Corey Conners

Played in the 2015 Masters after finishing runner-up to Gunn Yang in the previous year’s U.S. Amateur Championship and in 2019 was back at Augusta National thanks to his first PGA Tour victory the week before in the Valero Texas Open.

Conners was in that event only because he won a six-man play-off in the Monday qualifier, making him the first to triumph on the circuit after coming through an earlier stage since Arjun Atwal in 2010.

Conners’ Open Championship debut followed at Royal Portrush after a rise into the world’s top 100 from 677th at the start of 2018 and in his next three Masters appearances he came 10th, eighth and then sixth.

He twice represented Canada in the Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Team Championship, finishing runners-up to the United States in 2014 when Spain’s Jon Rahm was the leading individual, and at the 2021 Olympic Games in Japan was only two strokes away from being involved in the bronze medal play-off.

Conners then earned a Presidents Cup debut in 2022, the year he finished third in the WGC-Dell Match Play.