2011 Royal St George’s

Tom Lewis

Playing in The Open as an amateur evokes comparisons with the greats of the game in years gone by, and so it was for 20-year-old Tom Lewis.

Lewis, hailing – like Sir Nick Faldo – from Welwyn Garden City, became the first amateur to lead an Open Championship since Sir Michael Bonallack at Carnoustie in 1968, after an opening five-under-par round of 65.

He would eventually finish in a tie for 30th as Darren Clarke lifted his only Major Championship.