It took 75 holes to separate them, but Matt Fitzpatrick took the RBC Heritage Open after a dramatic play-off with Jordan Spieth at Harbour Town.
Fitzpatrick, claiming first regular PGA Tour title, fired a nine-iron to a foot on the third extra hole after both players had parred the first two efforts in the sudden-death play-off.
American Spieth and England's Fitzpatrick first parred 18 - Spieth's birdie putt lipping out - and then repeated the trick on the par-three 17th.
Fitzpatrick, playing first into the 18th again for their third play-off hole, stitched it close. Spieth's answer was not as spectacular and, when he failed to hole a lengthy birdie putt, Fitzpatrick duly brushed his in for victory.
The pair had both finished at 17-under-par after 72 holes, one clear of Spieth's countryman Patrick Cantlay with another American Xander Schauffele alone in fourth on 15-under-par.
Shane Lowry finished in a tie for 67th one one-over-par following a closing round of 72.
"It was another nine iron," a smiling Fitzpatrick told CBS, a reference to the club he used to make par from a fairway bunker on the 72nd hole of his US Open triumph at Brookline last year.
"It's hard to describe. I said to Billy (Foster, his caddie) it doesn't get better than this, walking down here, it's a course I dreamed of playing when I was young.
"I managed to play it a couple of times with my dad and this one means more than anything."
Spieth, who beat Cantlay on the first hole of a play-off 12 months ago, began the day two shots behind Fitzpatrick but birdied four of the first six holes and took the outright lead when Fitzpatrick bogeyed the seventh.
Cantlay then birdied the ninth and 10th, where Spieth got up and down from 168 yards for par after pulling his tee shot into the water, to move into a tie for the lead, but bogeyed the 13th as Spieth made birdie to briefly enjoy a two-shot lead.
Spieth and Cantlay both bogeyed the 14th after missing the green left, Cantlay's chip running across the green and almost into the water before getting stuck against a wooden pylon on the edge of the hazard.
Fitzpatrick finally ended a run of seven straight pars with birdies on the 15th and 16th to join Spieth in the lead and missed from seven feet for another on the 17th, with neither player able to birdie the last to win in regulation.
"Of every single one on the calendar, this is the one that I'd want to win most," added Fitzpatrick, who used to attend the tournament as a spectator while on holiday with his family.
"So far I've been very lucky in my career, I've won a major and now this and multiple times in Europe as well and this one is just very, very special."
Additional reporting: PA
