Sepp Straka

In only the 10th major championship of his career, Straka shared second place at Royal Liverpool in 2023.

That 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.

He began 2022 well outside the game’s leading 200, but with that win and his display at Royal Liverpool he entered the top 25 and in September 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.

Straka almost added the Sanderson Farms Championship the same year, but lost a play-off to Mackenzie Hughes.

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.