Ryan Fox

Runner-up to Rory McIlroy on the 2022 DP World Tour Rankings and entered the world’s top 25 after starting the year outside the leading 200.

But his biggest win came in September in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, where he beat Tyrrell Hatton and Aaron Rai with a final hole birdie.

Son of former New Zealand rugby great Grant Fox, the Aucklander has four DP World Tour titles to his name, but it could so easily have been more.

At the 2018 Irish Open, Russell Knox forced sudden death with him with a 40-foot effort at the last and repeated it to take the trophy, then in the 2022 Dutch Open Victor Perez stayed alive in their play-off with putts of 20 and 30 feet before making a 40-footer to win.

But Fox, winner of the 2019 Australasian Tour Order of Merit, was not to be denied at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews later the same season, beating Alex Noren and Callum Shinkwin by one.

Represented New Zealand at the 2016 and 2021 Olympics, but surprisingly his best major was his tie for 16th in the 2019 Open.