MK Kim

In 2018 became the youngest-ever winner on the European Challenge Tour, taking the D+D Real Czech Challenge aged 17 years and 64 days.

Made his Open Championship debut at St Andrews two years ago after capturing the Asian Tour’s Kolon Korea Open – part of The Open Qualifying Series - by beating compatriot Mingyu Cho in a three-hole aggregate play-off.

It was Kim’s first professional victory on home soil and was achieved with a 10-foot birdie putt.

On June 23 he booked a trip to Royal Troon by regaining the title, this time by three strokes from Younghan Song, who will also be in Scotland as a result.

Three weeks before that he also won the Korean Tour’s Descente Munsingwear Match Play, beating Cho Woo-young at the second extra hole in the final, after slipping out of the game’s top 500 from a high of 226th.

Twice a winner on the EuroPro Tour in 2017, he then posted four runner-up finishes on his home circuit.