If you’re a professional golfer these days, there seem to be more tours than you can shake a stick at.

Rummage around long enough and you’ll probably find a mini-circuit for professional stick-shaking.

At any level of this global, cut-throat game, a win is a win. Not every golfer gets to experience that winning feeling in their career so it’s hardly surprising that Ross Kellett is savouring something of a rarity.

Given that there have not been many Scottish successes on the various pro circuits of late, you could be forgiven for thinking that Kellett’s win in the Mediterranean Tour’s Mirage Classic was just, well, an eye-rubbing figment of the imagination.

It was very real, though, and his 14-under winning tally in Egypt provided a timely tonic for the Motherwell man ahead of the European Challenge Tour season, which starts later this month in Kenya.

“My first win, and my only win up until this week, was back in 2012 on the Alps Tour so it’s been a while,” said the 30-year-old after finishing at the top of the pile again.

“It was nice to pull through and prove I still have what it takes. Playing well down the stretch when it matters is always a good sign.”

In these rapid-fire, 54-hole shoot-outs, you have to be out of the blocks quickly. Three sub-70 rounds propelled Kellett to the front in a field which included plenty of players who will be his rivals on the second-tier Challenge Tour in 2018 as the increasingly fierce scramble to earn promotion to the main European Tour grows ever more ferocious.

“There were plenty of good players from the Challenge Tour who took the level of the field up,” said Kellett in the wake of this handy tune-up for the rigours that lie ahead.

“I’d say the satisfaction from winning this week is almost the same as any win I’ve had in the past. It’s a real sense of achievement knowing you’ve managed to come out on top at the end of a week.”

Kellett will now be aiming to hit the ground running in Kenya as he embarks on another campaign on the hugely competitive Challenge Tour.

It would be a good event to make an immediate impact given that the tournament boasts the biggest prize fund of the Challenge Tour season. A good result in this one tees things off nicely in the push to gain one of the 15 European Tour places on offer at the end of the season.

With over 30 events on the schedule, which includes wide-ranging stops in China, the Middle East and Kazakhstan, Kellett will be spending plenty of time on the road.

He’ll even have to sacrifice his beloved Motherwell’s Scottish Cup semi-final Hampden. “I wasn’t sure the date of the semi anyway,” he added wryly. Kellett has his own silver lining to aim for, of course.

“I have full playing rights on the Challenge Tour so I can pick and choose my schedule and build a season around how I want it,” he said. “I aim to play around 25 events and it’s important to have some rest through the summer with the hectic travel we do.

“I’m feeling right up for the season and it would be nice to build on a win so early in the year. This is my sixth season as a pro. Looking back, I don’t have any regrets as to the way I’ve approached it.

“What I think I do have to be, though, is more aggressive. I have to take more on when on the course if I am to progress and that’s something I am working on.”

Kellet is now in Dubai for a few days before heading to Kenya next week. It’s not a bad old life.

“Dubai is a great spot to spend some time,” he said of his pleasant base. “The courses are amazing and with there being so many Scots running clubs over here they are more than happy to have me .

“Some Scottish clubs could take a leaf out of their book.”