One week the PGA Tour winner was Ludvig Aberg, a Swede so supremely talented that he played in a Ryder Cup before his first major, entered the top 10 in the world ranking just nine months after he left college and has been there ever since.

Moments after making birdie on the second playoff hole at the Mexico Open to defeat South Africa’s Aldrich Potgieter, the 31-year-old golfer was joined on the course at Vidanta Vallarta by girlfriend Kelsi McKee, who leaped into his arms in an emotional scene.

The light-hitting veteran defeated 20-year-old prodigy Aldrich Potgieter in sudden-death playoff at the Mexican Open.