Jason Day

Jason Day was joint runner-up behind Brian Harman at Royal Liverpool, a result which helped him return to the game’s top 20 six years after the end of his 51-week reign as world No.1.

Seven wins in under a year included his first major at the 2015 PGA Championship, a second World Golf Championship and the 2016 Players Championship but Day then fell to 175th and it was not until the 2023 Byron Nelson that he ended a five-year search for his 13th PGA Tour success.

At Whistling Straits, the former world junior champion became the first player to finish a major 20-under-par as he beat Jordan Spieth by three.

A month earlier, he had a putt to tie for The Open at St Andrews, but left it inches short and tied for fourth.

The following season, he came close to a successful defence of the PGA crown with a last-hole eagle, but Jimmy Walker pipped him by a stroke.

He was runner-up in both The Masters and US Open - only his third and fourth majors – in 2011 and two years later the four-time Presidents Cup player came second at the US Open again.

Day finished joint eighth at The Masters in April.