Jacklin

There, Donald will seek to become only the second captain to lead Europe to victories both home and away since Tony Jacklin at The Belfry, in England, in 1985 and Muirfield Village in Ohio in 1987.

Back then, that wasn’t rare, with Tony Jacklin and John Jacobs having also repeated before Gallagher.

Fleetwood raised hopes of becoming the first English winner of a British Open in England since Tony Jacklin in 1969.

The last player to win on English soil was Tony Jacklin in 1969 at Royal Birkdale.

An Englishman has not won the Open since Nick Faldo in 1992 and, with all three of Faldo's victories coming in Scotland, there has not been a champion on home soil since Tony Jacklin in 1969.