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STEVEN Bowditch's biggest win is not $1.2 million or a dream trip to Augusta but meeting the American sweetheart who rescued him from his "dark times."
The soaring triumph of Monday's breakthrough victory at the Texas Open is the hope it gives every sufferer of depression. The demons can be controlled.
The Sunshine Coast golfer made a DVD, detailing his battle, for beyondblue to help the organisation's national fight against depression.
He could never take the step to watch it himself but grateful messages have reached him from people who did to save their own lives.
Steven Bowditch is overcome as his Texas Open victory sinks in after his long battle with depression. Source: AFP
The "dark times" that Bowditch calls his past, not his future, were so confusing and constricting in 2006 that he tried to drown himself in a pool in Dallas.
He was found face down in the pool and rushed to hospital.
The bushy-browed Queenslander has always had the prodigious game to conquer hurdles on course, yet his turmoil was inside.
Sleep-deprivation, binge drinking, crashes in self-esteem … Bowditch dealt with them all in a fraught first taste of the golfing big time in the US in 2006, when he withdrew from three events and was disqualified four times.
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Staring at those demons was tougher than any of the tricky lies he confronted on Monday when he dealt with rocks, cactus, rough and nerve-fraying putts. He closed with a four-over 76 but got the job done on a windy day.
It was in Dallas that he met former cheerleader Amanda Yarussi, a producer for a Fox Sports regional network in Texas.
She was putting out the garbage. He was fiddling around in his garage.
"Amanda is the love of my life," Bowditch, 30, said from San Antonio after his dramatic one-stroke win.
Bowditch acknowledges the crowd after holing his putt on the final hole in San Antonio. Source: AFP
"She is my wife and I love her dearly. I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you without her.
"She's great. She's my biggest supporter and she's always there through the ups and downs."
Bowditch admitted frankly that it is an ongoing process to stay ahead of depression, which once brought him to unexplained tears of dread over golf.
"I don't think I'll ever overcome it. You just deal with it on a day-to-day basis and learn, learn about yourself and move forward," Bowditch said.
Father Barry, a former cement renderer at Peregian Beach, proudly saluted his son having a fighting attitude made of the same stuff.
Bowditch almost sheepishly waves to the crowd after receiving a generous round of applause. Source: AFP
"I'd be very proud regardless, win or come second. I know the nerves he beat in that last round," Mr Bowditch said.
That he is now headed to the Masters next month to play in the field beside Australia's defending champion Adam Scott is headspinning. The unknown ranked No.339 in the world before Monday's feat is now going to be driving through the gates at Augusta.
"I don't even know how to get there," he joked.
"The only time I played it has been on PlayStation.
"So I think I know a few of the breaks."
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