This time last year, almost to the week, Seamus Power's career took a turn for the better when he landed his first PGA Tour victory at the Barbasol Championship.
The Waterford man has kicked on impressively from that landmark success in Kentucky, and is now embedded in the top 50 players in the world.
This week's Open Championship will be just his fourth Major appearance and, such is his elevation in the game, he's been paired with four-time Major winner Brooks Koepka and world No 6 Cam Smith on Thursday morning.
"It's incredible so far," he told RTÉ Sport at St Andrews. "I've played amateur events here and it's just totally different with all the... to be honest it's a cooler looking course with all the stands and stuff up.
"The fairways, I've never seen them running so fast, so it's going to be a different test.
"My game is in good shape, I've been hitting it nicely out there... I think putting is going to be huge here, and using your head is going to be massive.
"It's going to be fun, you're going to have some shots that'll end up in places you'd hope they wouldn't but that's part of links golf."
"It's a big ask round here to avoid a three-putt because you could be putting from 60 or 70 yards, but someone who is going to lead the field and diffuse three-putts I think is going to have a huge advantage."
Power has a top-10 finish at the US PGA and tied-12th finish at the US Open under his belt this year. He'll be fancied to give this Open a real crack. But just how much has he learned from dining at the top table in those Majors?
"Hopefully a lot," he replied. "I guess there's only one way to find out but I definitely feel like I learned a lot, even from the PGA Tour to the US Open things were a little bit smoother, a bit easier.
"It's going to be fun, you're going to have some shots that'll end up in places you'd hope they wouldn't but that's part of links golf. We played a lot of it growing up. There's going to be a lot of talking and stuff out there between players and caddies. It's going to be interesting."
