Saudi Ladies International:Georgia Hall's win highlights golf's colossal gender pay gap
And in these times of hyper prize money inflation, it was also a win to highlight a continuing gender discrepancy that blights professional golf.
The 25-year-old from Bournemouth dominated the Saudi Ladies International in Jeddah from start to finish, preserving a five-stroke advantage on the final day to win convincingly on Sunday.
Hall eclipsed Solheim Cup team-mates Emily Kristine Pedersen and Carlotta Ciganda to claim a winner's cheque of $135,548 (£103,000) from a $1m prize pot.
It seems a decent return for a week's work until you consider the figures banded around last week to launch the men's LIV Golf International Series, fronted by former world number one Greg Norman.
Currently, there are scores of leading male professionals, most of them already multi-millionaires, weighing up invitations to take part in Norman's eight-tournament series worth $25.5m per event.
The women's tournament won by Hall was presented by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), the same source of revenue that backs the LIV Golf Series.
And to be fair, this was the first of six $1m Aramco Series competitions that significantly bolster an otherwise relatively impoverished Ladies European Tour schedule.
So it is little wonder that Norman used this investment in the female game as a prime argument against claims of Saudi Arabian "sports washing" of the country's record on human rights.
As he launched his so-called Saudi Super League last week, Norman faced repeated questions regarding the recent mass execution of 81 men as Well, as women's rights in the Kingdom.
The 67-year-old Australian insisted that his project was nothing to do with politics but also stated: "Saudi Arabia has invested a lot of money into women's golf.
"They're the largest investor in women's golf today. So when you look at all the facts sitting out there, yes, our investor is Saudi money.
"I'm proud of that because, as I said, golf is good for the world, and we're just going to grow the game of golf worldwide."
But the fact is that Saudi Arabia's investment in the female game is a mere $6m prize money, spread over half a dozen tournaments. The overall seed investment for Norman's men's series is $400m.
That's a gender pay gap in anyone's money.
And while singling out the Saudi project, it is only fair to say this applies across the board in professional golf and much of the international sporting world.
Yes, the R&A and United States Golf Association have sought to Narrow the discrepancy - the prize fund for this year's AIG Women's Open at Muirfield rises to $6.8m, and the prize fund for the Women's US Open rises to $12m over the next four years.
But both events still lag behind their male equivalents. They remain short of the examples of the four tennis Grand Slams - Wimbledon, the Australian, French, and the US Opens - all pay equal prize money.
The female footballers of the United States won a court case last month entitling them to the same pay as their male counterparts in a deal that nets them $24m plus bonuses.
This is a growing direction of travel, and despite efforts by some of the governing bodies, golf remains among the backmarkers.
Norman constantly talks about his desire to "grow the game of golf", as do so many other stakeholders running the sport.
So, how about genuinely turning attention to a still primarily neglected 50% of the world's population? How about making it a much more attractive proposition to them?
Those running golf in all its guises talk about modernising, making sure the sport is relevant to modern life and still thriving 50 years from now. There is broad agreement that ridding the game of its sexist, elitist reputation is a key priority.
Yet at a time when more and more cash is being thrown at professionals, it continues to land in grotesquely disproportionate piles and ending up in already bulging male-sized back pockets.
This week, the 64-man field at the WGC Matchplay in Austin, Texas will split $12m. When former Olympic champion Inbee Park defends the JTBC Classic in California, on the LPGA Tour, the purse is $1.5m.
Next week's Chevron Championship, the first major of the year, Is worth $5m.
For the coming seven weeks, the world's best female players compete for purses totalling less than was on offer for the men in one week on the PGA Tour at this month's $20m Players Championship.
Over the next fortnight in South Africa, the Ladies European Tour purses $550,000. Most competitors will show up for successive events knowing they will make a substantial loss.
'It's market forces,' goes the argument. If you want to "grow the game", perhaps you need to be radical and shift the market in the way the now booming tennis Grand Slams did earlier this century?
Maybe golf could be more widely seen as the enlightening force it perhaps has the potential to be?
Possibly that would attract more sponsors and media rights from companies run by executives who regard it just that their daughters have the same earning potential as their sons?
'The women aren't as good as the men,' is another excuse thrown in. Well, in Saudi Arabia last Sunday, American Kelly Whaley rolled in a record eight consecutive birdies in a closing 63.
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