What unfolded Sunday afternoon at The Australian Golf Club was as good as golf gets and it deserves to hold centre stage well into Monday and beyond. 

Sunday capped off a great week for the national championships and as final rounds go had it all in terms of golf.

There was drama. There was theatre. There was spectacular golf. And there was – perhaps most memorably – heartbreak (but of the kind that brings hope rather than despair).

The Lees (we need a collective noun for the unique sibling double act) will have their time. Of that there is as close to no doubt as exists in this cruellest of all the sporting pursuits.

But it is for others to chronicle the great feats of the day performed by those in the arena.

What my mind turned to while the myriad combatants entertained us was great golf.

Not the heroic kind we saw from Joaquin Niemann and Ashleigh Buhai and Min Woo and Minjee but what us mere mortals think about as ‘great golf’.

The nature of recreational golf is that every now and then, for reasons unknown, the proverbial blind squirrel finds its proverbial acorn and somebody – you/your mate/your sister/your fiancé/your lawn mowing guy – has a great round. For them.

It matters not whether you play off 20 or 2 as they are just numbers. YOUR best golf is as satisfying and joyous for you as Rory McIlroy’s is for him.

And ultimately, that might be the main reason we play. Because for all the heartache and embarrassment it dishes up, golf denies nobody when it comes to these moments of bliss.

Sure, the joy is sparsely doled out but it is sparsely doled out to everybody, from Minjee to me. And that’s the point.

On Thursday last week my colleague Matt Cleary wrote a terrific piece on Cam Smith trying to find ‘that one shot’ after his poor play at Royal Queensland the previous week. (You can read it HERE. ‘That one shot’ that brings you back is part of what Perth based public golf advocate and now manager at Whaleback Public Golf course Matt Day once told me defines the game.

According to Day, the process of building a golfer follows a familiar pattern he described as ‘shot euphoria’ followed by ‘hole euphoria’ followed by ‘round euphoria’.

Almost all of you reading this will instinctively understand what he is saying and if you have experienced all three, chances are you are a lifetime player.

So why does any of this matter? Aside from the pleasure of simply allowing golf thoughts to wash over one it is because we all might need a reminder soon of the reasons we really love this game.

Turmoil is once again about to be front and centre of the golf news cycle with the game’s 

governing bodies expected to announce this coming week that the ball will be rolled back. For everyone.

"What my mind turned to while the myriad combatants entertained us was great golf."

As always with this topic, passions are already running high and the temperature is likely to be turned up further.

However, as with the mixed Australian Open formats, there will be a time and place to discuss that issue in detail but now is not that time.

For the moment, do yourself a favour and savour not only the remarkable golf we saw at the weekend but the last great golf you played or witnessed in person.

Because ultimately, it’s not the Joaquin Niemanns and Rikuya Hoshinos and Ashleigh Buhais and Minjee and Min Woo Lees that make this the greatest game of all.

It’s the every day golfer having the round of their life. You/your mate/your sister/your fiancé/your lawn mowing guy … the collective ‘us’.

And that won’t change if the ball travels 5 percent more or less while we’re doing it.