Matt Fitzpatrick

A month after finishing joint fifth in the PGA Championship Fitzpatrick held off then-world No.1 Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris to join Justin Rose as England’s only winner of the US Open since Tony Jacklin’s 1970 triumph.

It came on the same Brookline course where he became US Amateur champion in 2013 – and he was the first English winner of that title since 1911.

Fitzpatrick went top of the amateur world rankings as a result, while his US Open victory took him into the game’s top 10 for the first time.

Leading amateur in the 2013 Open, where he finished joint 44th aged 18, the former British boy champion won Walker and Ryder Cup honours in the space of three years and now has eight DP World Tour titles, including two season-ending Tour Championships, and in April enjoyed his second win in America at the RBC Heritage, where he beat Jordan Spieth in a play-off.

In his first full season as a professional, he had a round of 60 at the KLM Open and achieved his maiden victory in the British Masters. In 2019, the Yorkshireman had no fewer than five runner-up finishes, including the PGA Tour’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, then in 2020 was just pipped to the European No.1 crown by Lee Westwood.