As Tiger Woods stepped up to the 18-hole destiny was just a golf stroke away.
Two months previously he had lost his father and as Woods stood on the sandy brown green there was silence in the crowd. He was at the peak of his game and he gently putted the ball home.
The usually reserved Woods broke down in tears and the moment is now remembered as one of the most famous in golfing history and it happened at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake.