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 Portrush this year he will compete in his 25th successive Open

He was a joint runner-up behind Charl Schwartzel in the 2011 Masters and has 11 Presidents Cup caps. His 15 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.

Scott nearly ended more than four years without a win on either the PGA Tour or DP World Tour at the Genesis Scottish Open last July, but Robert MacIntyre's closing birdie denied him a play-off.

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.