Oliver Farr

Father Graham played in the 1990 and 1993 Opens and Oliver is into his second Championship after surviving the 36-hole Final Qualifying competition at Royal Porthcawl on July 4.

He came through at Hollinwell to make The 150th Open and the Welshman said: “I played better than I scored at St Andrews last year and hopefully I can learn from that and do the things I did to play well, while maybe trying to enjoy the experience a bit more. I was a bit too result-focused last year, this time I just want to enjoy it.”

Farr represented his country three times in the European amateur team championship and once in the Eisenhower Trophy world championships before turning professional in 2011.

He is a three-time winner on the European Challenge Tour, capturing the Turkish Airlines Challenge in 2014, the Foshan Open in China three years later and then the Lalla Aicha Challenge in Morocco in 2019.

Finished in the circuit’s top 12 in each of those years to earn promotion to the DP World Tour, his best performance being a tie for third in the 2020 Hero Open at the Forest of Arden, where Sam Horsfield was the winner.

His first major was actually the 2015 US Open.