In the end, everybody went home happy after the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Well, everybody apart from maybe Jamie Dornan, the 50 Shades of Grey star who can perform all manner of erotically charged scenes in front of a film crew but fluffed his lines when asked to putt a dimpled ba’ up through the Valley of Sin.

Apart from that there were smiles all round. Tyrell Hatton won his first European Tour title, Marc Warren safeguarded his card for next season and Danny Willett put his thoroughly miserable Ryder Cup week behind him by winning the Pro-Am team prize.

Hatton’s closing 66 on the Old Course for a record-equalling 23-under aggregate of 265 gave him a four shot triumph over Ross Fisher and Richard Sterne with Scotsman Warren seizing fifth place on his own with a birdie on the last to move to 16-under.

It was a procession to a coronation for Hatton. The 24-year-old, who has been knocking on the door of a maiden win for a while now, had been three ahead overnight and never looked like surrendering his advantage during a pleasant, calm autumn day in the Auld Grey Toon.

Wizened old sages of these ancient links may deliver pearls of golfing wisdom like ‘aye laddie, but no lead is safe until you’re through the 17th’ as they take a big sook on a woodbine but even a dropped shot on that treacherous Road Hole couldn’t derail Hatton’s march. Four birdies on his outward nine gave him a five stroke lead at the turn. The Englishman had plenty of shots to spare. If Hatton was nervous, he didn’t show it as he found himself in uncharted territory.

“This was a new experience for me,” said Hatton, who was runner-up in July’s Scottish Open and tied fifth at the Open the following week. “I had a little bit of experience of being out in the final group of a tournament but I had none whatsoever of leading. I’m really happy with how I dealt with that. The Scottish Open was very important for me and kick-started a good run for me.”

It was a good day for Hatton and it was a good one too for Warren. Languishing down in 125th place on the European Tour’s money list coming into the event, the 35-year-old was in desperate need of a big result to move up into the safety zone of the top-110 and preserve his full playing rights for next season.

A closing 67, polished off with a nice putt of some 10-feet for a three on the 18th, gave Warren a cheque for £155,832 which nearly doubled his earnings for the entire year and propelled him up to 70th on the Race to Dubai. From facing a fight for tour survival, Warren now has his sights on a place in the lucrative Final Series, the cash-laden trio of events for the leading 60 on the rankings.

He may have shoved a hefty pile of money into his bank account but the secret behind his success was provided by more modest sums. “My swing had been getting out of sync and I found a training aid online,” said Warren of this DIY fix. “I watched some YouTube videos of it and thought ‘this looks ideal for me’. I went on to my wife’s Amazon account and bought two of them for 30 quid each. I’ll pay her back now.”

A three-time winner on the European Tour, Warren is a highly talented if volatile campaigner and that inconsistency remains frustrating. In February 2015, he was up to a career-high of 48th in the world rankings but coming into the Dunhill Links he was down in 218th spot.

“When things don’t feel good, the shots are not good and the scores are not good, it all snowballs and adds to the frustration,” he said.

Back in 2011, after another period of struggle, Warren arrived at the Dunhill Links on an invitation from the sponsors and managed a top-five finish which got his full tour card back. There was a touch of déjà vu to proceedings this week. “I was in a similar situation although I do remember on the 18th then I tried to bump-and-run an approach and I ended up making a bogey," he recalled. "I wasn’t going to repeat that this time. Hopefully now I can set my sights on better things rather than just trying to keep my job.”

It’s onwards and upwards.