Last week I spoke of a young American golfer named Kyle Stanley who lived out a golfing nightmare when he took 8 on the 72nd hole at Torrey Pines to wind up in a play-off.

Stanley was just one par five away from his first USPGA Tour victory and all he needed was a double bogey or better to take the loot. The poor bloke managed to make a complete meal of it making 8 and losing in extra time to Brandt Snedeker.

You would think a total meltdown of that scale would take the wind out of a young bloke's sails for a while - maybe even a season.

Wrong again! Just seven days later and Kyle Stanley is again in the mix but this time another young American player, Spencer Levin was the player leaking oil and Stanley the bloke mopping it up.

At one stage Levin also looking for his first victory on the PGA Tour held a 7 shot lead early in the final round only to go loose four shots in 6 holes and wind up shooting 75.

Stanley reeled him in and stayed solid, threw the last few holes to claim victory, and quickly put his demons from the previous week well and truly to bed.

Last week's tears of disappointment were replaced with tears of joy as the 24 year old was being interviewed on the 18th green.

"I'm not sure what I'm thinking right now," Stanley said. "I just needed to focus on playing golf. I needed to put last week behind me."

"I just want to thank my mum and dad. They've done a lot for me. I'm speechless."

ON the other side of the world a player who has made us all cry at times, John Daly, showed he can still hit his ball in the general direction of his target.

The big unit shot rounds of 67, 73, 67 in the shortened Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, finishing in 4th place behind Paul Lawrie, Peter Hanson and Aussie Jason Day.