Joost Luiten

A six-time winner on the DP World Tour who will be playing his 10th Open Championship thanks to finishing in the circuit’s top 30 for the seventh time last season.

Luiten, who has also made it into the world’s leading 30 during his career, first came to prominence when the Netherlands became World Amateur Team champions in South Africa in 2006, playing the last five holes in six-under-par.

His first tour success came five years later in Malaysia, then two years after that he added both the Lyoness Open in Austria and KLM Open on home soil. Also captured the Wales Open in 2014, the KLM Open again in 2016 - that was achieved with a closing 63 – and the 2018 Oman Open.

Runner-up at last season’s BMW International Open and was then in the news when he managed to get not one, not two, but three clubs stuck in a tree at the DP World Tour Championship.

Represented his country at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil and helped Continental Europe beat Britain and Ireland in the 2013 Seve Trophy, winning all four games with Gregory Bourdy. Full name is Willibrordus Adrianus Maria Luiten.