Wrap: Geezerdom In Greensboro As 51-Year-Old Love Wins!
/What is it about Greensboro and geezers? The same course where, as Helen Ross notes, Sam Snead won his 7th GGO at 52--and get this, his 7 wins were an amazing 27 years apart (1938-1960). Also the same course that tried to shove Tiger back into the winner's circle, helped Jason Gore make the playoffs, but ultimately opened the door to Davis Love. 
Jeff Mills with the game story in Greensboro’s News & Record Love’s positively stunning win at the Wyndham, making him the third oldest winner on a tour that had been turned over to the yutes of the world!
Bob Harig notes this step back in time just a week after the PGA at Whistling Straits.
A week ago it was Jason Day, 27, capturing the PGA Championship, with Jordan Spieth, 22, finishing runner-up after a dream year that saw him win two major titles. It was only then that he replaced Rory McIlroy, 26 -- a three-time worldwide winner this year -- atop the world rankings.
Then along comes Love, just a few months after foot surgery, winning for the 21st time on the PGA Tour in what is all but assuredly a Hall of Fame career. It had been seven years since his last victory, with plenty of doubts along the way about if he'd ever a hoist a trophy again.
Now he's headed to the FedEx Cup playoffs, winners-only Kapalua, the Masters and the Players, among other perks.
GolfChannel.com's Rex Hoggard with the backstory of Love wanting to thank his team, but really just needing to thank his son for breaking a putter.
“We could sit here until midnight and I could thank people, therapists, doctors, trainers, sports psychologists,” Love said Sunday at Sedgefield Country Club.
Even his son, Dru, received an assist from Love, who at 51 years young became the third-oldest winner in PGA Tour history.
“My son broke his putter; we haven’t gotten the whole story on that, so I shipped him some,” Love laughed. “After [foot] surgery, I went looking for a putter to use and the only one I could find was one of his old ones.”
The win by Love kept Brad Klein from losing faith in golf coverage, as he notes in his assessment of the CBS effort.
In the last two hours of Sunday’s telecast, I counted (actually, my stopwatch counted) exactly one hour and 26 minutes of live coverage, leaving 34 minutes for various ads and promotions. That’s 72 percent of airtime for golf and 28 percent for commercials. The average block of continuous golf coverage was 5:26; the average block of ads was 2:36.
At a certain point I began to fret that I was wasting my life watching the paid endorsements. But then I took solace watching Grandpa Davis win and realized there’s still time left to go out and achieve something admirable before I get too old.
While many will certainly brand Tiger's final round 70 and T10 a failure, I think the week was an enormous success.
Had he not played, he would have had the next six weeks until his mandatory Frys.com Open appearance to remember a poor PGA Championship week. Now he rests on some laurels that included contending. Remember, he came back this year off of surgery, hit rock bottom and just needed something to build on. Now he has that.
He also did wonders for his karma by playing a new course and responding to the fans (he took to Twitter to thank them, reports Nate Scott). Now he's seen what can happen if he goes to some fresh venues where he has no demons, preconceived notions, fears of certain holes, whatever it was that might derail him. He also saw that he can still get around a course requiring smarts and tactical strength, and just maybe that is his kind of golf in old age.
Speaking of that, he reported hip issues after the round. Bob Harig reports in this assessment of the week and year for Woods.
For Woods, 39, his 2014-15 season came to an end since he is not eligible for the FedEx Cup playoffs, finishing in 178th position. Only the top 125 players qualify for the playoffs.
Last year, Woods had surgery for a disk issue in his back. He missed three months, returned for four tournaments and then took another lengthy leave when problems surfaced again.
The PGA Tour highlights as well as the two aces from Love and Scott Brown.
