Matt Wallace made history on Saturday. He appreciates what he has achieved and is enjoying the extra attention that has come his way, but you will not catch the Moor Park golfer standing still and reflecting. His sights are set higher up the tour ladder.

No player had ever won four Alps Tour events in one season, let alone four in succession, but the 26-year-old changed that when he clinched the Vigevano Open by three shots to stretch his advantage at the top of the tour’s Order of Merit to more than 16,700 points after just six events this year.

Wallace’s historic sequence began at the Dreamland Pyramids Open, he made it back-to-back wins at the Tunisian Golf Open before completing the hat-trick at Austria’s Gosser Open. He said: “I was talking to my roommate Tom Shadbolt, who’s played in The Open, and he was saying winning one and winning another one, that’s quite standard if you’re playing well. Winning three is really good but then to win a fourth is crazy.

“It’s more to do with the mental side. I’ve prepared really well for every tournament, like I will do for the next one. And the good thing with doing this sort of stuff [talking to the media] is I can get it out of the way, say I’ve done it and then it’s done. And then I can go ‘bang, let’s go again, let’s concentrate on the next one’.

"Four wins in a row is history-making but it doesn’t get me ultimately where I want to be, so there’s still stuff to do.”

Success brings opportunity and the Pinner-based golfer is hoping his run of wins opens a “few doors with playing tournaments”. Wallace will not be playing the next Alps Tour event, the Open de St Francois Guadeloupe in the Caribbean which starts on Thursday, but is waiting to see if he has secured an invitation to the European Tour’s Lyoness Open in Austria the following week.

“[I’m going to] see if I can get a few invites while I’m playing well and hopefully keep building on this,” said Wallace. “I’ve stepped up a level in my golf so I’m not exactly going to go straight down. But it's golf, anything can happen. You go through peaks and troughs.”

The former certainly applies to Wallace’s current run of form, although he had to endure a lengthy delay for bad weather before he could get his latest trophy tilt underway in Italy. But the result was an opening five-under-par round of 65 “which was really good for me, to keep myself in contention”.

Wallace went three shots better in the second round with a 62, but he still wasn’t alone at the top of the leaderboard because Julien Clement had a round to truly savour after firing a fabled 59.

Listening to him the Moor Park player talk through dealing with the Swiss player’s challenge offered an insight into not only his current level of confidence and belief in his own game, but also his ongoing quest for improvement.

“He [Clement] was in front of me and I saw him on the 18th and I just heard a huge roar when he holed a putt,” Wallace explained. “I was on the 16th, I had a putt for birdie but I was thinking ‘that’s a 59 because they’re going crazy’. I thought ‘that’s 11-under, he might have shot one-under, two-under, three-under [in his first round] so maximum he’s 14-under total’ and I was ten-under at the time. So I was like ‘let’s catch up so I’m in the final group with him at least’.

“I birdied 16, I missed a putt at 17 but then I eagled 18 – I hit a five iron to three feet – so that got me to 13-under, eight-under for the round. ‘That’s me in the final group, let’s see what he’s on?'. And he was 13-under as well and that’s massive for me.

"I remember when I’ve shot 62 quite a few times it’s really difficult to back it up the next day with a good score and I thought I could have him here mentally.”

That inner belief was to prove well founded after Wallace laid a marker down from the first hole of his final round on Saturday.

“I started off birdie, birdie; I chipped in on the second but I hit a driver on the first when it’s an iron off the tee and it’s quite tight. But I’ve hit it straight down the middle so that was like a stamp on the round,” he explained.

“On the back nine I was three clear after birdying the 12th and he bogeyed it. With a few holes to play I played not safer, but I played to middle of the fairways, middle of the green and then didn’t attack my putts as well as I could have, but I’m going to learn from that next time."

“And then coming down the last, he’s birdied 15 and 17, I missed a putt on 17 from about five feet to go two clear but on the last I hit a four iron of my life really to about two feet from 230 yards for eagle.”

And he added pointedly: “Confidence is high but to be able to do that at the time, at the point that’s what I practice for. I’m really happy it’s paid off.”