His wife didn’t believe him but Russell Knox had first-hand experience of a pop star’s life in Shanghai. Visiting the Chinese city as defending champion of the WGC-HSBC Champions event, the Scot said he had been mobbed by fans mistaking him for Justin Timberlake.

"At the St John's Town Centre, this woman runs up to me screaming," said Knox, although she then realised her mistake. "She gets five steps away and was 'Oh' and walked away.”

However, when the US-based golfer related this to his wife, former tennis player Andrea Hernandez, "She was like: `No, never. I don't see it. I don't think so'.”