Glover continues improbable run with St Jude playoff win; Smith tops LIV field in Bedminster

After winning last week’s PGA Tour regular-season finale, Lucas Glover said TPC Southwind, the next stop on tour, was one of the more underrated courses the pros play each year.He was glad to be making that trip at all. Now he’s doubled his pleasure by making it two wins in two weeks.Glover parred the first playoff hole to defeat Patrick Cantlay and claim the FedEx St Jude Championship title on Sunday in Memphis, Tenn.Glover, 43, won last week’s Wyndham Championship to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs at the last possible moment. He jumped from No. 112 to No. 49 in the FedEx Cup standings – and Sunday’s victory in the first of three playoff events has rocketed him up to No. 4."You work hard no matter what, whether you’re fighting something or you’re playing great,” Glover said on the CBS broadcast. "You just work hard because you never know when it can turn, and it’s turned very quickly for me. Luckily I’ve been in a good frame of mind to take advantage of it.”The only players ahead of Glover in the points standings now are arguably the three best players in the world: Jon Rahm of Spain, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland. Cantlay, whose tee shot at the first playoff hole found a water hazard, moved up to No. 5 thanks to his finish.Glover beat not only Cantlay, but the likes of McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Max Homa, Collin Morikawa and Norway’s Viktor Hovland on Sunday."I said yesterday the guns would be coming, and they came,” Glover said. "I was just last man standing this week.”Cameron Smith runs away with LIV Bedminster title Cameron Smith of Australia posted a 3-under-par 68 to complete a wire-to-wire victory at LIV Golf Bedminster on Sunday in Bedminster, New Jersey.Smith’s three-day total of 12-under 201 was seven shots better than India’s Anirban Lahiri, who had a final-round 70 at Trump National Golf Club. It is Smith’s second win in as many months after prevailing at the LIV event outside London in July."I played two really good days of golf, so there’s no reason for me to go out there today and have 5- or 6-over and give the tournament away,” Smith said. "It was just about getting back to what we know.” The team Smith captains, the all-Australian Ripper GC, also picked up its first-ever victory in the team competition. Ripper ran away with the title at 20 under thanks to Smith’s score, along with Jediah Morgan’s 5-under 66 and Matt Jones’ 1-under 70 Sunday.Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers GC and the all-South African Stinger GC finished a distant second at 9 under.Smith, who led the tournament by one shot after the first round and by four after Saturday, opened his final round with a bogey 5 and picked up another at No. 3. But the major champion birdied the par-4 sixth hole before rolling in three more at Nos. 8-10. He would not bogey again, adding one last birdie at the par-5 15th.