Harrison Crowe

Winner in October of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Thailand, where he got up and down from over the final green to beat China’s Bo Jin by one stroke.

Placed 43rd on the World Amateur Golf Rankings going into the event, Crowe was three shots behind with nine holes to play, but hit back with four birdies in five holes and then saw Jin double-bogey the short island green 17th.

It followed a season in which he also won the New South Wales and Victorian amateur titles, the Australian Master of the Amateurs and then the New South Wales Open, making him only the sixth amateur to lift the Kel Nagle Cup and just the second – after Jim Ferrier in 1937-38 – to hold that and the NSW amateur crown at the same time.

On his Asia-Pacific triumph, which came two weeks after his 21st birthday and also earned him an invitation to April’s Masters at Augusta National, he said: “It means so much and I certainly had to dig deep. At the turn I kind of told my dad and his mate that I just needed one to drop and from there I backed myself to keep it going.”