Still, Kaufman seemed on his way to becoming a star. In the span of 15 months, he had won on golf’s biggest tour; was the darling underdog story at Augusta National; enjoyed the spoils of newfound fame and fortune with buddies Spieth, Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler on a spring break trip to Baker's Bay in the Bahamas, the hijinks of which were splashed across social media; inked a lucrative deal with a beer company; and infamously (and mostly unsuccessfully) took on the waters of the Pacific in a kayak with Spieth as first mate off the coast of Oahu following a round at the Sony Open.