Oliver Lindell

Oliver Lindell was Finland’s Junior Golfer of the Year three times in a row and represented them in the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

He finished fifth individually behind winner Renato Paratore and silver medallist Marcus Kinhult – both of whom have since won on the DP World Tour.

He is now set for his maiden major championship after surviving a play-off in Final Qualifying at West Lancashire on 1 July. Four players were in the shoot-out for the last two of five Royal Portrush places on offer and Lindell, having saved par with a long putt on the first extra hole, birdied the next to progress.

Lindell went into Final Qualifying on the back of his first top-10 finish on the DP World Tour, at the Italian Open.

He topped the Danish Tour Order of Merit in his first season as a professional and then recorded three runner-up finishes and seven other top-10s on the second-tier HotelPlanner Tour last year.

In the first of those second-places Lindell closed with a 62 in Denmark, then had another during the Czech Challenge.

He won the Duke of York Young Champions Trophy at Prince’s in Kent 10 years ago.