Rickie Fowler

Missed the 2022 Open after falling outside the world’s top 150 from a high of fourth in 2016 but hauled himself back into the leading 50 just in time to earn himself a return to Royal Liverpool, the course where he was joint second behind Rory McIlroy in 2014. 

Just before that, Fowler achieved his first PGA Tour win for over four years, beating Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin in a play-off at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

His Royal Liverpool near-miss was during a season that also saw him come fifth in The Masters, second to Martin Kaymer at the US Open and third at the PGA Championship.

Fowler’s biggest victory to date remains the 2015 Players Championship, where he played the last six holes in six under par and produced two more birdies to win the play-off against Sergio Garcia and Kevin Kisner.

In 2018, he was a single stroke behind Patrick Reed back at Augusta National. Wins also include the 2015 AAM Scottish Open and 2016 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Led the amateur world rankings for 36 weeks and won seven out of eight Walker Cup games.

Since then, he has collected five Ryder Cup and three Presidents Cup caps.