Scott Vincent

Scott Vincent is a six-time tournament winner and returns to The Open after a four-year absence.

Having made his debut at St Andrews in 2022, the 34-year-old booked his spot at Royal Birkdale through his top-five position on the Official World Golf Ranking’s International Federation Ranking List.

The Zimbabwean sat fifth on that list during week 21 of the year and has been competing on the LIV Golf Tour this season thanks to winning the Asian Tour International Series Order of Merit for the second time in 2025.

He won the International Series Morocco last year in July to go with his International Series England triumph from 2022 which helped him win his first Order of Merit.

Vincent missed out on a third Asian Tour win three months later as he lost out to Wade Ormsby at the Jakarta International Championship in a playoff.

Vincent has won three times on the Japan Tour between August 2021 and May 2022, with the latter of those victories at the Mizuno Open earning him his Open debut at the home of golf.

It came after the Harare-native – now based in his wife’s hometown of Denver – started the final round a massive seven strokes behind Australian Anthony Quayle. However, he caught him with a seven-under-par 65 and won the play-off at the second extra hole.

Vincent turned professional in 2015 after attending Virginia Tech and then recorded five runner-up finishes on the Asian Tour between 2016 and 2019.

His breakthrough in Japan was at the Sansan KBC Augusta in 2021, where he edged out Ryo Ishikawa by a single shot, and four weeks later he added the ANA Open by three from Tomoharu Otsuki.