With tears flowing, the 27-year-old Australian Jason Day won his first major by three shots with a record 20-under at Whistling Straits.
And to make it a superb double for international golf, 22-year-old Jordan Spieth became the newest and youngest world number one.
They played together at the tail of the PGA Championship field to produce sensational shot-making. Shooting 68, 67, 66 and 67, Day had seven birdies and just two bogeys on his card in very difficult conditions on the final day.
Spieth, seeking his third major of the year, shot 71, 67, 65 and 68, finishing with six birdies and two bogeys.
“I didn’t expect to cry,” was Day’s comment at the presentation.
“But to play like that on the final day was special.”
Indeed it was, as Day joined four other Australians who have lifted the huge Wanamaker Trophy – Jim Ferrier (1947), David Graham (1979), Wayne Grady (1990), and Steve Elkington (1995).
The pair virtually had the fate of the PGA Championship in their hands, even though Justin Rose and Branden Grace had a run at them during the day.
South African Grace finished 15-under, and would have been more of a threat had he not doubled the 10th.
Englishman Rose finished at 14 under, having doubled the 13th and bogeyed the last.
But the extraordinary round of the day belonged to Dustin Johnson.
He quadrupled bogeyed the first, bogeyed three, four, and 17, but fired in two eagles and six birdies to finish at 12-under.
Rory McIlroy had to finish among the top 10 to retain his world number one status.
But when he parred the last, he was one shot shy, and Spieth became the 18th man to hold the honour since its inception in 1986.
So Jason Day has capped off a sensational weekend of Australian international sporting success.
The women’s cricket team won their first Test against England on English soil since 2001, and now have a stranglehold on the Ashes.
And the Diamonds won their third straight world netball title by beating the Silver Ferns 58-55 in a nail-biting final.
The only blank spot were the Wallabies being thumped by the All Blacks 41-13.
But today’s is Jason’s day, and deservedly so. May there be many more of them.
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