Rasmus Hojgaard

Rasmus Hojgaard, along with twin brother Nicolai, has continued to impress since helping Denmark to their first-ever victory at the Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Team Championship in Ireland in 2018.

While Nicolai, European amateur champion that same year, was part of the Ryder Cup-winning side in Rome in 2023 Rasmus’s five DP World Tour titles means he leads the sibling rivalry in that regard.

The latest victory was a dramatic success at the Amgen Irish Open in September where three closing birdies – the second of them from a greenside bunker – gave him a closing 65 and one-stroke victory over Rory McIlroy.

They were locked in battle again at November’s DP World Tour Championship and while McIlroy triumphed Hojgaard’s runner-up spot lifted him to second on the Tour rankings and into the world’s top 50 for the first time.

The twin brothers achieved a remarkable double in 2021. Seven days after Rasmus lifted the Omega European Masters for his third victory Nicolai enjoyed his first win at the DS Automobiles Italian Open, the first time in Tour history that brothers had won in successive weeks.

After turning professional Rasmus had to wait until only his fifth event on the main circuit to taste success and at 18 years 271 days was the tour’s third youngest winner behind Matteo Manassero and Danny Lee.