Ladies and gentlemen, we now know your winner of the 2013 Open Championship. Peter Dawson, the chief executive of the Royal and Ancient, can already fill in the blank in his speech at the awards ceremony tomorrow night. Spoiler alert. The champion golfer of the year is… Graeme McDowell.

Briton is the only player to have won more than one Grand Slam in last year

Wimbledon champ Murray says coach Lendl will keep him focused on success

Murray has spoken of his desire to inspire those coming through

The new Wimbledon champion had little sleep last night but is well aware of what he's achieved

The Scot will have little time to celebrate his Wimbledon victory

Murray wins straight-sets victory to become first home winner since Fred Perry in 1936

Those magical Centre Court tickets were rather easier for some to procure than for others. Being Scottish helped, naturally: there was Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister. Multiple Olympic gold medalist Sir Chris Hoy had a seat, as did the star of ‘The 300’, actor Gerard Butler. The latter had somehow colour co-ordinated his grey jacket with a non-Scot on his right, Hollywood idol Bradley Cooper, which perhaps explains the pair’s smug, sunglassed selfie, captured for posterity on Twitter.

Murray wins straight-sets victory to become first home winner since Fred Perry in 1936

The British number one had to come back from two sets down

The Serbian will play Juan Martin del Potro for a place in the final

Argentine will meet Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals

Scot recruits little-known journeyman to train for quarter-final with southpaw

Amid the chaos and the carnage elsewhere, the top half of the men's draw is the only element that has shown some respect for the form-book. By the end of manic Monday, the four seeds due to reach the quarter-final had all done so.