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\"FelipicBy Jim McCabe<\/strong><\/p>\n

As natural ideas go, playing the Genesis Scottish Open the week before the Open Championship is so seamless one wonders how it ever took so long to match it up like that.<\/p>\n

Then again, there was probably a time when peanut butter and jelly sandwiches didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

But today\u2019s world-class players will not concern themselves with what happened in bygone eras; instead, they cherish the fact that creative minds saw the benefit of playing the Scottish Open on links the week before the Open Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a massive event when you think about it,\u201d said American Billy Horschel. \u201cWhen you look at what\u2019s on that wall (a rollcall of former winners of the Genesis Scottish Open) and you appreciate the fact that it\u2019s now co-sanctioned by the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour, this is what we play for.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to compete against the best players and see where we stand with our games and what better place than to do it here at the Renaissance Club,\u201d said Horschel.<\/p>\n

Should you wonder if Horschel is piling on the hyberbole, a check of the entry list for this year\u2019s July 13-16 gathering at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick confirms that he is not.<\/p>\n

At least eight of the world\u2019s top 10 players, including Nos. 1-2-3 (Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy) are committed and the headliners don\u2019t stop there. That\u2019s because Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler, and defending champion, Xander Schauffele have signed on. So, too, international favorites such as Viktor Hovland (Scotland), Shane Lowry (Ireland), Adam Scott (Australia) and Robert MacIntyre, the popular Scotsman who\u2019ll be in front of countrymen.<\/p>\n

Wyndham Clark, the surprising winner of the recent U.S. Open, will tee it up, as will a pair of Englishmen who also won that major \u2013 Matt Fitzpatrick (2022) and Justin Rose (2013).<\/p>\n

Horschel, winner of seven PGA TOUR tournaments and the DP World Tour\u2019s flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship, said the depth of field matters. \u201cWe want to be known as players who won the same tournament as Tiger Woods, the same as Arnold Palmer, and that we won National Opens.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Scottish Open might not be as old as the Open Championship or the other majors, it has been staged for more than 50 years and being tied to a country that is considered to be the \u201cHome of Golf\u201d speaks volumes for its richness.<\/p>\n

For more than 20 years, the Scottish Open was played at a world-class parkland golf course \u2013 Loch Lomond \u2013 but there are three reasons why it has morphed into a must-play event.<\/p>\n

One, it is one of five tournaments in the DP World Tour\u2019s Rolex Series. Two, the Scottish Open is now sponsored by Genesis and it is co-sanctioned by the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour. But most important to players is Reason No. 3 \u2013 the ability to play a true links the week before the Open Championship and to make travel so much easier to the following week\u2019s venue (for this year it will be Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, England).<\/p>\n

When championship organisers moved the Scottish Open to a links in 2011, players talked passionately about the value of getting their \u201cground game\u201d in good form and it resonated loudly when Phil Mickelson in 2013 did something he never had come close to doing \u2013 he won the Claret Jug, at Muirfield, no less. The fact that he won the Scottish Open one week earlier at Castle Stuart was duly noted by just about everyone in golf circles.<\/p>\n

Young Australian Min Woo Lee did not repeat Mickelson\u2019s feat in 2021, but his stunning win at the Renaissance Club did more than establish him as an elite talent on the rise. It also provided the momentum to finish T-21 at the Open Championship one week later and to string together a series of top 10s at the end of 2022 that thrust Lee inside the world\u2019s top 50.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat Scottish Open win was huge,\u201d he said. \u201cIt meant a lot to my career and when I go back there and see my face up on the billboards with so many big names, it definitely makes an impression on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

What pushed Brandon Stone into global prominence was his win in the 2018 Scottish Open. It ignited stories of a glorious run for his fellow South Africans in 2000-05 when Ernie Els won twice and both Retief Goosen and Tim Clark claimed victories in the Scottish Open.<\/p>\n

For sure, the world\u2019s greatest golf championships have one thing in common \u2013 they attract a global field and produce international winners. In between Americans wins by Fowler in 2015 and Schauffele in 2022, there were six Scottish Open champions from six different countries \u2013 Alex Noren (Sweden), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (Spain), Stone (South Africa), Bernd Wiesberger (Austria), Aaron Rai (Scotland), and Lee (Australia) \u2013 and that overflows with rich flavor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese two weeks are massive for my game and my career,\u201d said one of Scotland\u2019s elite young talents, Robert MacIntyre. \u201cIt\u2019s great for everyone and pushes everything forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

This will be the fifth straight year that the Renaissance Club has hosted the Genesis Scottish Open and the fact that playoffs have been required on three occasions and only one stroke separated Schauffele and runner-up Kurt Kitayama last year offers testimony to the quality of the golf course.<\/p>\n

When he won the Scottish Open in 2015, Fowler gushed about his accomplishment. \u201cWinning on a links golf course in the Home of Golf, Scotland, it is a special week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Having recently returned to the winner\u2019s circle for the first time since 2019, Fowler is in great form and his rabid group of fans will be out in force. But you could say that about a dozen or so names in the field, a true testament to the quality of this year\u2019s Genesis Scottish Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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