Harris English

Makes his eighth Open Championship appearance as a member of the world’s top 50 at the end of May, although failing that he would also have made it in courtesy of his joint-second-place finish at March’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, where three places at Royal Liverpool were on offer as part of The Open Qualifying Series.

English ended more than seven years without a PGA Tour victory by beating Joaquin Niemann in a Sentry Tournament of Champions play-off in Hawaii at the start of 2021.

With it he entered the game’s top 20 for the first time, his ranking having tumbled from 36th in 2014 to 373rd five years later, and by adding the Travelers Championship five months later after a marathon eight-hole play-off against Kramer Hickok he reached a career-high 12th. That came a week after he added a third place finish in the US Open to his fourth spot a year earlier – his best two major performances.

Was then named as one of Steve Stricker’s six wildcard selections for the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. His two previous Tour wins both came in 2013 and he also tied for 15th at Muirfield that season.

As an amateur won on the Nationwide Tour in 2011, the year he played in the Walker Cup at Royal Aberdeen alongside Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay.