Only five Major champions, with ten championships between them were left-handed: Sir Bob Charles, Mike Weir, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson and Brian Harman.

Until very recently, left-handed golfers - and especially good ones - were a rarity. The reasons usually given are a lack of left-handed equipment, overwhelmingly right-handed coaches, and the fact that it actually makes more sense to play right-handed if your leading (i.e. stronger) hand is the left.

Bob Charles (Sir Robert Charles since his 1999 knighthood) of New Zealand, was the first left-hander to win a major championship. won the Open Championship in 1963 at Royal Lytham & St Annes in an 18 hole playoff with American Phil Rogers.

It would be 40 years before the next left-hander claimed a major, in the person of Canadian Mike Weir at the 2003 Masters, also won in a sudden -death playoff with American Len Mattiace.

Hot on his heels came Phil Mickelson (known affectionately as 'Lefty').

Perhaps reinforcing the point that the leading hand should be the stronger hand, both Mickelson and Weir are right-handed for everything except golf.

Bubba Watson won the 2012 Masters in a playoff against Louis Oosthuizen, meaning that five of the ten major victories by left-handers have come at Augusta National.

Most recently, Brian Harman won the British Open at Royal Liverpool, winning by six shots.

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Jon Rahm, Jason Day, Sepp Straka and Tom Kim finished tied for second.