Shy Dubuisson just wants action to start

For someone who lists ‘socialising’ as one of his interests and has the nickname D’Artagnan, the tag of being the ‘Greta Garbo of golf’ appears at odds for someone like Victor Dubuisson.

However, unlike the famous reclusive Hollywood star of cinema’s golden age, Dubuisson, 24, does not want to be alone, he’d just rather do his socialising out of the glare of the media and has a prickly relationship with journalists in his homeland.

“They will ask you one question about golf and then nine questions about private life, things like that, because they only want to make the story,” he said yesterday as he faced the biggest press conference audience of his fledgling career in the Ryder Cup media centre at Gleneagles and unsurprisingly did not look entirely at ease in the spotlight. Nor does it appear that talking in English was the problem, “he comes across better in English than he does in French,” observed a Paris-based journalist.