But it has also meant he has had to get into Drummond’s Stanmore outlet to put some money in his back pocket.

“He’s been so great for us and we’ll support him in anything he wants to do,” Crowe’s boss Craig Delaney said. “This won’t be the last time he’s at Augusta.”

Crowe even took his Masters invite from Augusta National into the store and has kept working shifts until his departure for the United States. He’ll join Smith,Scott,Jason Day and likely qualifier Min Woo Lee as the Australians in the Masters field.

On his Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship win,Crowe said:“I hadn’t thought about it all week and even for most of that final round,but I did have a lot of time to stew over that four-footer I had to win[on the last hole]. Everyone else had to putt out.

“I shouldn’t have said it,but I told myself,‘this is a putt to play in The Masters’. I stood over it and thought,‘you moron’. When I holed it,it was a huge sigh of relief.”

The Masters will be the highlight of an incredible rise in the game for Golf NSW product Crowe,who was so good as a kid his dad Tony snuck him into an under-age teams competition even though he was too young.

“The rule was you had to be 10 years or over,” Crowe said. “I was eight. My dad was the manager and we kept it a secret. I definitely loved it. I had talent,but was never an outstanding junior.

“I want to put myself on that leaderboard[at Augusta] and I feel like I have got the creativity around there. My goal is to be in a spot to make the cut and hopefully be leading amateur.”

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