Nobody has made a successful defence of the Spanish Open since Max Faulkner way back in 1953.
But if Dubliner Peter Lawrie completes the double on Sunday it will taste particularly sweet.
The 35-year-old, who burst into third place today with six birdies in eight holes, is not best pleased about a lack of recognition this week.
Lawrie, who goes into the third round at PGA Catalunya near Girona three strokes behind France's Thomas Levet, said after his 66: ‘There's not one picture of me anywhere.
‘I thought I would at least deserve something - it's disappointing and a little bit of motivation.
‘Somebody said yesterday about me being the ex-Spanish Open champion. I said 'No, I am the current Spanish Open champion.'
‘I just have to try to play well and let the scores make the point.’
The pre-event publicity was dominated by John Daly's golfing comeback after four months out and Colin Montgomerie's late decision to play.
But Montgomerie is already out of the event after crashing to an 81 in the much windier afternoon conditions and Daly - still serving a six-month US Tour ban imposed after he was thrown in jail to sober up last October - is deep in the pack on two under.
Of the rest of the Irish players in the event, Paul McGinley is three behind Lawrie on seven under, with Gary Murphy just making the cut on level par.
Damien McGrane (+1), Jonathan Caldwell (+3) and Michael Hoey (+9) all missed the cut.
At the other end of the scale, Levet, Dane Soren Hansen and Lawrie were never likely to be dislodged from the top three spots.
With Hansen double-bogeying the last for a 70, seven worse than his course record-breaking opening round, Levet leads by two at 13 under thanks to a 67.
He was soon off for treatment, however, on a back problem he blames on doing television commentary at The Masters last month.
‘It's since working with you guys,’ the former Ryder Cup player told reporters. ‘I'm not a sitting person - I'm a standing person.
‘I spent hours in a chair and it started getting stiff. There were also two long flights and it's been bad for three weeks.’
Hansen, the only member of last year's Ryder Cup team who has not qualified for next week's Players Championship in Florida, refused to blame his late slip on his group being timed for possible slow play.
‘We were a long way behind, but you have to try to rush between shots and not let it affect it when you are over the ball,’ said the Copenhagen golfer.
While annoyed to finish as he did - he went from rough to bunker and then three-putted the 478-yard ninth - Hansen could draw huge confidence from the fact that after starting the tournament with a double bogey he played the next 34 holes in 15 under.
And of just four eagles on the 527-yard 12th so far he has had two of them.
