Shaun Norris

Shaun Norris has become a regular feature at The Open. The South African will feature in the championship for the seventh time after cruising to victory in the Mizuno Open, an Open Qualifying Series event, at the end of May.

Norris, 44, posted a tournament-record score of 24-under to triumph by five shots at JFE Setonaikai. The emphatic triumph was his ninth on the Japan Golf Tour and 15th professional win.

He reached a high of 54th in the world in 2020, four years after he was the Japan Tour’s Rookie of the Year and two seasons before he topped the Sunshine Order of Merit.

He came agonisingly close to his third DP World Tour success on two occasions in 2025, missing out in play-offs at both the Joburg Open and the Alfred Dunhill Championship.

Norris was the Japan Open champion in 2021, while back in his amateur days he represented South Africa at the 2002 Eisenhower Trophy world championship alongside future major winners Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel.