Hubbard's late birdie surge puts him atop Myrtle Beach Classic

On the Carolina coast, a journeyman golfer named Mark Hubbard stands one round away from the victory that has eluded him across 274 PGA Tour starts. His late surge of birdies at the Myrtle Beach Classic is less a story about a leaderboard than about what patience and self-knowledge can quietly build over years of near-misses. Behind him, a crowded field — including Brooks Koepka seeking his own reinvention — reminds us that in golf, as in life, the final chapter is never written until it is.