Antoine Rozner

Rozner made his major debut at the 2021 PGA Championship and two months later played his first Open after being called up the previous Saturday as replacement for South Korean KH Lee.

He now returns after coming through the 36-hole Final Qualifying event at Royal Cinque Ports on July 4 in joint third place with South Africans Charl Schwartzel and Branden Grace.

The winner of six tournaments while at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, he turned professional in 2016 aged 23 after representing France in the Eisenhower Trophy world amateur team championship in Mexico and Europe in the Palmer Cup college match against the United States at Formby, where he won all his four games.

Rozner, whose older brother Olivier is also a professional, won twice on the 2019 Challenge Tour and has already matched that on stepping up to the main circuit. He captured the 2020 Golf in Dubai Championship by two with a closing 64 and on returning to the Middle East the following March added the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in even more dramatic fashion, sinking a closing 60-foot birdie putt to triumph by one.

It took him to a career-high 63rd in the world. Then in December he captured a third trophy at the AfrAsia Mauritius Open.