The biggest spoils understandably went to the victor Sunday afternoon at the Children's Hospital Classic at Black Creek.
You drop three eagles in the cup the way Miguel Angel Carballo did, you richly deserve both the $90,000 winner's check and the PGA Tour card he almost certainly secured with this victory.
Especially when it's just your second Nationwide Tour win ever and first in four years. Heck, the last time Carballo won, his girlfriend had to caddie for him because he didn't have enough money to pay for a real bag man.
Said the winner of the joy expected to blanket his hometown of Bahia Blanca, Argentina, when news of his triumph arrived, "My family and friends will have a fantastic party."
Actually, that's what we think he said because the 32-year-old Carballo struggles with English, which forced his caddie, David Walker, to translate his remarks.
Then again, it may have been almost as big a day for Walker as Carballo, since he'll earn roughly 10 percent of his boss's payday, plus returning to the PGA Tour as a caddie after previously toting the bag of Steve Wheatcroft.
"This was our 12th event together," said Walker, an Athens, Ga., resident who wore a red and black outfit on Sunday in celebration of the Georgia Bulldogs' 20-12 victory over Tennessee on Saturday.
"We first hooked up in Wichita. It's worked out well. He's really easy to work with, and I speak Spanish."
Walker has caddied all over the professional landscape, working every tour from the LPGA to the PGA to the Nationwide and more than a few satellite operations in between.
He's also spent time as a chef, which has come in handy more than once when working for guys who haven't won in awhile.
Even Brice Garnett, who finished second and pocketed $54,000 this week, said of the expense of chasing the PGA dream, "Hopefully, it will stay in the bank for a while. It can go pretty quick out here. It isn't cheap to stay on tour."
Said Walker of his attempts to make it cheaper: "People don't believe this, but it's really like a big fraternity out here. We rented a house this week on Nickajack, and I cooked for four guys half the week."
So which of Walker's culinary creations does Carballo like best?
"Everything," said the golfer through his caddie. (At least that's what Walker said he said.)
And what does Walker like to cook best?
"Cajun food," he said. "I like to apply French techniques to it."
Of course, Walker also said the strength of Carballo's technique is, "Everything. He's a good ball striker. His putting has been very solid and he's playing with lots of confidence right now."
He's also playing with lots of smarts, given that Carballo - the second youngest of eight children - intends to stay on the Nationwide Tour for the next three or four weeks in order to, "Make as much money as I can," despite basically wrapping up his PGA Tour card.
As for Walker, the one-time University of Georgia student began to feel good about Carballo's chances when he watched his Bulldogs win in Knoxville for the first time since 2005 on Saturday night.
"I watched every minute of it," Walker said. "I've been a Georgia fan forever."
Now he'll watch every minute of Carballo's PGA career from a few feet away.
"Oh, yes, I'm definitely planning to go with him," said Walker with a grin. "Caddying on the [PGA] Tour is everybody's dream."
And to be a Georgia Bulldog in the Volunteer State over the past 48 hours was to have a pretty good chance to see your dreams come true.