Golfers lose, a lot. The reality is one wins each week. The rest? They bag a cheque - some big and some small - and take their bags to wherever the circus is heading next. By the time they get there, the previous cheque has usually run out. A fair few play most of their careers with not just a monkey on their back, but a gorilla. Sometimes it stays there until they put the clubs away. They just don't win at the professional level.

Josh Younger is 35 and has played for more than a decade in the professional ranks. Wins? Zero. The guy can play, really well. But he has never been able to win, finishing second in an Australian Masters and New Zealand PGA.

Josh Younger with the Kel Nagle Trophy after winning the NSW Open yesterday.

What keeps one going for so long without ever being able to win? Sunday afternoon. This Sunday afternoon, Younger finally won taking home the Kel Nagle Cup after the NSW Open at Twin Creeks Golf and Country Club.

It didn't take 72 holes, but a couple of extra ones too. Part of the penultimate group, he led by two in the last hole of regulation play and hooked a drive left, bounced his ball off a tree - one he joked was "well placed" - and found it at the bottom of the lake. Double bogey.