Adam Scott

Adam Scott became Australia's first winner of the Masters when he beat Angel Cabrera in a play-off in 2013, thus easing the pain of the previous year's Open.

At Royal Lytham & St Annes, Scott established a four-stroke lead with four holes to play but he bogeyed them all and agonisingly lost by one courtesy of Ernie Els’s closing birdie.

Scott tied for third at Muirfield a year later and was joint-fifth at Royal Liverpool in 2014, two months after reaching world No.1. At Royal Birkdale he is set to make his 26th consecutive appearance at The Open after securing one of the three Open Qualifying Series spots on offer at the Crown Australian Open.

He hasn’t missed a Championship since making his debut at St Andrews in 2000.

He was a joint runner-up behind Charl Schwartzel in the 2011 Masters and his victories in the US include the 2004 Players Championship, 2006 Tour Championship, 2011 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, where he started with a 62, and the 2016 WGC-Cadillac Championship a week after lifting the Honda Classic.

At 19, his 63 in the 2000 Greg Norman Holden International in Sydney was a record 10-under-par score for an amateur on the DP World Tour.