Charley Hull began the week of the final golf major of the year by convincing her caddie Adam Woodward he had won a lottery prize worth £100,000. Unfortunately for Woodward, Hull had bought the ticket in a Blackpool joke shop. The only way he can really hit the jackpot is if his boss breaks her major duck at this week's AIG Women's Open.
Hull then broke the bad news.
'I think he nearly quit the job then,' the 30-year-old said. 'I felt really bad.'
The week clearly began on a lighter note for the Kettering pro, but she is deadly serious about the challenge ahead.
Were Hull to go one better than her five major runners-up finishes, she would continue a remarkable storyline of British success in this event when staged here at Royal Lytham and St Annes.
Scotland's Catriona Matthew was champion in 2009 and nine years later England's Georgia Hall triumphed over the famed Lancashire links.
Hull and world number five Lottie Woad are among the favourites for this, the last of the year's five majors. Unlike Blackpool's lottery tickets, the hope of maintaining Lytham's habit of identifying UK champions is real.