When Maximilian Kieffer lifted the trophy at last season's D+D REAL Czech Masters, he did much more than just claim his first DP World Tour victory.
Ever since Bernhard Langer won the Dunlop Masters in 1980, Germany has been a powerhouse of European golf, with four Major Championships and 66 further DP World Tour victories on its roll of honour.
But after Marcel Siem won title number 66 at the 2014 BMW Masters, it would be 2,849 days before Kieffer made it 67 and once more opened the floodgates for German wins.
Langer's victory in Wales nearly 43 years ago would be the first of 42 for the Hall-of-Famer - including two Masters Tournaments - while Martin Kaymer can count a US PGA Championship and a U.S. Open among his 11 titles.
Alex Cejka, Sven Strüver and Tobias Dier have all also tasted glory on multiple occasions but never before has Germany had four different DP World Tour title holders at once.
After Kieffer's victory, Yannik Paul won the Mallorca Golf Open and that momentum has been carried into 2023, with Siem completing a fifth triumph at the Hero Indian Open and Nick Bachem sealing his first at the Jonsson Workwear Open.
The quartet made history when they all teed it up at last month's DS Automobiles Italian Open and they will do so again this week on home soil at the BMW International Open.
Kieffer's victory in Prague was just reward for ten years of remarkable consistency since graduating from the European Challenge Tour in 2012.
He almost had a win in his rookie season but agonisingly lost out in a nine-hole play-off to Raphaël Jacquelin at the Open de España and there was another play-off defeat at the 2021 Austrian Golf Open.
He was four shots off the lead going into the third and final round at a weather-hit Albatross Golf Resort but he got into a share of the lead before a stunning approach to six feet at the 17th saw him establish a one-shot lead that would not be overturned.
After waiting nearly eight years for a German victory, the next one took just two months as Paul broke his duck in his rookie season.
The Challenge Tour graduate - whose identical twin brother Jeremy plays on the Korn Ferry Tour - entered the final day in Spain in a share of the lead and was in the driving seat on the back nine before a two-shot swing at the 15th handed playing partner Marcus Armitage a two-stroke lead with three holes to play.
But as Armitage stumbled, Paul held his nerve, and a clutch 15-footer from the fringe on the last handed him a one-shot victory.
As Paul was playing his way to the DP World Tour Championship, Siem was heading to the Qualifying School, where he would regain his card at the first time of asking.
He looked a different player as he made his first six cuts of the season and in his seventh appearance, it was Paul whose heart he would break in one of the stories of the year.
The duo were tied at the top with four holes to play but Siem birdied the 15th and having narrowly cleared the water at the last, holed his par putt to spark emotional celebrations as he returned to the winner's circle.
While Siem was claiming the 13th card at the Q-School, Bachem was taking the sixth as his meteoric rise through the game continued.
After claiming three wins as an amateur on the Pro Golf Tour, he narrowly missed out on a card via the Challenge Tour in his rookie season but wasted no time acclimatising when he did get on Tour.
He headed into the final round of the Jonsson Workwear Open one shot behind countryman Alexander Knappe but a bogey-free closing 64 handed him a four-shot victory in just his 12th start, making him the fastest winner in German history.
That fab four will not be the only local heroes delighting the crowd this week, with Knappe, Hurly Long, Marcel Schneider, Nicolai von Dellingshausen and Freddy Schott among those looking to impress.
One man who will not be teeing it up this week is the recently retired Sebastian Heisele but, writing the Player Blog at the end of last year, he summed up the current purple patch in German golf.
"The future looks great for German golf," he said.
"When I first came out on Tour there were five German guys and the next year there were seven. On Tour, you always see the nationalities gravitate to towards each other but we never had that group. We could never get a German foursome in a practice group.
"Now, Yannik Paul and Max Kieffer have won and Hurly Long and Marcel Schneider are doing well and they can feed off each other and that is what we missed.
"There's now an environment for Germans to thrive and there's more on the way."
Will we see another German winner this week?
