Danny Willett will climb back into the top 40 in the Official World Golf Ranking after his win at the BMW PGA Championship, just 16 months after he left Wentworth Golf Club ranked outside the top 400.
Following his maiden Major Championship victory at the Masters Tournament in 2016, Willett moved into the world's top ten and with a Ryder Cup debut secured for later in the season, he had the golfing world at his feet.
The Englishman would go pointless in Minnesota as Europe surrendered the trophy for the first time in eight years and in the months that followed, Willett went on to suffer a loss of form and fitness that reached its nadir when he missed the cut at Wentworth in May 2018.
That result saw him fall to 462nd in the Official World Golf Ranking but the climb back would begin the following week as he achieved a Rolex Series top ten at the Italian Open.
A victory came four months later at the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai and, after becoming just the fourth player to claim multiple Rolex Series wins in Surrey, Willett is well and truly back at the top of the game.
He is one of just eight players to win the BMW PGA Championship and the Masters and the fourth Englishman to win seven European Tour events including a Major, and he puts much of that down to a new attitude.
"The last kind of eight months now, ten months with a couple of wins in the Rolex Series events really, really puts things right in my own mind, which is nice," he said.
"Any tournament win is amazing. That's now my seventh win on Tour and every single time I've won, they have been pretty stellar events against pretty stellar fields.
"It's more being able to compete under the pressure with everything that's happened, that self-belief in what you're doing, the inner stuff that you say to yourself, the things that people don't see on the outside, the hours you put in, what you've got to do and what you've got to sacrifice.
"The one thing for me is that I would have been completely happy with myself today if I had finished first or tenth and I think that's the big difference. I think before, winning was one of the main things when you get in that position and that makes winning harder.
"For me, it was the ability to get in position, in contention, I think is a lot harder than winning.
"It's nice to be up there most of the week. So you get them butterflies, you get that feeling every day, every morning, getting ready, getting warmed up. So it's been an amazing week.
"When the golf was real bad and I didn't really fancy playing it, to be able to then come down the stretch today and enjoy it is something that's a real beautiful thing to be able to do because, at the end of the day, when I was ten that's what I took golf up for because I enjoyed it and I wanted to get better.
"That's what you want to play the game for. You want to be able to enjoy it and have a laugh with the crowds and embrace what you're doing and enjoy all the factors around it.
"There was a lot of time I had there where I didn't enjoy any second of it whatsoever. I think that helps put you in a place where a bad shot on a Sunday in contention can ruin someone's year but I'm incredibly happy within myself.
"If that would have happened today, it would have been one of them things, I'd have driven home and had a bottle of wine probably and gotten over it and gone and pegged it up next week and that's it.
"We're all where we're supposed to be at that moment in time and fortunately for me, this is where it's ended up."
