Max Greyserman

Max Greyserman made his major debut in the 2017 US Open, but The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush represented his first appearance in the championship after a climb into the world’s top 50.

He returns at Royal Birkdale in 2026 having now recorded five runner-up finishes on the PGA TOUR as he continues to chase a maiden title.

The most recent near-misses for Greyserman came last year at June's Rocket Classic and October's Baycurrent Classic in Japan.

In the first of those events he posted a 22-under aggregate only to be beaten in a play-off by Aldrich Potgieter. Greyserman then finished with a final-round 65 at the Baycurrent Classic, but lost by one as Xander Schauffele closed with a 64.

Greyserman's mother was a tennis scholar at Rutgers University in New Jersey, but it was in golf that he and his brother Reed both won the state amateur title.