Trio complete Match Play line-up

Open champion Louis Oosthuizen, Australian Aaron Baddeley and Korean Noh Seung-yul complete the 24-man field for next week’s Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain.

Oosthuizen’s inclusion means the four current major champions will all be playing at Finca Cortesin as well as the following week in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.

The South African is the one invited player in the line-up and he said: “I am very grateful – with such an elite field I know there were any number of great candidates who were hoping they would get the call-up.

“I hope I can make the most of the opportunity and am really looking forward to playing in this historic tournament that I watched Ernie Els win so many times.”

Six of the world’s current top seven are competing as well – Lee Westwood, US PGA champion Martin Kaymer, Luke Donald, US Open champion Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy and Paul Casey.

Baddeley is the Australasian representative after Adam Scott, Jason Day, Geoff Ogilvy, Robert Allenby and Vijay Singh all turned down the chance to compete for a first prize of almost £700,000 that is second only to The Open in Europe this year.

Nineteen-year-old Noh represents Asia because YE Yang had already qualified and their fellow Koreans KJ Choi and Kim Kyung-tae and Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa, Yuta Ikeda and Hiroyuki Fujita opted not to play.