A talented footballer, his father is the popular former manager Harry Redknapp.
He played 239 times for Liverpool and also Bournemouth, Tottenham and Southampton and won 17 England caps.
He is now a football analyst with Sky TV.
This is his 11th appearance in the Alfred Dunhill Links.
Says making the cut in 2009 with partner Luke Donald and playing in the last group with Rory McIlroy and his father Gerry on the Old Course was a day he will never forget.