Sepp Straka

Sepp Straka shared second place at The 151st Open at Royal Liverpool in only his tenth major championship appearance.

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.

He won twice on the PGA Tour in 2025, adding the Truist Championship in May to his American Express victory four months earlier, and was part of the winning European Ryder Cup team at Bethpage Black.