Ever since the Bishop of Galloway left a four-footer laughably short on the Leith Links in 1619, golfers have been cursing their putters, wrapping them round trees, snapping them over their thighs and flinging them furiously into a fusty corner of the potting shed.

“The less said about the putter the better,” suggested good old Tony Lema back in the day. “Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil’s own smithy.”

That may be true for many a scunnered golfer but as far as Georgia Hall is concerned, this particular club in bag may as well have been fashioned by the angels fluttering about in heaven.

“I was holding my putter today and was thinking, ‘the last time I held this was when I won the British Open’,” said the 22-year-old in cooing reverence at the putter she wielded with such terrific purpose during her major-winning breakthrough at Royal Lytham on Sunday night. “It was such a nice feeling.”

There’s no rest for the winner in this game and Hall is back in the saddle this week preparing for the inaugural European Golf Team Championships over the PGA Centenary course at Gleneagles.

Given the whirlwind that was whipped up in the aftermath of her victory, it’s hardly surprising that the Dorset youngster is feeling somewhat jiggered.

Having been spurred on ahead of the final round by messages of support from the likes of Tom Lehman, Sam Torrance and Catriona Matthew, Hall’s mobile phone just about melted amid the tsunami of triumphant texts and tweets it received in the jubilant aftermath.

“I couldn’t believe the number of messages and I actually turned my phone off for a bit as there were so many,” she added. “When I turned it back on, I was like ‘wow’.”

By all accounts Hall probably could’ve done with the kind of prolonged sleep that Rip Van Winkle enjoyed but she’s here and she’s raring to go … again.

“I spent about three hours on Sunday night doing media stuff and was up again to do more at 5am,” she said of a hectic couple of days. “I’ve not really had time to celebrate.

“I was asked after the British Open if I’d be pulling out (of Gleneagles) but I had committed to this event. I know the British Open is massive but just because I won it, it doesn’t mean I should change my whole schedule. I just love golf and I didn’t think about pulling out for a minute.”

Hall, who has barged her way up to No 10 on the women’s world rankings, became just the fifth British woman to win a major title. She’s clearly hungry for more.

“I had the trophy on a table in my room and it’s amazing to think of how many rooms that trophy will have been in,” she said of a prize that was a nice sight to wake up to. “There are some really big names on it and to think mine will be on it too is great. I want it on again already.”

This week’s affair in Perthshire will be something of a generation game as Hall partners the 54-year-old Laura Davies in one of six British teams competing over the next few days.

Davies, who claimed the last of her four majors the year Hall was born in 1996, won twice in this neck of the woods in 1999 and 2001 on the Ladies European Tour and the grand dame of British women’s golf is happy to be feeding off the feel good factor generated by her young compatriot.

“I’m banking on my partner as it’s fourballs the first couple of days so I’ll just be hanging on to her coat-tails,” she said with a smile.

“Georgia will be fine. There’s nothing better than your first tournament after a win … and you just love talking about how good you’ve been in press conferences. A lot of people will have seen what Georgia achieved on Sunday. Not everyone is going to turn out to be world No 1 but even if it gets people started golf an early age then that will be a good thing.”

The Scottish duo of Liam Johnston and Connor Syme, another Team GB pairing, both started at a young age when they were based in Dumfries and they are looking forward to rekindling those days of yore here at Gleneagles.

“We used to have putting competitions when we were younger to win a ball but it would be nice to win a medal,” said Johnston.

There will be three days of fourball matchplay in group stages to decide the semi-finalists for the men’s and women’s events with a separate mixed team contest in a foursomes strokeplay format taking place on Saturday.

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