PHOENIX -- Steve Alker has never known this life.
At 51, he's a golf star, words which have never been written about him before, after decades of toiling in anonymity on golf's fringes.
And now he's sitting in front of a camera, a microphone hanging above his head, with Phoenix Country Club laid out beyond a window behind him, answering questions about coming out of the golf shadows and onto the precipice of a Charles Schwab Cup championship.
Three times Alker has earned and lost his PGA Tour card after just one year -- the first time coming in 2003 as a 32-year-old.