THE tournament winner accepted the congratulations, collected his cheque and headed towards his hotel.

There was no time for champagne or misty-eyed reminiscence with any besotted press pack. There was an alarm to be set, a flight to be caught and 23 hours to spent in the air, winding the way from the Mexican city of Cordoba to Scotland.

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