Hannah Darling explains what's next after Augusta National breakthrough

But, as the 18-year-old Broomieknowe player reflected on her exciting story so far playing golf on the other side of the Atlantic, she declared: “This is just the start for me.”

Darling made a sensational start to her college career by leading the University of South Carolina to victory in an event in Minnesota on her debut in September.

In a more recent start for the ‘Gamecocks’, she finished joint-second in the Valspar Augusta Invitational before returning to Georgia to make it through to that dream final round in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

“I think when you come over here, it can be tough,” said the world No 11. “Finishing second in my first event kind of set the tone nicely. But, when you come over here, you quickly notice the grass is so different.

“If I’d played in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur eight months ago when I first got here, I probably wouldn’t have done so well as getting used to the grass is the biggest thing.

“It’s almost hard to see the improvement, I guess, because you are almost put back a step when you come here as you need to learn everything again.

“I was almost at the top of my game in the UK and knew how to play all the shots and this has really challenged me the most. Yeah, this has been good for me.

“You have a three-footer left-to-right back in Scotland, you are really kind of hitting it fairly hard to get it to the hole, but here you are trying to tap it as soft as you can and sometimes that’s just to stop it five foot past the hole if it misses.

“It’s things like that. It has a huge mental impact and it’s something you need to learn to deal with, I guess, but I think I am getting there.”

In that final round at Augusta National, Darling wore a Scottish Golf top and a