They say if you can't be good, be lucky - it's a good job Rory McIlroy is both.
Even the best need a bit of luck sometimes and on the 18th hole on day one of the DP World Tour Championship World Number Two McIlroy got out of jail twice.
He first sent his tee-shot right towards the stream only to see his ball bounce off the rocks and land safely among the chippings, but better was to come.
His second shot landed in the water, bounced up onto the nearby bridge, gripped, spun and nestled safely on dry land.
"Have you ever seen two breaks like this in succession?" said his amazed Ryder Cup Vice Captain Nicolas Colsaerts on television commentary.
McIlroy went on to find the green in three and get down in two for a "regulation" par five but those who saw it will always remember it was anything but.
"I was hoping that my tee shot was going to miss the hazard right but I didn't exactly think that it would do what it did," he said. "And the second shot from the mulch, it just sort of started left on me and yeah, got another stroke of luck by coming back over the bridge.
"I was a bit in two minds about whether to go left and cut it or go right. I felt with the longer club by hitting it, there was a chance of clipping the bridge on the way through.
"So I took a wedge and hit it in. Just tried to hit it as hard as I could and ended up making a good five."
