Maybe if Moses had traded in his old staff for a new one and found a different burning bush to pump him up, those 40 years of wandering around in the desert might have been cut down considerably.

Lucas Glover had been following along the same path as Moses for the last ten years, until he made some changes.

Early in the spring, Glover got a new putter and heard a new voice helping him take advantage of the skills he had developed as a 20-year pro with a Major Championship to his credit.

Glover won his second straight PGA Tour event with the victory at the Fed/EX St.Jude Championship.

It marked another great week of golf for the PGA Tour member from Greenville.

Long considered, and proven by PGA Tour stats, to be one of the best ball strikers in the world, Glover struggled to play at the highest level of golf with putting problems, better known to golfers as the “yips.”

Tee to green, Glover was in control. Once on the green, 6 to 10 feet was no-mans land and sometimes it shrunk to as little as two feet.

“For ten years I underachieved and I knew it, all because of putting. I guess I was stubborn enough to never give up. I never thought about that, I knew I would figure it out,” he said.

Glover never stopped working to fix his problem for the better part of ten years with little success. It was kind of his wandering in a desert of golf courses.

“Somedays it was hard to go to the range. You work hard no matter what,” Glover said. “You never know when it is going to turn for you and it turned quickly for me.,” he added.

Last spring, before the Memorial Tournament, Glover cast aside the norms and went looking for answers in places not usually visited by even desperate pros.

First he found it with a new putter you would be hard pressed to find in a golf shop. The L.A.B Mezz.1 Max is the name of the putter.

“Once you stand behind it the rest of it pretty well takes care of itself,” he said.

The second change didn’t come from a golf shop.

Former college pitcher and Navy SEAL Jason Kuhn had experienced his sports version of the “Yips” and told Glover he had been where he was and knew how to fix the problem.

“It’s going to be different than anything you’ve ever heard. I’m going to take you to a different place,” Kuhn told Glover.

The 2009 US Open Champion was ready to hear what he had to say.

“It took something drastic, but it worked. It was night and day different. I just needed to hear what he had to say, that this should rewire your brain a little bit,” he recalled.

Kuhn got Glover to realize he was mentally tough enough to keep coming back to the course, even with his problem and the “yips” were not an embarrassment or could be willed away.

“It’s more of a scientific understanding of what was happening. It’s more of a central nervous system issue than a brain thing. I’d never had it explained to me scientifically,” said Glover.

The first sign things were changing were the numbers on Glover’s scorecards. Lots of 60s, lots of top-10s, but the break out win was still a few weeks down the road.

Glover’s season accomplishments had him well outside the Fed/EX playoff field as well as outside the top 125 to make sure he could play in 2024.

It all changed at the Wyndham when he won. The way he won showed the new putter helped his on course game and the new ideas from Kuhn helped make the putter work better.

Down the stretch the kind of routine short putts that had bedeviled Glover kept going in.

A pair of crucial late round par saves helped Glover win in Greensboto and put him into the Fed/Ex Cup playoffs and made sure he would play on the Tour in 2024.

At the BMW, Glover didn’t have his best tee to green game, but again a pair of critical putts late in the round led to a spot in a playoff against Patrick Cantlay and after one extra hole, his second straight win.

When Glover started his changes he was in the 170 range in the ranking, after the win in Memphis he was fourth.

There are two tournaments left in the playoffs. Glover has already secured one of the top spots on the PGA Tour next year and still could be the Fed/EX champion after the final event at East Lake.

There is one more prize in addition to the Fed/EX Cup ahead of Glover and all the top golfers, the Ryder Cup.

The former Clemson All-American said he had not thought about it until after his win in Memphis.

“I’ve never made it (the team) and I want to. I’m playing pretty good golf. I would be good in the team room and I would be a good partner,” as Glover made his case to be one of the six picks Ryder Cup Captain Zach Johnson will make at the end of the playoffs.

The Wade Hampton High School grad is known as a voracious reader. With as much fiction Glover enjoys reading he knows how improbable his quick rise to the top of the PGA Tour has been.

“If you told me this three months ago I would have said you were crazy” said Glover, but no one should have any trouble believing that the best comeback story in golf this year could continue and end with Glover lifting the Fed/Ex Cup.