Criticised for not going through 36-hole qualifying for the US Open the day after winning the Memorial, he then raised eyebrows by choosing to play in Milwaukee rather than go to the Open at Royal Birkdale.
Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.
The prop was then sin-binned for illegal use of the boot and, almost immediately, centre Gomer-Davies went through a hole on the Treviso 10-metre line on the left.
