Each win saw Crowe rally from tricky positions to “get it done”, and at the weekend, the 21-year-old did it again by coming from three shots down on the back nine to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur tournament in Thailand. It earned Crowe invitations to next year’s US Masters and the Open.

Crowe was back at St Michael’s on Wednesday, slowly returning to earth.

“I haven’t had a whole lot of time yet to accept ... or to visualise the fact that I am playing in the Masters and the Open. I am sure when I have a few days off, and have a chance to ‘chillax’ and catch up on some sleep, I will be flicking through some old replays,” Crowe said.

Crowe had planned to turn professional in coming weeks but given he needs to still be amateur to play the Masters and the Open, that will now be put on pause. Crowe works part-time selling clubs and shoes at a Drummond Golf shop - “it doesn’t really feel like work” - and he’ll happily keep taking shifts to make ends meet.

With a booming profile, however, there’s every chance the Bexley boy will be spotted teeing up with the likes of Cameron Smith and Adam Scott at the Australian Open later next month in Melbourne.

Prior to the Asia-Pacific amateur, Crowe spent time talking with Scott after the youngster has missed the cut at the Japan Open; continuing a frustrating run of outs on a three-month stint playing overseas. Scott passed on advice, urging him to re-set and go win in Thailand.

Sporting a Smith-esque mullet, Crowe says he’d be stoked to play in the same postcode of the Open winner this summer, too.

“If they paired me with Cam I would be very excited. I am a little bit of a fanboy,” Crowe said.

Knowing his knockabout sensibilities, Smith would know about Crowe already based on a video of the youngster hitting a ball onto the 18th green at St Andrews, from a pavement outside a pub, that went viral earlier this year.

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“It was just spontaneous,” Crowe explained.

“We are just having a couple of drinks in the pub after we played the St Andrews Links Trophy and a few of the boys met Erik, from the Random Golf Club [YouTube] guys. Erik talked about what Ernie Els did, allegedly, and he was searching to recreate it.

“One of my best mates, Jack, he was ready to do it ... but he was at the stage where he definitely wasn’t as coherent as I was so I thought, ‘You know what, if it’s going to happen, I’ll do it’. I felt like he might have put it through a window.”

It wasn’t quite the first tee at St Andrews but with a building gallery, Crowe hit the ball crisply from concrete and made the shot.

“I think it just kind of showed our Aussie culture a bit,” he said. “We like a laugh. We’re up for a challenge. I just thought, ‘I can make that’.”

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