He didn't like his two given names and nobody could pronounce his last name. Louis Oosthuizen needed to do something spectacular to put himself on the map.
So he won the British Open.
That was in 2010, at the legendary Old Course here, where they do this every five years and will do it again starting Thursday.
In '10, when he opened with rounds of 65 and 67, there was a scramble to find out just who he was. He had been, after all, a 250-1 longshot to win in the British books. When he did not implode on the weekend, as expected, but finished with 69 and 71 and won by seven strokes, the pursuit of "who is this guy?