Adam Scott

Became Australia's first winner of the Masters when he beat Angel Cabrera in a play-off in 2013, thus easing the pain of the previous year's Open.

At Royal Lytham & St Annes, Scott established a four-stroke lead with four holes to play but he bogeyed them all and agonisingly lost by one courtesy of Ernie Els’ closing birdie.

Scott tied for third at Muirfield a year later and was joint-fifth at Royal Liverpool in 2014, two months after reaching world No.1.

Scott will now compete in his 24th successive Open after grabbing one of the three spots on offer at December’s Australian Open. He tied for fourth, but third-placed Min Woo Lee was already exempt and he had a higher world ranking than Scotland’s Grant Forrest and England’s Laurie Canter.

He was a joint runner-up behind Charl Schwartzel in the 2011 Masters and has 10 Presidents Cup caps. Other victories include the 2004 Players Championship, 2006 Tour Championship, 2011 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, where he started with a 62, and the 2016 WGC-Cadillac Championship a week after lifting the Honda Classic.

At 19, his 63 in the 2000 Greg Norman Holden International in Sydney was a record 10-under-par score for an amateur on the DP World Tour. Just pipped by Robert MacIntyre at Sunday’s Genesis Scottish Open.