Lucas Glover shot a 7-under 63 on Thursday and achieved something only Tiger Woods has done in recent years.

The 46-year-old is tied for the first-round lead at the ISCO Championship for the second week in a row. According to the PGA Tour's official X account on July 10, he is the first player over 40 to hold or share an 18-hole lead in back-to-back PGA Tour events since Tiger Woods did it in 2018.

"In my 23rd year out here, I wouldn't trade it for the world," Glover said. "I do what I love and love what I do and love to practise and compete. I just like playing golf."

The ISCO Championship is being played at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, Ky. Glover shares the lead at 7 under with Troy Merritt, Steven Fisk, and Germany's Stephan Jaeger. It is Glover's second consecutive opening-round 63. He shot the same score to open the John Deere Classic last week, where he finished tied for third.

Glover further spoke after the round, keeping his assessment simple.

"Very similar to last week, the first couple days, hit it nice, made some putts and no bogeys," Glover said. "Always a good way to start. First time here at this course. Absolutely love it."

Glover had not shot a round better than 67 on Tour all year until he went 63-65 to open the John Deere Classic last week. He birdied the final two holes at Hurstbourne to get to 7 under on Thursday. The back-to-back 63s are the strongest stretch of scoring he has produced in the 2026 season.

He has six career PGA Tour wins, with half of them coming since 2021. His most celebrated title remains the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black as he currently sits at No. 91 in the world rankings.

Glover is on pace to reach 600 career starts next season, and his comments on Thursday made clear that the motivation to keep going has not faded.

Glover and his hot streak trace back to a discovery he made at the Travelers

Glover told reporters after the round that the current run of form traces back to something he found during the Travelers Championship outside Hartford.

He said that discovery has been carrying his game ever since, and he brought it straight to the John Deere and now to Louisville.

"I've been hitting it good for a couple of weeks," Glover said, according to GolfChannel. "I took it to the Deere and brought it here, and it just seems to be clicking; I need to hit a few more fairways the rest of the week. I missed several fairways with fairway woods, which is unlike me, so got to clean that up a little bit."

He finished the round at Hurstbourne by making an 11-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th, then hitting a 163-yard shot to 3 feet on the par-4 18th to close out the 63.

Those two closing birdies were a fitting end to a bogey-free round. 

With two weeks of red-hot golf and a share of the lead at the ISCO, can Glover go all the way this week? Tell us in the comments.

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Written by

Sneha Abraham

Edited by

Zaid Quraishi