Abraham Ancer

Abraham Ancer was only one stroke away from a top-10 finish in The 150th Open at St Andrews.

But after switching to the LIV Golf tour, he had to wait until the end of May last season to secure his place at Royal Liverpool as a member of the world’s top 50 and became part of the field for Royal Troon even later this time, hitting back from a second-round triple-bogey and surviving a four-for-two play-off in the 36-hole Final Qualifying event at Burnham and Berrow on July 2.

Was a five-stroke winner of the 2018 Emirates Australian Open, where three spots were available in the Open Qualifying Series and a week later partnered Roberto Diaz as Mexico achieved their best-ever World Cup result, joint second behind Belgians Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry.

Another runner-up finish at the 2019 Northern Trust tournament led to automatic selection for the International side at the Presidents Cup, where he was one of Ernie Els’s star performers with 3 ½ points out of four before losing the top singles to Tiger Woods. Made his Open debut at Carnoustie in 2018 thanks to a joint fourth place at the Quicken Loans National.

Born in Texas, but raised in Mexico and has dual citizenship.