But for Rory McIlroy’s solo march to his second major at Kiawah Island, golf’s final grand event of the season, the USPGA, might have been shunted into the sidings by the medals and records, inspiration and heartache of the London Olympics.

Margaret Abbott was just 22 when she travelled from Chicago to Paris in 1899 along with her mother, literary editor and novelist Mary Perkins Ives Abbott.