Victor Perez

Began 2023 with his third DP World Tour victory at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, holing a bunker shot at the penultimate hole, and ended it in seventh place on the Race to Dubai rankings.

That was only one outside his career high in 2021, a season which saw him make his Open debut and climb into the world’s top 30.

He sealed his place at St Andrews in stunning fashion at the Dutch Open, part of The Open Qualifying Series. In a play-off with Ryan Fox, Perez stayed alive with putts of 20 and 30 feet at the first and third extra holes and then made another from over 40 feet to win on the next.

His one previous Tour success was at the Home of Golf in the 2019 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship close to his home in Dundee.

Was then in a six-man play-off for the Turkish Airlines Open, runner-up in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and BMW PGA Championship and, in 2021, reached the semi-finals of the WGC-Dell Match Play.

First made a real name for himself at the 2014 Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Team Championship, where he finished second leading individual behind Jon Rahm.

span class="article-copy">Impressed on the PGA Tour in June when finishing third at the RBC Canadian Open.