CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Lucas Glover figures he has played more than 100 rounds with Jonathan Byrd, from junior golf when they were teenagers to their years together at Clemson and nearly a decade on the PGA Tour.

The stakes were never as high as they were Sunday in the Wells Fargo Championship.

Glover was never better.

Clinging to a one-shot lead, Glover closed with three gutsy pars during the brutal finishing stretch at Quail Hollow, slamming his fist when he made the last one from 7 feet for a 3-under 69 and what looked to be a sure win. Then came Byrd, with two great pars of his own, followed by a shot into 15 feet that he made for birdie on the 18th for a 72 to force a playoff.

Glover wound up a winner with a par on the first extra hole, ending a drought of 41 tournaments that stretched nearly two years back to his U.S. Open win at Bethpage Black in 2009.

It was the eighth playoff this year on the PGA Tour, and the third in a row.

“I’m elated,” Glover said. “Any time you win, you’re pleased. It means you beat everybody. You did what you set out to do on Thursday morning when the bell range. Against this field and on this golf course and in a tournament of this magnitude, I’m thrilled.”

And against one of his best friends?

That might have helped. Glover, in his first PGA Tour playoff, felt a sense of calmness playing against Byrd, who had won his last two tournaments in extra holes.

In other Sunday events:

Lehman wins Champions Tour’s first major

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Tom Lehman won the Regions Tradition for his third victory in seven Champions Tour events this year, beating Peter Senior with a par on the second hole of a playoff. Senior, from Australia, missed a 5-foot par putt when it lipped out on No. 18. Lehman two-putted from about 20 feet, polishing off his second bogey-free day at the first Champions Tour major of the season.

Bulldog wins Nationwide event on home course

ATHENS, Ga. — University of Georgia senior Russell Henley became the second amateur winner in Nationwide Tour history, shooting a 3-under 68 for a two-stroke victory in the Stadion Classic on the Bulldogs’ home course. The three-time All-America selection finished at 12-under 272 on the University of Georgia Golf Course.

South African takes Spanish Open

TERRASSA, Spain — South Africa’s Thomas Aiken won the Spanish Open for his first European Tour title, a victory he dedicated to Spanish great Seve Ballesteros. Ballesteros died Saturday from complications of a cancerous brain tumor. Aiken shot a 2-under 70 at Real Golf Club El Prat for a 10-under 278 total. Denmark’s Anders Hansen (70) was second, two strokes back. Scotland’s Scott Jamieson (71) and Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal (71) were another stroke back.