Bob Gillespie

CHARLOTTE WALKING DOWN QUAIL Hollow Club’s 16th fairway late Sunday afternoon, Lucas Glover made a beeline to the left rough, approached CBS-TV spotter Andrew Ladson and, with a grin, asked him ... about his goatee.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND All good things must come to an end, right? Well ... not necessarily. Two hours before Brian Gay tapped in at Harbour Town Golf Links’ 18th hole Sunday to wrap up his record 20-under-par 264 and clinch the 2009 Verizon Heritage title, the people’s champion made his way up the same picturesque fairway. He heard cheers and, for him, “boos,” and tipped his cap to the greenside skyboxes, kissing it twice for emphasis.

AUGUSTA THIS WAS WHAT Sunday at the Masters is supposed to be about. This was the sort of duel that produces golf history amid the pines and dogwoods. This was the world’s best player, and he who would unseat him, throwing birdies at one another while passionate crowds cheered and sighed at each emotional high and low.

Standing at midfield of Clemson’s Memorial Stadium on this rainy Saturday, Jeff Scott flashed back half his 27 years, recalling his first South Carolina-Clemson game here.