Sepp Straka

Sepp Straka climbed into the world’s top 10 for the first time in May by adding the Truist Championship to his American Express victory four months earlier.

In only the tenth major championship of his career, he shared second place at Royal Liverpool in 2023.

This came two weeks after he captured his second PGA Tour title at the John Deere Classic, where he flirted with a closing 59 before double-bogeying the last for a 62.

Two months later he made his Ryder Cup debut as a wild card selection in Rome, where on the opening morning he helped Europe whitewash the Americans by partnering Shane Lowry to a 2&1 victory over Collin Morikawa and Rickie Fowler.

His maiden PGA Tour success was the 2022 Honda Classic – by one stroke over Lowry.

That brought a Masters debut a few weeks later in the same state where he went to university. 

Has an Austrian father and American mother, the family moving to Georgia when he was 14. His twin brother Sam played college golf alongside him.