The captain of Rotherham Golf Club has said he is not surprised at fellow member Danny Willett winning the Masters.
Willett has been a member at the club for more than a decade and won his first major at Augusta late on Sunday night.
Captain Steve Mulligan said the 28-year-old's talent was obvious from a young age.
He said: "When we first came across Danny, we fairly soon realised this was a man with tremendous ability.
"He could hit the ball a long way, a very aggressive golfer, played beautifully but it was more than that because he also had a tremendous work ethic."
Mulligan recalled a time when he visited the South Yorkshire club for a meeting when the rain was torrential and spotted Danny practising his game.
"I came up to the club at 10am and Danny was practising. I went to a meeting and came out some four or five hours later, it had been raining all that time and Danny was still practising," he said.
"It's a combination of being well brought up, good coaching, hard work and tremendous ability that has got him into the position where he was 12th in the world and in the ideal position to win the US Masters."
Mulligan said Willett played "brilliantly" to keep his game together as defending champion Jordan Spieth suffered a dramatic collapse, but he waited until victory was mathematically certain before cracking open the wine.
"I didn't want to tempt providence," he said.
Mulligan added a number of members at the club "invested wisely" in a Willett win who was listed with many bookies at 66/1 before the tournament started.
"Sadly, I intended to have a little bet and asked my daughter to put that on for me but she said she had no credit in her account, so I missed out," he said.
"But she managed to have a bet herself a day or so later so she has managed to make a few bob."
Willett also plays regularly at Lindrick Golf Club in South Yorkshire, which he joined in 2010.
Club captain Tony Grayson, who has known Willett since he was 15, said he had believed the golfer would win a major tournament ''for many years'' - and thinks this will not be his last.
''What you see is just the end product of lots and lots of hard work," Grayson said.
''I mean Danny works incredibly hard. Ten hours a day at times. You get out of life what you put into it and he deserves all he's got.
''And I don't think it will be his last major, by any stretch of the imagination. I think he's got that determination and he's got that will to win.''
Willett is in good company at the golf club, which also boasts Lee Westwood and Matthew Fitzpatrick as members - both of whom finished at the top end of the tournament leaderboard at Augusta.
''What a story really, because in the first seven places last night, there were three members of the same golf club," Grayson said.
Source: PA
