogey-bogey finish. It was the second time in three years that Henley let one get away at Sedgefield. He had been battling the yips, and he made every important putt at Sedgefield Country Club. Glover now has five PGA Tour wins separated by 18 years, and there might not have been another except for deciding to switch to a long putter, a move inspired by Adam Scott. “I did everything I could,” Thomas said when he finished. Now he has to wait three weeks to see if his worst season - this is the first time Thomas has failed to make the playoffs - will cost him a pick for the U.S. Standing at the back of the green, he saw a video board project him at No. His birdie chip checked and hopped against the base of the pin and stayed out. Thomas needed one more birdie to get into the top 70. Glover finished with four pars, getting one good break when his tee shot on the 18th bounced off a cart driven by security and went into the rough, keeping it out of the trees. What he did was keep his poise amid a two-hour storm delay when he had four holes left and was locked in a battle with Henley.
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