Tiger Woods produced some of the old magic to match Jack Nicklaus' career tally of 73 PGA Tour wins with his fifth victory at the Memorial Tournament.
The final-day surge up the field, the red shirt, the steely-eyed determination to finish the job - and a defining shot, and celebration, as he holed out from off the 16th green for birdie.
Flopping the ball out of a difficult lie onto the near edge of the putting surface, Woods watched the ball roll dead weight into the right edge of the hole.
His fist-pumping roar of delight rolled back the years, and was soon followed by a calm raise of the club after a birdie putt on 18 which he knew had taken him out of reach of the chasing Rory Sabbatini, who finished two shots back.
Starting the day four off the lead, the former world number one birdied the second hole after a fine approach to eight feet but it was the fifth where his round sparked into life.
With two par-fives in the space of three holes, Woods took full advantage by birdying both as well as the intervening sixth.
He gave one shot back at the eighth when a 40-foot putt broke too far, and after losing another at 10 it looked as though his charge would not materialise.
But he had other ideas, with three birdies in the last four holes including the shot which Nicklaus himself, watching at greenside, said was the best he had seen at the Muirfield Village course.
And Woods told Sky Sports 1: "I knew if I hit it short it would have been down and left, if I hit it long it was in the water.
"The lie wasn't all that great, I had to take a cut at it and it came out just perfect.''
Only Sam Snead, on 82, now remains ahead of him in the all-time table for tour wins.
And Woods - 10 years younger than Nicklaus when he recorded his last win - said: "It's been pretty nice and to do it at age 36, it's not too shabby.
"I've been very proud what I've done so far in my career and I feel I've still got a lot of good years ahead of me.''
On the round as a whole, he said: "Boy, I hit it good today.
"I never really missed a shot, I had the pace of the greens really nice and made a few putts.''
Collated final-round scores (USA unless stated, par 72):
279 Tiger Woods 70 69 73 67
281 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 69 69 71 72, Andres Romero (Arg) 69 73 72 67
283 Spencer Levin 67 72 69 75, Daniel Summerhays 69 71 74 69
284 Matthew Every 69 75 71 69, Jonathan Byrd 71 70 72 71
285 Justin Rose (Eng) 73 72 71 69
286 Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn) 72 70 71 73, Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 69 72 73 72, Greg Owen (Eng) 72 71 76 67
287 Luke Donald (Eng) 71 73 75 68
288 J.B. Holmes 72 75 74 67, Jim Furyk 72 68 75 73, Bo Van Pelt 73 69 75 71
289 Vijay Singh (Fij) 72 73 69 75, Kevin Stadler 72 73 71 73, Davis Love III 74 72 71 72
290 Dustin Johnson 71 71 73 75, Hunter Mahan 72 73 77 68, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 73 72 73 72, K J Choi (Kor) 74 71 77 68, John Huh (Kor) 71 74 76 69, Blake Adams 69 77 71 73
291 Brian Davis (Eng) 73 72 74 72, Chris Kirk 75 70 75 71, Pat Perez 74 73 72 72, Scott Stallings 66 73 75 77, David Hearn (Can) 70 75 70 76, Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel) 72 74 73 72, Branden Grace (Rsa) 74 72 75 70, Stewart Cink 71 73 73 74, Ricky Barnes 72 72 76 71, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 71 70 75 75, Kyle Reifers 71 70 73 77, David Mathis 71 71 74 75, Cameron Tringale 72 74 73 72
292 Brendon De Jonge 73 71 74 74, Erik Compton 67 75 75 75, Jeff Overton 72 72 78 70, Greg Chalmers (Aus) 71 71 77 73, Johnson Wagner 72 72 73 75, Troy Matteson 72 69 76 75, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 74 73 74 71, Ryan Moore 70 73 71 78
293 Rodney Pampling (Aus) 72 74 73 74, Adam Scott (Aus) 70 72 77 74, Lucas Glover 74 68 75 76, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 74 68 71 80
294 Steve Stricker 73 70 75 76, Fred Couples 74 73 76 71
295 Charlie Wi (Kor) 71 75 75 74, Bud Cauley 70 76 77 72, Seung-yul Noh (Kor) 72 73 75 75, Rickie Fowler 71 71 69 84
296 Robert Allenby (Aus) 73 74 77 72, Jhonattan Vegas (Ven) 74 73 75 74
297 Chris Di Marco 73 72 73 79, Ernie Els (Rsa) 70 75 74 78, Marc Leishman (Aus) 72 75 75 75, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 71 74 79 73
298 Brendan Steele 72 75 74 77, Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 75 72 71 80, Jimmy Walker 72 73 78 75, Harris English 71 75 80 72
299 Brandt Jobe 73 74 79 73, Mark Wilson 70 76 78 75
300 Scott Piercy 70 75 80 75
301 Ben Crane 72 75 74 80
303 Robert Garrigus 71 76 79 77, Camilo Villegas (Col) 73 74 82 74
