Every cloud has a silver lining ... except here in Scotland, of course, where the said linings of these morale-sapping clumps of liquid droplets that have been hanging over us for weeks on end are now so sodden they’ve started to rust round the edges like the wheel arches of an old Austin Allegro.

The wretchedness goes on and on. Yes, there are these occasional bursts of sun and blue sky amid the overwhelming bleakness but that merely acts as a sighing reminder of what you could have had, like watching Jim Bowen’s minions wheeling out a sparkling new Talbot Samba after you’d failed to get 101 or more in six darts on an episode of Bullseye.

“You guys get a cold winter and then a winter and that’s all you get?” suggested Inbee Park, after winning the Ricoh Women’s British Open at Turnberry on Sunday. Forget all these grandiose schemes to bolster participation in golf. When courses are flooded and shut during the height of the summer, and folk are continuing to question why they are forking out hundreds of pounds for a diminishing season, there’s not a lot you can do if Mother Nature doesn’t play ball. But that’s a doom-laden topic for another Armageddon-themed week.

At the end of the country’s month-long hosting of a variety of events, the victory of the engaging Park was a fitting conclusion to what has been a captivating bounce around the various golfing corners of the nation.

Her conquest on the Ailsa Course was full of poise, purpose and a tempo that never wavered. The smoothness and timing of her swing was like a metronome while the crucial putts were gobbled up with clinical efficiency. It was the performance that had all the hallmarks of one of the greats. In some ways, Park doesn’t look like a dominant golfer but she does dominate. It’s a bit like Jordan Spieth. They don’t over-power courses but they out-fox and out-think them.

The career Grand Slam was completed by Park ...or was it? Nothing is ever simple in this game. The winning of the four majors in golf during one season – as the great Bobby Jones did back in 1930 when the US and British Amateur titles were included among the big four - was known as the storming of ‘the impregnable quadrilateral’. Park’s achievements have prompted the ‘impenetrable quandary’.

By taking something that, in golfing terms at least, traditionally has meant four majors and adding another event to the list, we can blame the LPGA Tour’s top brass for stoking all of this head scratching and questioning. Elevating the Evian Championship to major status in 2013, the year after Park won it, leaves everybody in a pickle. “Well, it’s not a career Grand Slam then is it?” argues one person. “Aye, but her name’s still on the Evian trophy so, in effect, it is,” pipes up another. “But shouldn’t the Grand Slam just be the four majors anyway?” bleats somebody else. Before you know it, everybody is bickering, blethering and finger jabbing about this, that and the other. The great shame, of course, is that there is debate over this astonishing feat in the first instance.

Officials at the tour have stated that “for players who have won four different majors available in their careers, the LPGA has and will continue to acknowledge them as having accomplished a career Grand Slam.”

But there’s more. “For players who have won five different majors, the LPGA has and will continue to acknowledge them as having accomplished a Super Career Grand Slam.”

Good grief. So Park has a career Grand Slam but she could have a Super Career Grand Slam with an asterisk attached to it as her super win in the Evian three years ago wasn’t super enough as it hadn’t reached super status then. Of course, this whole Grand Slam debate has many quirky layers as the LPGA Tour has not always had four majors. Since its inception in 1950, the number on offer annually has varied from two, to three to four and now five.

Whatever way you look at it, Park’s accomplishments are certainly grand. The creation of a fifth major has led to much ambiguity, though, and Park’s remarkable efforts deserve much, much better than this humming and hawing over what she has or hasn’t achieved.

Not that she’ll be losing much sleep over it. Park has strengthened her position at the top of the world rankings but she knows she can’t rest on her laurels. In 20 LPGA Tour events this year, Korean players have won 12 of them. “There is a pack of young Koreans that is just lined up and waiting to come out to the tour,” said Park. “I have to keep pushing myself.”

Somewhat ungraciously, Cristie Kerr, the two-time major winner, remarked that the Koreans are “like machines, they practise 10 hours a day.”

As the latest Korean to dominate the women’s game, though, Park is well aware that this production line continues to be jam-packed with eastern promise.