Scottish Open Sleeper Picks – The first leg of the U.K. swing begins at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland, for Year 3 of the co-sanctioned Scottish Open. The Scottish Open is now jointly hosted by the DPWT and PGA Tour, with 75 golfers from each tour participating. The tournament serves as a warm-up for next week’s Open Championship at Royal Troon.
“The Renaissance Club” is located in North Berwick, Scotland, adjacent to Muirfield on 300 acres along the famous golf-playing coastline off the Firth of Forth. Completed in 2008 by renowned architect Tom Doak, the club was designed from the swath of an ancient pine forest.
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The course is not a typical l💖inks setup due to its tree-lined holes, undulations, and heavy rough just off the fairways (especially on the back nine). Despite this, there is a definite links-style aspect to the course. Located along the coastline, it is subject to windy conditions, and the red fescue turf is firm and tight, resulting in fast-running surfaces on the fairways and aprons. Additionally, the lack of bunkers in front of the greens encourages the use of the ground game an🍎d bump-and-run shots. Most bunkers on the course are links-style pot bunkers with deep riveted faces.
Over the last ten years, the club has established itself as a prominent venue in Scottish golf, hosting four Scottish Opens as well as professional women’s and senior events. This tournament, along with the concurrent ISCO Championship in Kentucky, is the only co-sanctioned event between the PGA Tour and DP World Tour. Prior to becoming a PGA Tour event two years ago, 22 of the last 24 champions were regular members of the DP World Tour. PGA players generally considered this tournament as a warm-up for The Open Championship. However, in the last two years, PGA stars Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy (last year) achieved victories, breaking the trend of DP World Tour members dominating the event.
With 18 of the top 30 players in the world making the trip to North Berwick, this year’s Scottish Open will feature one of the strongest fields in its history. As a co-sanctioned event, there will be an equal number of PGA Tour players and DP World Tour players, with 75 players from each tour participating. Many players will be highly motivated, as the top three finishers who have not already qualified will secure a spot in the Open Championship, provided they finish in the top 10 at Renaissance.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has opted to prepare on his own for next week’s Open Championship, joining Patrick Cantlay as the only eligible top-25 players not in attendance this week. Other top players not making the trip overseas include Tony Finau, Russell Henley, Keegan Bradley, Cameron Young, and Akshay Bhatia.
Rory McIlroy will be back to defend his win from last year and will be making his first appearance since struggling at last month’s U.S. Open. Scotland native Robert Macintyre, last year’s runner-up, will return as a PGA Tour champion after winning the Canadian Open a few weeks ago. Other past Scottish Open champions teeing it up this week include world No. 3 Xander Schauffele, Min Woo Lee, Aaron Rai, and DP World Tour player and former LIV Golf member Bernd Wiesberger.
Among the top players from the DP World Tour competing this week, besides Wiesberger, are Rasmus Hojgaard, Jordan Smith, Guido Migliozzi, Tom McKibbin, Keita Nakajima, and Thriston Lawrence. Several former DP World Tour players are now regulars on the PGA Tou๊r, including Macintyre, Ryan Fox, Alexander Bjork, and Matthieu Pavon.
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2024 Scottish Open Sleeper Picks and Longshots
Tom Hoge
A poor final round at last year’s Scottish Open knocked Tom Hoge out of the top 10 and down to T19, and that strong performance isn’t surprising because what he does best profiles well here. He’s coming off his best finish of the season, a T3 at the Travelers Championship, where his irons were white hot.
Hoge ranks seventh this week in my statistical model on , which shows that he thrives on putting on slow greens. I like backing Hoge when he’s in tip-top form, and that’s what we have this week.
Will Zalatoris
This is a bet on talent at a crazy ꦐbig number♋. Most of the golf betting community, myself included, have tripped over themselves to bet on Will Zalatoris at 30/1 or shorter dozens of times over the past few years, so seeing him at 110/1 is a bit jarring.
Let’s call a spade a spade here, though. Zalatoris hasn’t sniffed a top-20 finish since his T9 at the Masters back in April. In fact, he has yet to finish inside the top 40 since that start. It’s not pretty. But golf is fickle, as is form, and Zalatoris is an elite ball striker who could get back to his top-tier form at any point.
