Jason Kokrak

Jason Kokrak pipped Sergio Garcia to qualify for Royal Portrush via the third Open Qualifying Series spot at the Asian Tour's International Series Macau in March.

In the event he finished three behind runner-up Patrick Reed and six adrift of Carlos Ortiz.

Born in Canada, he was under a month old when his family moved to the United States.

As an amateur Kokrak came through two stages of qualifying to play in the 2007 U.S. Open, but his Open debut did not come until Carnoustie in 2018 after he qualified by finishing joint third in A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier.

After three runner-up finishes on the PGA Tour, all by a single stroke, he captured the 2020 CJ Cup at Shadow Creek, where a closing 64 took him two ahead of Xander Schauffele on his 233rd start on the circuit. He then moved to a career-high 22nd in the world by overcoming Jordan Spieth in the Charles Schwab Challenge and that November added the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open with a closing 65, finishing two ahead of Scottie Scheffler and Kevin Tway.

In 2013 he recorded a hole-in-one on the 409-yard par-4 fifth hole at the McGladrey Classic pro-am.