Xander Schauffele

Two months on from claiming his first major title at the PGA Championship, Xander Schauffele won The 152nd Open in superb style at Royal Troon, shooting a final-round 65 to triumph by two.

The 30-year-old was one of six players tied for second going into the final day, but separated himself from the field with a magnificent Sunday performance.

Schauffele had carded four sub-70 rounds in the PGA Championship at Valhalla for a 21-under-par total - the lowest score to par in major championship history.

He won gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics which was a special moment too for his father Stefan, a former decathlete who, at the height of his career, missed out on the Games after a car crash.

Schauffele was outside the world’s top 350 when he tied for fifth on his major debut at the 2017 US Open, but he moved into the top 20 when he was a joint runner-up to Francesco Molinari in the following year’s Open at Carnoustie - and has since reached as high as second in the world rankings.

He was also tied for second at the 2019 Masters behind Tiger Woods and was joint third two months later in the US Open and back at Augusta National in 2021.

He beat Tony Finau in a play-off for the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions title in China in 2018 and in his defence of the title lost a play-off to Rory McIlroy.

He won three of his four games on his Ryder Cup debut in 2021, losing only to McIlroy in the top singles, and repeated that record at the Presidents Cup in September 2023, where his last-green victory over Corey Conners took the United States over the winning line.

Schauffele now has nine PGA Tour titles to his name, including the 2022 Genesis Scottish Open, while he equalled the record for the lowest round in major history with an first-round 62 at the 2023 US Open.