Sir Nick Faldo is to wed girlfriend Lindsay De Marco, and then the golf hero and the former topless dancer walk down the aisle they will have 11 marriages between them.
She will be his fourth wife and he will be her husband No7.
And one of those husbands Randy Heine, who wed Lindsay twice, in 1985 and 1988, last night wished them well.
He said: “Good for them. It’ll be her seventh marriage. They are like golf’s answer to Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. That’s a lot of marriages.”
The couple shared the happy news by posting a photo on social media, Sir Nick, 63, beaming as Lindsay, 57, showed off her engagement bling. They added a string of lovey-dovey emojis.
Lindsay is already making plans for the big day, her most recent Etsy likes going to wedding dresses and tiaras.
Pinterest, where she says she is “madly in love with a Knight among men”, features scores of ideas for her wedding.
And her ex Randy, 68, was happy to offer suggestions, too. He said: “Lindsay has enough husbands for us all to be ushers at the wedding. At the very least we should all be invited to the bachelor party. I could sort the strippers. It’s not like I don’t know a few.”
Randy last year claimed Lindsay performed at his adult club, the Astra bar, in Florida, as “Toni” in the 1980s. His claims were backed up by Harold Pike, 74, who also said Lindsay was a topless dancer.
Retired Randy hopes to meet his ex-wife’s new love Sir Nick, a six-times major winner now working as a CBS Sports golf pundit and estimated to be worth around £38million.
Randy said: “I don’t know Sir Nick, but I’d like to. I’d like to bring him up to date about how long his marriage might last and how much he’ll have to pay out if it doesn’t work out.
“I wish him all the best because, if it was anything like our marriage, he might need it. Lindsay is like a female Donald Trump. Everything revolves around her.
“When she left, she told me, ‘I only stayed with you because it was convenient’. I’d love to have a sit down with Nick, even though he won’t listen to me.
“I’d tell him, ‘Be ready to cut a cheque for five to 10 million bucks for when she walks out the door.’ If you are, fine.”
In 1988, when Randy married Lindsay the second time, he says they signed a prenup to protect his business interests. He said: “I had a prenup in the Eighties with her. I would pay her $10,000 a year for each year we were married. She’s probably like up to a $250,000 now.
“I would advise Sir Nick to get a prenup. He can have my old one. The second time we were married, we married for one and a half years.
“It was like $15,000 I had to pay her, and I told my lawyer she was so good in bed, give her $20,000.
“So I gave her $20,000.”
Despite both the marriages ending in divorce, wealthy Randy admitted having a soft spot for “captivating” Lindsay and said he understood why Sir Nick had fallen for her.
He said: “There is something about her. I still kinda like her, but I know that is nutty thinking.
“If you speak to her, tell her everything I said in our last call was said to keep me away from her until I got over her. Time does heal all. And the Rolls- Royce, and the helicopter helped.”
Last year, the Mirror revealed Sir Nick was dating Lindsay, and told how she had drug convictions and once made a living “jiggling her boobs” in men’s faces as a topless dancer.
When approached by the Mirror, she denied having worked as a dancer, saying, “Oh, my gosh” several times before then adding, “No”.
Randy claimed Lindsay kept trading up hubbies as she was “consumed” with climbing the social ladder.
It was when Lindsay was working as a manager at one of his other businesses, The Tobacco Emporium, that the pair got in trouble.
In 1990, the business was one of 13 stores in central Florida raided by federal agents as part of a three-year undercover probe.
It led to Lindsay, who in 2012 was crowned the Republican party’s Mrs Conservative USA, and Randy being charged with drug offences, including possession of marijuana and selling drug paraphernalia. In October 1990, Lindsay pleaded no contest at state level, which accepts conviction but does not admit guilt, and got a $250 fine (£190) and six months’ probation.
Two years later, in a Florida federal court, she did a deal, entering a guilty plea to a charge of “use of interstate conveyance to ship drug paraphernalia”.
Lindsay, who has used 18 different names and lived at 42 addresses in 25 cities, got six months’ house detention and two years’ probation.
By the time of her sentencing, Lindsay had wed Colonel Nicholas De Marco, who was described in court as a “career officer” in the legal wing of the U.S. Air Force. The charges against her were said to have put the military federal agent in a “sensitive position” as he was previously an FBI liaison.
Her first marriage had been to navy corpsman William Smith in 1982, but he fell on hard times, becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol.
By 2001, she was wed to Thomas Bracken, a successful media executive, and living in Redondo Beach, California. By the late Noughties she was on her sixth marriage, to multi-millionaire Scott Sangalli. She and Sangalli were close to failed 2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
She has been with Faldo for three years and they live in their £2million Ponte Vedra bungalow in Florida.
He has found himself in the romantic rough several times.
He wed Melanie Rockall in 1979, but it ended when it was revealed he had checked into a hotel with another woman claiming to be “Mrs Faldo”.
That was Gill Bennett, who he wed in 1986. They had three children, but it ended in a £7.5million divorce when Faldo, in 1995, took up with 20-year-old golf student Brenna Cepelak.
In turn, Brenna was furious when Faldo, who recently became a grandfather, traded her in three years later for PR consultant Valerie Bercher.
Brenna took a nine iron to his precious £200,000 Porsche, causing £10,000 worth of damage.
“This one is going to last,” he said optimistically of his subsequent marriage to Bercher.
But they, too, divorced, in May 2006.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Elizabeth Taylor’s love life was a huge source of Hollywood gossip as she wed eight times – twice to Richard Burton, with whom she starred in 11 movies.
Hotel heir Conrad Hilton was her first husband, followed by actor Michael Wilding, producer Mike Todd and singer Eddie Fisher. With four divorces under her belt, she and Welshman Burton said “I do”, first in 1964 and again in 1976.
She wed John Warner, US Secretary of the Navy, next – and her last spouse was builder Larry Fortensky.
Burton got hitched five times: to Sybil Christopher, Taylor (twice), model Suzy Miller and theatre producer Sally Hay.