Gold Glover

Monday finally brought the conclusion to the U.S. Open golf/swimming tournament. While congratulations have to go out to Lucas Glover for holding on to the lead without the need of a canoe, it also feels as though sympathy and condolences need to be given out.

The fact is that many people are going to remember this tournament for a couple things besides Lucas Glover holding the trophy, and a bunch of websites using the cheesy line "fits like a glove."

The first thing everyone is going to remember is the opportunity that Phil Mickelson had and could not win for his wife who is battling breast cancer. Many though Phil was either going to win or struggle this weekend. Until late bogeys in the final round he had that chance to win.

It is nothing against Glover winning. With the exception of a few players such as Tiger, and maybe Rocco Mediate or David Duval, every fan and casual golf person was pulling for Phil to win his first U.S. Open this year. any other week and Glover winning would be a nice story, just not this week.

The other issue behind it the fact the weather will be remembered more the Glover's name by many. There is nothing a person hates more then a wet dreary day when they want to play golf. It gets even worse when the golf fans have to watch and pray for no more rain at a major championship. Bethpage Black is an amazing course, and it would have been even better to see it without reservoirs by the greens.

On a slightly lesser note it may not help Lucas Glover that the headline just below him for the day was the retirement of former Pro Bowl Defensive Tackle La'Roi Glover. Glover retires after 13 seasons with six Pro Bowls and 87.5 sacks. Might not take too much attention away from Lucas Glover (no relation), but still needed to be mentioned.

Despite all these other issue Hard Knox Sports would like to tip our hat, and give a long golf clap to Lucas Glover for winning the U.S. Open at a course that was considered to be one of the toughest by all except for Ben Roethlisberger. Big Ben shot an 81 on the difficult course a week before the U.S. Open. See, yet another story taking away spotlight from Lucas Glover.