“For a short moment, it did feel as though my world was crumbling down around me,” Pepperell wrote in the immediate aftermath of losing his card. “I had to spend 15 minutes in solitude reading every news app I had on my phone at the time, just to escape my own thoughts and immediate emotions following my double-bogey finish. I only cried once I got back to my hotel room. This shows how gut-wrenchingly painful it was for me a year ago, because I still felt these emotions in spite of being very aware of how it was only a moment in time. And one that I knew wouldn’t define me as a golfer, only refine me.”