Matt McCarty started the year on the Korn Ferry Tour and now is headed to the Masters, winning his first PGA Tour title Sunday at the Black Desert Championship with a 4-under 67 and one swing that all but sealed it.

McCarty won three times in a span of six events on the Korn Ferry Tour to earn a promotion to the PGA Tour and in just his second start in the big leagues, he returned to the winner’s circle with a 72-hole total of 23-under 261 and a three-shot victory over Stephan Jaeger.

You have to learn how to win on the PGA Tour. At least that was the conventional wisdom for years. Matt McCarty, instead, used his experience in winning three times in a little more than a month on the Korn Ferry Tour and carried that winning feeling to the big tour,