RIDGEDALE, Mo. — When Scott McCarron registered for last week’s PGA Tour Champions stop at Big Cedar Lodge, his first instinct was to renew his wedding vows.

A year ago, he and his then-girlfriend, Jenny Klein, took one look from the first tee at Top of the Rock, the nine-hole Jack Nicklaus-designed par-3 course that co-hosts the event, gazed at the Ozark Mountains on the horizon and were smitten.

There in the distance was the resort’s three-story wedding chapel with its bell-towered steeple and sweeping sunset views of Table Rock Lake.

“We said, ‘Wouldn’t it be a beautiful place to get married someday?’” recalled McCarron, 51.

That moment was the start of a whirlwind wedding — and a run of unprecedented success for a journeyman pro who had just begun to adjust his game after the unconventional putting style he long relied upon was outlawed.