Impressive South African with a brilliant short-game, so rarely suffering bad weeks – he's missed just two cuts since the beginning of 2021 and has built a really solid platform on the PGA Tour, without threatening to win. If he does get in the mix early, expect him to stick around. The challenge will be to start better, because all of these high finishes came on the back of comparatively quiet first rounds. On the other, he finished seventh in the same event last year and then eighth in the Open, doubling his career tally of top-10s and hinting at better to come. On the one hand, he's regressed at Augusta having been 10th on debut, and the only time he's been in the mix in a major was when leading the 2018 US Open through three rounds. Equally difficult to assess is his record in majors, which presents some contradictions. Lauded recently for proving that sacrificing distance in the name of control can work, he's the definition of an all-rounder now that his short-game is sharp again, and he doesn't lack for belief which can sometimes come across as arrogance – although that's largely because it is arrogance. Self-styled policeman of Ponte Vedra who returned to the elite when winning the first event back in the summer of 2020, and has remained encamped within the world's top 30 ever since.
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