Under the most intense pressure, Jordan Gumberg holed out for eagle with his final shot of the season in Korea to keep his DP World Tour card.
Needing something big to move the right side of the top 115 on the Race to Dubai Ranking, Gumberg holed out for eagle from 58 yards on the 18th hole of Woo Jeong Hills Country Club.
"I'm at a loss for words," Gumberg said after his final round at the Genesis Championship.
"I saw the ball land on the green and trickle over the hill, you couldn't see anything, and the crowd went nuts, we went nuts. It was the best shot I've hit in my career so far.
"I didn't think we needed to hole it, but we were looking to get one more and obviously it's an added plus when it went in so I'm ecstatic."
The American – a winner on the DP World Tour last year in South Africa – came into the week 127th on the Ranking needing something close to his season’s best.
The 30-year-old has spent this season playing in more events than any other player on the DP World Tour this year, teeing up in all but one event for which he was exempt for this season - including every event on the back nine.
But without a top ten on the 2025 Race to Dubai, Gumberg knew he needed to finish 14th or better in Korea - his 34th event of the season - to claim the required points.
He put himself in a strong position over the first couple of days, heading into the weekend tied 22nd with rounds of 70-69. Yet for much of the final day he was still predicted to finish around 120th on the Ranking, a sole birdie on the par-five fourth combining with 16 pars as he headed to the 18th tee.
With 253 yards left into the par-five last, Gumberg's second shot went left of the green, setting him up ultimately for what commentator Alison Whitaker called "the best shot we've seen all season"
Speaking of the nerves he felt heading into the final day, Gumberg said the conditions made it difficult but they stuck to their game plan and tried not to force a result.
"It was brutal. With that rain coming in and the greens a little slower, the greens are already really tricky.
"It was really frustrating, but I mean, we knew solid golf would get it done today and we just tried to give ourselves 18 looks at birdie, unfortunately none of them went in for a lot of holes.
"We just stuck within ourselves. My caddie did a great job of keeping me in it, he said 'just keep plugging away, plugging away, you've got this'... I'm getting a little choked up right now. He was right I guess.
When he holed his shot, Gumberg immediately jumped on top of his caddie and celebrated with playing partners Keita Nakajima and Ewen Ferguson, but it was after by the green he looked emotional as he crouched down by the green.
Revealing what was running through his head, he said all he was thinking: "Oh my god, what just happened.
"So much adrenaline and emotion and everything, it's similar emotions to Q-School. Coming down the last or last couple of holes, there is so much pressure and you know one bad swing can take you out of it.
"So to have that pressure from this morning when I woke up to now, it was a huge release.
"And a 'oh my god, we just did this, we think we just did this, hopefully we did this' and I looked at my fiancee at the top and said 'are we good?' and she goes 'we're good'. It was just a lot of emotion dumping out of me.
"We've made so many friends in this sport, people across the globe that we are great, great friends with now. It's sad when you think you're not going to be here next year to not see those faces again.
"It's a brotherhood out here. It's not even that, it's the wives and everyone that gets along. It's great now to know that I will see them again."
