Thorbjorn Olesen

Thorbjorn Olesen ended nearly four years without a DP World Tour title when he lifted the 2022 Betfred British Masters at The Belfry.

What a victory it was too. After converting a 28-foot eagle chance on the long 17th he needed to par the difficult last to force a play-off with Sebastian Soderberg. He holed from 36 feet for birdie.

In 2023 he added the Thailand Classic and his eighth Tour crown came last season at the Ras Al Khaimah Championship.

Olesen was only 22 when he tied for ninth in The 141st Open at Royal Lytham and St Annes, then on his Masters debut the following April finished joint sixth and climbed to a career-high 33rd in the world rankings.

His one European Tour title at the time was the 2012 Sicilian Open, but he then added titles in Australia, Scotland at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Turkey and Italy, where his closing 64 held off local hero Francesco Molinari. He also combined with Soren Kjeldsen for a better-ball 60 en route to lifting the ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf for Denmark in 2016.

In the European Ryder Cup victory in Paris he recorded a superb 5&4 singles win over Jordan Spieth.