Viktor Hovland

Joint 12th on his Open debut at Royal St George's, Viktor Hovland shared the lead with Rory McIlroy with a round to go at St Andrews in 2022 but finished joint-fourth.

That was his best major finish until May’s PGA Championship, where he tied for second with Scottie Scheffler behind Brooks Koepka.

A month later won the Memorial Tournament for his fourth PGA Tour title and then came an astonishing end to their season. A closing 61 landed him the BMW Championship and a week later his last-round 63 secured the Tour Championship and $18million FedEx Cup bonus.

Not content with that, and reaching the world’s top three, he then became one of Europe’s stars at the Ryder Cup, his three-and-a-half points including a singles win over Collin Morikawa and mind-blowing 9&7 thrashing of Scheffler and Koepka alongside debutant Ludwig Aberg.

Hovland was the first Norwegian to win the US Amateur title in 2018 and in coming joint 12th at the 2019 US Open broke the championship record for an amateur set by Jack Nicklaus in 1960.

Also had a 32nd place at The Masters before embarking on a professional career which has already produced 10 wins – all by the age of 25.