Henrik Stenson: ‘We’re only just getting started, aren’t we?’

What a way to grab you and your country’s maiden major championship victory.

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson tore up the record books at Royal Troon with a final-round 63 that not only equalled the lowest round in majors history but gave him the lowest winning 72-hole total in relation to par at 20 under and a winning total of 264 that eclipsed Greg Norman’s mark of 267 set in 1993 at Royal St George’s.

That runner-up Phil Mickelson matched not only Norman’s winning score and Tiger Woods’s previous record mark of 19-under, and still had to settle for second place, three back from Stenson, goes some of the way to summarising the quality of links golf displayed by this championship’s chief protagonists.