A real Bethpage turner

0 Comments | USA TODAY, June, 2009 | by Steve DiMeglio

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Lucas Glover likes to get lost in a good story.

Nearly any tome will do for the avid reader, so during this wacky week at gloomy Bethpage Black, when relentless storms blew the U.S. Open into a Monday finish and turned the 7,426-yard track into a quagmire, Glover polished off four novels -- one by Clive Cussler, two by Stuart Woods and David Grann's The Lost City of Z, which he highly recommends.

But when the storm clouds finally blew away from Long Island, Glover authored his own compelling tale with a final-round finish that ruined fairy-tale endings for sentimental favorite Phil Mickelson and comeback kid David Duval.

With his cap tugged low, a large dip of tobacco under his lip and his heart rate high, Glover composed a perfect...