Nationwide Tour In 2001, Glover turned professional. He joined the
Nationwide Tour in 2002, making 7 of 12 cuts while recording two top-10 finishes and five top-25 finishes in his rookie season. He earned $64,692 and finished 67th on the money list. Glover went to PGA Tour
qualifying school for the first time where he finished tied for 39th which was not good enough to earn his tour card. 2003 was Glover's breakthrough year on the Nationwide Tour. He made 17 of 26 cuts while recording six top-10 finishes and 7 top-25 finishes. He picked up his first Nationwide Tour win at the
Gila River Classic at Wild Horse Pass Resort. This win helped Glover finish 17th on the money list with $193,989. Glover's high finish on the money list earned him his PGA Tour card for 2004.
PGA Tour In his rookie season on tour, Glover made 17 of 30 cuts while recording two top-10s and five top-25s. His best finishes came at the
Wachovia Championship and the
FUNAI Classic at the Walt Disney World Resort where he finished in a tie for 10th. He earned $557,454 and finished 134th on the money list, just shy of the top 125 which would have earned him his tour card for 2005. This forced him to go back to Q-School, although he was ultimately able to regain his card. Glover had a much better second year on tour. He made 16 of 28 cuts while recording 7 top-10 finishes and 9 top-25 finishes. He picked up his first PGA Tour victory at the
FUNAI Classic at the Walt Disney World Resort in dramatic fashion by holing a 35-yard bunker shot on the 18th hole for birdie to avoid a playoff with
Tom Pernice Jr. Glover went on to finish 30th on the money list with earnings of $2,050,068. Despite not winning an event in 2006, Glover played well on tour. He made 23 of 31 cuts and finished in the top-10 9 times and the top-25 17 times. His most impressive finish came at the
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational where he finished in a tie for fourth. Another impressive finish came at
The Tour Championship where he finished in a tie for eighth. He also made his first cut in a major at the
PGA Championship where he finished in a tie for 46th. Glover earned $2,587,982 in 2006 and finished 31st on the money list. He was ranked in and out of the top 50 of
Official World Golf Rankings during the year. 2007 was another good year for Glover. He made the cut in 22 of 29 events and recorded three top-10s and 13 top-25s. His best finish came at the
PODS Championship where he finished in a tie for fourth. Glover earned $1,664,167 on the year and finished 53rd on the money list. He was selected for the
2007 Presidents Cup where the United States defeated the International team 19½ to 14½. Glover went 2–3 in his matches. 2008 was not as successful as previous years for Glover. He made 20 of 26 cuts but only recorded two top-10s and eight top-25s. His best finishes came at the
Verizon Heritage and the
Buick Open where he finished in a tie for 7th. He earned $998,491 in 2008 and finished 105th on the money list. In February, Glover finished in a tie for third at the
Buick Invitational. In May, he finished in a tie for second at the
Quail Hollow Championship.
2009 U.S. Open Glover won the
2009 U.S. Open at the
Bethpage Black Course (
Farmingdale, New York) by two strokes over
Phil Mickelson,
Ricky Barnes, and
David Duval. He was a surprise winner of the event, being ranked 71st in the
Official World Golf Ranking and never having made a cut in his three previous U.S. Open appearances. Glover was one of just a handful of players who won the U.S. Open after having to play in a sectional qualifier. He shot a second round 64, tying the low round of the week with
Mike Weir. Glover entered the final round one stroke behind 54-hole leader
Ricky Barnes but in tough conditions on Monday's final round, both Glover and Barnes struggled. Coming to the 16th hole, Glover was 4 over for the day without a birdie but that would soon change. He hit his approach shot to within 6 feet of the hole and made the putt to take a lead he would not relinquish. After sinking a 3-foot putt for par on 18, Glover won by a margin of two strokes. The win propelled him to 18th in the world rankings. Glover would be honored for his U.S. Open win at a Clemson Alumni Association meeting in Greenville at
Fluor Field the following month. He was the first Clemson graduate and the first native South Carolinian to win a major professional golf championship.
Continued PGA Tour career After his victory at Bethpage, Glover finished in a tie for 11th at the
Travelers Championship the following week. The week after that, Glover finished in a tie for 5th at the
AT&T National, moving Glover into the top 10 of the money list. In August, Glover finished 5th at the
PGA Championship. In October 2009, Glover won the
PGA Grand Slam of Golf in
Bermuda. The event featured the four major winners of 2009, Glover,
Ángel Cabrera,
Stewart Cink and
Y. E. Yang. Glover won the two-day event by five strokes over Cabrera. Glover also earned his second President's Cup bid. On May 8, 2011, Glover defeated
Jonathan Byrd, another former Clemson star, in a playoff to win the
Wells Fargo Championship. This was his first official win on Tour since the
2009 U.S. Open. A left knee injury limited Glover to 16 events in 2012. He made six cuts with a season best of T46. He did not lose his Tour card due to the fact that he had two years remaining on the exemption from his U.S. Open win. Glover finished the 2014–15 season 147th in the FedEx Cup. His exemptions for winning the U.S. Open and Wells Fargo Championship had run out. Glover had to either regain his PGA Tour card through the
Web.com Tour Finals or play out of the conditional (126th–150th in the FedEx Cup) category for the 2015–16 season. Glover finished 14th in the finals, regaining his Tour card. Glover earned $948,927 during the
2015–16 PGA Tour Season. He finished 106th in the
FedEx Cup and kept his PGA Tour card. His best finish was 8th in the
Wells Fargo Championship. Glover earned $1,955,822 in 26 events during the
2016–17 PGA Tour Season. He finished 43rd in the season long
FedEx Cup and kept his PGA Tour card. His best finish was third in the
Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Glover finished the
2017–18 PGA Tour Season 135th in the season long
FedEx Cup. He made $789,382 in 18 tournaments, with 15 made cuts. Glover returned to the
Web.com Tour Finals, where he finished 8th, thus regaining his PGA Tour card for the 2018–19 PGA Tour season. Glover started the
2018–19 PGA Tour Season with a T17 at the
Safeway Open and T14 at the
Sanderson Farms Championship. On November 3, 2018, during the third round of the
Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, Glover shot 61 (10-under-par). He started his round with a bogey at the 10th but managed seven birdies and a pair of eagles from that point on. This matched his career-low round on the PGA Tour (9-under 61 in round 2 of the 2016
Wyndham Championship). Glover entered the final round in third place. In the fourth round, Glover shot 71 and finished in T7. Glover then finished in the top 12 finishers in 5 of his next 6 PGA Tour starts, this included a T4 at the 2019
Honda Classic. As of March 12, 2019, Glover had earned $1,372,193 for the season, good for 23rd on the money list. In June 2023, after years of struggling with the
yips while putting, Glover switched from a traditional putter to a longer putter similar to the one used by
Adam Scott. This led to a drastic improvement in results for Glover, including three consecutive top-10 finishes in July. In August 2023, Glover won the
Wyndham Championship by two shots. In the final round, he shot two-under-par 68, for rounds of 66, 64, 62, 68 for a 20-under-par total. The win secured Glover a place in the season ending FedExCup Playoffs. One week later, Glover won the
FedEx St. Jude Championship in a playoff over
Patrick Cantlay. With the win, Glover became the 3rd player in his 40s to win back-to-back weeks on PGA Tour in the last 25 years. ==Personal life==