When Maverick McNealy stuck a 6-iron from 183 yards on the par-4 18th hole at Sea Island’s Seaside Course to set up a 5-foot, 5-inch putt for his first victory at the 2024 RSM Classic, he admitted he was on autopilot.

McNealy, seven years after famously choosing professional golf over the business world, won the RSM Classic on Sunday for his maiden PGA Tour title.

Maverick McNealy, age 29, 142 starts into a very good PGA Tour career, has dropped from the ranks of the winless. Or, to frame it positively, the monkey is finally off his back: With a five-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole—the kind he has dreamt about and executed on a thousand practice greens,