As Steve Beddow's Sky Sports Golf commentary career comes to an end, the broadcaster looks back at nearly 25 years covering the sport.
I was genuinely overwhelmed for the texts and messages sent to me from around the world over the past few and I'd like to thank everybody for them.
The Portugal Masters was an excellent tournament to send off on and it had the perfect winner in Padraig Harrington. The finish to the week was brilliant and it was nice to see one of the game's great characters pick up a deserved victory.
I'd previously worked covering golf for Eurosport and the BBC, but my life at Sky Sports started in 1995, when I was booked for highlights on the now-defunct Mastercard Tour at a course in Scotland.
I used my air miles from my work at Eurosport to make the trip, unsure of whether the recording we made would be the start of something more regular. It worked pretty well though, and when Sky Sports took more of the European Tour coverage, I went with it.
Since then, if you combine the events I've broadcasted on the world feed, I've racked up over 1,000 tournaments of live coverage. The sport has changed so much over the past 20 years and Sky Sports has a lot to do with that.
Sky have been brilliant to me and I have never had a cross word to say about them. One standout moment of that was when I had a mild stroke in the early 2000s, when they were very good in giving me the time to get better.
My fondest memory is when Jose Maria Olazabal once made a winning comeback from a foot injury. Our cameras weren't on him as he came up the last hole, but I had said on commentary how much of a proud man he is and how there must be a tear somewhere.
Sure enough, when the director cut to the Spaniard, he was brushing a tear or two away. It was a special moment to cover.
The golfers have had to get physically fitter and stronger during my commentary career and the majority of them have done that. The already high standards on the golf course are improving all the time.
You find the golfers are pretty keen to try broadcasting and can share their experiences of playing and practicing. I've worked with a huge number of great people during my career, including the likes of my good friends Richard Boxall and Tony Johnstone.
I've felt for the past couple of years that the time would come to an end for me behind the microphone. There are new people starting all of the time in the role and more golfers are stepping up and giving it a go.
There are also all of the young people working at Sky Sports who work so hard and just have so much energy in everything they do. I've got every admiration for all of them and will miss working with them.
At the moment, I'm not sure what the future holds for me. I'd like to return to have another crack at covering football, which is what I used to do before starting on golf.
I used to do local radio commentary for Reading and I made reference to the club during my opening line of commentary on Sunday. I figured they couldn't sack me for that now!
I look forward to a relaxing couple of months, where I'll spending more time with my two-month old grandson and will play golf as and when I feel like it. If I feel like after Christmas I want to get back doing something then I will, but don't ask me what yet!