The honeymoon is over and it is back to business for Colin Montgomerie in what he calls "a new start" in Seville on Thursday.
Montgomerie, married for a second time the week after missing out on the Masters, resumes his bid to keep his Ryder Cup place at the Spanish Open.
The competition includes cup team-mate Darren Clarke, who got back to winning ways in China on Sunday, and also former Open champion John Daly, no longer the holder of a US Tour card and himself returning to action after recent stomach surgery.
Montgomerie is now outside the top 30 in the Ryder Cup standings after a season that so far has fallen way short of expectations raised by his World Cup triumph alongside Marc Warren in November.
He did finish sixth in Qatar and then beat Americans Jim Furyk and Charles Howell in the World Match Play in Arizona, but since that ninth place the Scot has missed cuts in India and America and was a lowly 65th out of 77 at the CA World Championship in Miami.
The messageboard on his own website sees fans from all over the world send not only congratulations on his wedding but also words of encouragement.
"I sincerely hope that this might mark the start of a 'New Monty' and let us all see some spark back in your game and hopefully a more relaxed outlook on the game," says one from Ontario.
"You are still a young man really," comments another from New Zealand to Montgomerie, who turns 45 in June.
There is even this from an admirer in New Jersey: "I, for one American, am disappointed with your not being in this year's Masters.
"You have every right to be disappointed and frankly I hope you take the three other majors in response."
That would be the story to end all golfing stories, of course, but at least Montgomerie, down to 74th in the world rankings now, is in the next two thanks to his 12th place on last year's Order of Merit.
As a past winner Daly will also be at Royal Birkdale for the Open in July, but most of the time these days he relies on sponsor's invitations.
To say he has not made good use of them this season is a massive understatement. Not for the first time in his career, he has had more written about his drinking than his birdies and bogeys.
In nine starts on the US Tour Daly, 42 this Monday, has only twice completed four rounds and has earned less than Ј15,000. His world ranking stands at 595th.
Coach Butch Harmon stopped working with him, saying "the most important thing in his life is getting drunk", but Daly will be hoping the repair of a torn stomach muscle allows him to show some better form.
He partners Clarke and Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez in the opening two rounds.
Clarke's victory last weekend, achieved with a closing 40-foot birdie putt, was his first on the European Tour for five years - and, of course, his first since his wife Heather died of breast cancer in August 2006.
"I just want to keep playing the way I have been," he said. "I think there is a lot of good golf in me yet and, as frustrating a time as it has been, it is nice to see the work paying off.
"Hopefully I will put myself in a position to challenge for tournaments a lot more frequently. Whether I win them or not is another matter.
"If anything, my win has given me renewed vigour to carry on and keep working because I want more of this."
CLARKE AND DALY SET FOR SEVILLE
DALY VOWS TO RECAPTURE PAST GLORIES
CLARKE SPURRED ON BY BAD PRESS
WEEKLEY AT CAREER HIGH
