It is the most beautiful of shapes, the circle. Especially when you are in the business of learning golf, playing golf, living and breathing golf, and making it your mission to surround yourself with like-minded people within the circle.

Let that serve as an introduction to Lucas Glover, whose world is red-hot these days.

Riding an uncanny resurgence in his putting game, Glover at 43 has posted back-to-back PGA Tour tournament wins and if you have followed his saga and get the sense that these are hugely popular victories, you are correct and here is why: Glover is 100 percent unfiltered genuine, doesn’t have a teaspoon of nonsense in his DNA, and there’s still a lot of folks out there who appreciate someone who doesn’t wear a golf glove or moan about mud balls or practice aimlessly unless he has his TrackMan beside him.

“He’s one of the few,” said Chris Harmon. “Just zero BS with Lucas.”

Chris Harmon is an entry point into this circle that represents the professional game stripped to its core. It’s a circle that demands you take ownership and show respect for the game and all those who’ve had a hand in its success.

Chris’ late father, Dick Harmon, was in the circle and his uncles, of course – Butch, Craig and Billy – remain steadfast members of the circle. But it includes others besides the famous sons of the iconic instructor and 1948 Masters champ, Claude Harmon, which is how Glover got introduced in the first place.

Grandson of the legendary Clemson football and baseball star Dick Hendley, Glover grew up in Greenville, S.C., and quickly took to his grandfather’s guidance when it came to hitting a golf ball. Didn’t matter what club was in his hand, Lucas Glover could flat-out stripe it and when Hendley figured he had done all he could for the son of his only daughter, Hershey Glover, he turned to another proud son of Greenville who knew something about golf.

Jay Haas was aware of Glover, of course, and suggested Dick Hendley take his grandson to see Dick Harmon and David Leadbetter. “We went to see Dick and never made it to David,” said Glover. “Nothing against David; just fell in love with Dick and that was most of that conversation.”

Haas is not a Harmon, but he very well could be. He’s that tight, that similar, and to continue to delve into the circle, consider this: Haas’ uncle, the great Bob Goalby, another Masters champion, knew Claude Harmon well. Old-school tough, Goalby was a product of the Great Depression and believed in hard work, not excuses.

When Goalby taught his nephew how to play, he showed him basics that Claude Harmon championed and it wasn’t long before this circle of no-nonsense, wise-cracking golf lifers was widened.

When 12-year-old Lucas Glover entered the picture, a visitor to Houston moving in with the Harmon family for a few summer weeks, Dick Harmon’s two sons, Ricky and Chris, sized him up and promptly knew there was something special.

“From the get-go, we knew what you get is what you see with Lucas,” said Ricky. “None of that pre-fabricated stuff.”

Polite, well-mannered, and voraciously attentive when it came to instruction and rules of the house, Lucas fit in beautifully, not only with Ricky and Chris, but with Dick Harmon’s wife, Nancy, and their daughters, Heidi and Mary.

But the boys make one thing abundantly clear. This part was not Dick Harmon’s tutelage. “Lucas already had that,” said Ricky. “He was brought up (by Hershey and by her father, Dick Hendley) to be a good, young man.”

Sizing up putts for Lucas Glover suddenly isn't the difficult task it was for so many years. (Photo by Alex Miceli.)

At the end of his second year on the PGA Tour, in just his 56th start, Glover won the Disney tournament. The kid had won every amateur tournament there was to win in South Carolina and had had a sterling four-year career at Clemson, all of it under the watchful eyes of Dick Harmon.

“Lucas knew he had that incredible ball-striking talent and my dad used to tell him he had it,” said Chris. “There was just a different sound when he hit it.”

So beautiful, this partnership, at least until it wasn’t. The great Dick Harmon died suddenly in February of 2006. He was in Palm Springs, Calif., because that was an annual winter gathering spot for all the Harmon boys and for Goalby and Haas and his two sons.

Golf was their life, this circle of brothers and friends. Playing it, sharing it, teaching it. There were wisecracks, most definitely. Always, there were wisecracks.

“My dad would ask me when I got home from whatever tournament I was in, ‘What did you shoot?’ And I would tell him, ’82,’ ” said Chris, “and he would say to me, ‘Wow. Where’d you make all your birdies?’ ”

Lucas Glover spoke at Dick Harmon’s services in 2006. Three years later he won the U.S. Open, then in 2011 he triumphed at one of the PGA Tour’s sternest tests, the Quail Hollow Club. Yes, he could still ball-strike it with the best of them and always he could fall back on invaluable advice bestowed upon him by his beloved teacher.

But what was first and foremost with Lucas Glover was the way in which he carried himself.

“Lucas had soaked it all in (hanging around with the Harmons and Goalby and Haas and so many other older pros). He learned how to play, how to act,” said Chris Harmon.

So when for an inexplicably long stretch, 10 or 11 years, Glover struggled with the putter and even fought the yips over the easiest of tap-ins, he never made excuses and never considered packing it in. Instead, midway through this season he ordered a broomstick putter and disappeared into his garage to figure out how to use it.

Clearly, he has found a comfort zone because in his last six starts Glover has the two wins, a fourth, a fifth, and a sixth. A run at the FedExCup and possibly his first Ryder Cup are very real for Glover, who maintains tight ties to the circle.

Example: Glover’s caddie, Tommy Lamb, worked for years for Jay Haas and also for Brad Faxon, who is Lucas’ putting guru.

And this: Glover’s friendship with Ricky and Chris Harmon is 30-plus years old and stronger than ever.

“I was in Greensboro (for the Wyndham Championship win August 6. I just had a feeling,” said Chris.

“When he won, Lucas naturally talked about his grandfather looking down. (August 6 would have been Dick Hendley’s 97th birthday.) So I texted him later and wrote, ‘I know someone else who was looking down,’ and Lucas immediately texted back: ‘I’m assuming they have the same first names.' "

So as the Glover momentum builds and his enormous lobby of family, friends, and fans celebrate, let’s take a moment, then, to remember the late Dick Harmon. Words offered by Glover himself several years ago still resonate:

“He made me feel like a Harmon and the rest of them have, too, from Butch to Craig to Billy (the three remaining brothers) and Claude III (Butch’s son). It’s still a lasting relationship because they’ve been nothing but great for me.

“If it’s possible, they’re better people than they are teachers.”

Similarly, we know it’s possible that Glover is a better person than he is a golfer.