This was a bigger procession than a Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Elysees. It was victory for Victor Veyret in the Carrick Neill Scottish Open Amateur Strokeplay Championship as the Frenchman eased to a mighty six shot win at a bright and breezy Gleneagles.

A pair of three-under 67s on the closing day over the King’s Course gave the 21-year-old from Chantilly a 12-under aggregate of 268 and a comfortable win over Ireland’s Conor Purcell with Barassie’s Euan Walker taking third.

Veyret was walking tall in every sense. At a sizeable 6’ 6” he towered over the rest of the field and joined compatriots Francois Illouz, Romain Wattel and Paul Barjon on the championship’s roll of honour. The French connection is strong.

Veyret, who will get an inside-the-ropes experience of the Ryder Cup in Paris next month as a scoreboard carrier, won the Italian Open Amateur title in 2016. “But this is bigger,” he declared of an impressive triumph which featured four sub-70s rounds in testing conditions.

“Playing in wind is not something I am used to but I have learned to do it. My iron play has been very good this week but I think my putting was the key. The greens were perfect.”

After his 67 in the morning, Veyret found himself four shots clear but Robin Dawson flexed his muscles in round three to offer hope to the chasing pack.

Unfortunately, it would be a day of two halves for the Irishman. In the morning he set a new course record to surge into contention. For 11 holes of his closing round, though, he must have felt like he was playing like a broken record as he stuttered and stumbled.

A terrific seven-under 63, which featured a back-nine of 29 and three consecutive birdies to finish at 16, 17 and 18, propelled Dawson into a share of second but his title tilt imploded in the afternoon.

A couple of double-bogeys certainly didn’t help matters but the world No 8 did finish with a flourish and made four birdies on his last five holes in a topsy-turvy 75 for a level-par 280 as he slithered back into a tie for eighth. “There were only two of us Irish guys in the field and we made a deal with our national coach, Neil Manchip, that he would caddie for both of us on the final day,” said Dawson of the influential Edinburgh-born coach who has served Irish golf very well down the years.

“Neil was with me in the morning and I obviously missed him in the afternoon. The 75 was actually better than it looked. In the wind, the course was probably playing two or three shots harder than it was in the morning.”

It was Dawson’s countryman, Purcell, who took up the running even if he must have felt like he was being lapped by the dominant Veyret. Purcell made an eagle on the 18th in a 68 but it was never going to make much of a dent in Veyret’s position of authority.

Walker, the Troon man who will represent Scotland in next week’s Eisenhower Trophy, did get to within three shots of the lead in the early stages of the final round but Veyret staved off any menacing advances with an eagle of his own on the sixth.

When Walker made a double-bogey on the 10th he found himself seven behind and Veyret fortified his place at the summit with another eagle on the driveable 14th.

“It’s been a pretty good week but I just felt my game deteriorating as the day went on,” conceded Walker after a pair of 70s.

“It became a bit of a grind. I tried to hang in there but I was always too far behind and I didn’t really create enough. I was just standing still really.”

Irvine’s Stuart Easton shared fourth on 278.