Matt Wallace

A regular feature at The Open in recent years, Wallace has made it to seven of the last eight stagings of the championship.

He ended a six-year wait for a DP World Tour victory at the Omega European Masters in September 2024. The Englishman also achieved his maiden PGA Tour title at the 2023 Corales Puntacana Championship, where he pipped Nicolai Hojgaard by a single stroke.

Wallace had previously climbed into the top 25 of the world rankings following a memorable run which saw him win three times in 2018 and finish joint third at the 2019 PGA Championship.

His maiden victory on his home circuit came at the 2017 Portuguese Open in what was only his fourth event at that level – he did not even have full membership then – and further successes came at the Hero Indian Open, BMW International Open and Made in Denmark tournament, the last two of those in four-man play-offs.

Wallace went into sudden death at the 2022 Omega European Masters, but lost to Thriston Lawrence.

He turned professional in 2012 and on the Alps mini-tour registered an incredible five successive wins and six in all in 2016.