Brian Harman

Tied for third at March’s Players Championship, two strokes behind winner Justin Thomas, and two weeks later was a quarter-finalist in the WGC-Dell Match Play, where he beat past and present Masters champions Bubba Watson and Hideki Matsuyama.

Harman was only one shot behind halfway leader Justin Rose at Augusta in April, but slipped back to joint 12th. A month later, however, his place at Royal St George’s was secure as a member of the world’s top 50.

His best major finish to date came in the 2017 U.S. Open. He led by one with a round to go at Erin Hills, but was then overtaken by Brooks Koepka. That same season saw him win the Wells Fargo Championship and by the following January he stood a career-high 20th in the world.

He was the 2003 U.S. Junior Champion and suffered only one defeat at the 2005 and 2009 Walker Cups.

His first PGA Tour victory was in the 2014 John Deere Classic, which gave him the final exempt spot in The Open at Hoylake a week later. Harman finished joint 26th there, but has not made a cut at an Open since.

He achieved the extraordinary feat of two holes-in-one in the same round at the Barclays in 2015.