It was not only a bad back that Thomas Levet returned from The Masters with last month - it was also an important lesson in how to win.
Levet had been at Augusta not to play, but to commentate for French television and in his first tournament since then the 40-year-old former Ryder Cup golfer captured the Spanish Open in Girona on Sunday.
After dedicating the victory to Seve Ballesteros, whose battle with brain cancer goes on, Levet said that watching Tiger Woods try for a 15th major had struck a chord with him.
Although the world number one finished "only" sixth, Levet - who blamed his back injury on sitting down all day commentating - told PA Sport: "Tiger showed that you don't need to play extra well to win or be in contention.
"Even the guy who wins makes mistakes and for me the lesson is it makes me less nervous when I am playing badly.
"It opens your eyes on the game and makes you more conscious of what you need to do to win.
"Sometimes we try too hard, but you don't have to play perfectly and when you commentate you see that.
"Everybody is going to make mistakes and I was so calm out there."
It was Levet's fifth Tour victory - 45 fewer than Ballesteros' record, but the most by any Frenchman - and it came by two strokes from Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti and by four from Irish defending champion Peter Lawrie and Dane Thomas Bjorn.
Zanotti, who last November came through the Tour qualifying school on the same PGA Catalunya course, shot a best-of-the-day 65, but Levet settled the issue with birdies at the 15th and 17th for a 68.
"Fighting on the course is what I most remember Seve for and that's what I did. He's having a hard time at the moment and I dedicate this to him," Levet added.
After a long lean spell Bjorn was delighted to play the last eight holes in six under, but Lawrie was disappointed he could not quite pull off the first successful defence of the trophy since Max Faulkner in 1953.
"The putter let me down, that was the main issue," said the Dubliner. "I missed twice from five feet early on and was always chasing it after that."
Most dejected, though, was England's Stuart Davis.
At 35 this was the first big chance for the Derby player and by starting the last round with three successive birdies he went from two behind Levet to two in front.
But after slumping to 15th place with a 78 he stated: "I don't know what happened, it all fell apart and I couldn't stem the tide.
"I got so many bad breaks as well to compound the errors. I kept trying to do the same things, but everything I did went wrong."
American John Daly finished his first tournament since December in 31st place, but left his mark in a different way.
The former Open champion, down from 20 to 16st after having a gastric band inserted in February, had to make a hurried exit from a lunch table after failing to digest a sandwich properly.
Daly had said on his arrival that vomiting had been a problem since the surgery and added: "I didn't chew the chicken enough and had to go to the bathroom.
"It's no great drama. I'm like a baby being sick, then I went back to finish the meal."
The 43-year-old, still serving a six-month US Tour ban handed out after he was thrown in jail to sober up in October, moves on to the Italian Open with reasons to be cheerful.
"I've struck the ball pretty good and only made two long putts all week, but in the last two rounds I hit a lot I thought I had made," he said.
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