He has longed for new success since 2016.
Now Charl Schwartzel, the 2011 US Masters winner, has succeeded.
He won the premiere of the controversial and Saudi-backed LIV tour at the Centurion Club in London.
The South African was back in the clubhouse with seven strokes under par, which was one better than compatriot Hennie du Plessis, and was rewarded with just over SEK 47 million.
- I never thought in my wildest dreams that we could play for so much money in golf, he says.
20 players have left the PGA for LIV, where the American Patrick Reed, also a US Masters winner, is the very latest.