Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n
PONTE VEDRA, Fla. \u2014 When Lucas Glover won the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, it looked like he might turn out to be the quintessential one-hit-wonder journeyman.<\/p>\n
And for a while it appeared to go that way.<\/p>\n
Glover won again in 2011 then went some 10 years without a victory before winning in 2021 at the John Deere Classic. That breakthrough proved to be a rebirth for Glover, who would go on to win twice in 2023.<\/p>\n
Now, after Thursday\u2019s opening round of The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, the 45-year-old Glover has a share of the lead with Camilo Villegas, who hasn\u2019t won since 2014, and J.J. Spaun. All three are at 6-under-par after shooting 66s.<\/p>\n
They are trailed by Rory McIlroy, Billy Horschel and Min Woo Lee, who are 5-under par. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s a logjam of players at 4-under \u2014 including Alex Smalley, Stephan Jaeger, Aaron Rai, Bud Cauley, Denny McCarthy and Chandler Phillips.<\/p>\n
Two-time defending champion Scottie Scheffler, who\u2019s going for an unprecedented three-peat, is three shots off the lead after shooting 69.<\/p>\n
Asked about finding the \u201cfountain of youth,\u2019\u2019 Glover said, \u201cJust motivated, dedicated. I kind of just don\u2019t want to be done at 45, honestly.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He said his win in 2021 \u201ctold me I could do it, and then 2023 after changing to the long putter and proving myself there, I deep down believe I can still compete out here at 45 \u2026 and I don\u2019t want to stop anytime soon.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Glover\u2019s low round was accentuated by a number of top players struggling on the venerable Stadium Course. Viktor Hovland shot an 8-over-par 80, Max Homa shot 79, Justin Thomas and Matthew Fitzpatrick 78s and Tony Finau a 76.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the thing about this place: There\u2019s always some really good scores and always some really bad scores,\u2019\u2019 Glover said. \u201cThe margins are razor thin here, akin to say Augusta or Bay Hill. You get off just a little, you can make big numbers in a hurry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI happened to have a bunch of good numbers today and a bunch of good yardages and was able to be aggressive, and I putted great. Any time you get off to a good start, it gives you confidence.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Asked what the difference is in him at age 45, Glover said, \u201cFrom 10 years ago, 20 years ago, I get pretty ramped up out there. I get pretty excited. I have to rein that in sometimes. A place like here you\u2019ve got to rein in being too aggressive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still have those thoughts about missing short putts and hitting bad shots just like everybody else, but I\u2019ve got some tools in my brain and in my bag now that I can pull out when I\u2019m not feeling my best over a putt or over a shot that I probably didn\u2019t have 10 years ago or 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s probably the biggest difference \u2014 there\u2019s just a confidence in what I\u2019ve been able to do and learn.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Glover closed his round out in style, with birdies on the final four holes.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn 15, I had a great number, so that was a green light, on [par-5] 16, if you hit it in the fairway you feel like you should make a 4. I drew a good lie in the left rough. On 17, I happened to know a putt from years past hitting it there and over-reading it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen on 18, the wind switched and I had help all of a sudden. It was an 8-iron number and ended up hitting 9. Then gravity kind of took over for me and pulled it down there to the left, which it does to that hole location if you just get the right number.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic PONTE VEDRA, Fla. \u2014 When Lucas Glover won the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, it looked like he might turn out to be the quintessential one-hit-wonder journeyman. And for a while it appeared to go that way. Glover won again in 2011 then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239772,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239770\/revisions\/239772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}