LANARKSHIRE swing king Alan McCloskey reckons a quick fix is set to reap long-term rewards for Marc Warren after the Glasgow ace claimed his first European Tour win in seven years at the weekend.

Warren, whose last triumph on the main circuit came on home soil in the 2007 Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, put together a classy, controlled performance to win the Made In Denmark event in Aalborg on Sunday.

Warren teamed up with McCloskey in June after a slow start to the 2014 campaign but the 33-year-old is already feeling the benefits of his work with the highly-respected Bothwell Castle professional.

McCloskey said: "Marc phoned me after an event in Sweden and said, 'Look, I'm really, really struggling, I need something different and you are the man for the job.'

"I sat down with him and gave him my honest opinion of where he was. I simply felt that he was massively under-performing and I told him that. But I also said he wasn't that far away. The management of his body weight wasn't linked to the swing and it was out of sync.

"Fundamentally there was a flaw there and his drives were all blocks and hooks. The good news was that I believed I could fix it in five minutes. I told Marc, 'If it doesn't take five minutes it's because it will take only four minutes.' He killed himself laughing at that.

"I looked at him right in the eye and that was my sales pitch. But he'll look back and think, 'Boy, I was really close and just needed that push in the right direction'."

After claiming his second Euro Tour title in 2007, before going on to partner Colin Montgomerie to World Cup glory for Scotland that same year, Warren was tipped to go right to the top.

But the next few years saw him slide down the European order and he lost his Tour card at the end of the 2010 season.

McCloskey added: "Marc has always been a golfer tipped to be better than just an in-the-pack player. I think Monty started that off. He cited the reason they won the World Cup was because of Marc. That probably affected him.

"Back then Scottish golf was largely all doom and gloom. The rest were struggling and Marc was seen as the great new hope. It didn't turn out that way."

Having emerged stronger from his slump, Warren is now flourishing. Recently he racked up a second successive top-15 finish in the US PGA Championship, the final Major of the year, following a third-place finish in the Scottish Open and a decent showing in The Open at Hoylake.

McCloskey said: "Marc's up to 68th in the world now, which is miles better than he was. He has worked tirelessly. This success doesn't come as a surprise.

"The hard work has got him to the level where, arguably, he should have been a wee while ago. He had great balance and rhythm in Denmark.

"As golf coaches, if we are lucky, we bring that extra one or two per cent but it might just be that one or two per cent that is required to take a player to the new level. Marc brings the desire and the talent, though."