Royal Dornoch's professional golfer Jimmy Gunn, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and playing on the All-American Pro-Golf Tour added another $2835 to his bank account last weekend but it could so easily have been a first prize cheque of $10,330.
Chasing his first 54 hole tournament win since joining this tour from where he could, depending on end of season winnings, be rewarded with a playing card for the next professional level in America - the Nationwide Tour from where Inverness professional Russell Knox graduated to this season's full USPGA tour - Gunn led from the front in the competition, played at Sunridge Canyon, Fountain Hills, Arizona.
Gunn made his now customary good start with a first round six under par 65 to lead overnight by one shot.
In the 62-player field he then had a 36 hole share of the lead beside American Brady Schnell with a follow up card of 70.
His first nine holes of his third and final round did not have the required consistency to stay in the front.
Two over par after four holes of play, his birdies at the 6th and 7th were followed by another dropped shot. But from his birdie on the 9th hole he found a run of five par figures only to let his winning chance slip again over the closing stretch - a bogie, birdie, bogie finish for a one over par 72 to end with a total of 207 and into a tie of second place, two shots behind the winner, Brady Schnell.
