Fourteen of the highest 15 gamers on this planet. All 4 reigning Main champions. The defending Gamers champion. The reigning DP World Tour and PGA TOUR No.1s and the present season factors race pace-setters from each side of the Atlantic. An $8 million purse and elevated Rolex Sequence standing. A world rankings bonanza as a consequence of all the above.
The Genesis Scottish Open’s debut as the primary occasion on European soil co-sanctioned by the PGA TOUR has delivered on its remit even earlier than a ball has been struck at The Renaissance Membership this week.
Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, each the World Quantity One and FedEx Cup chief after a four-win 2022, headlines the strongest non-Main energy of area event within the 50 yr historical past of the DP World Tour beginning Thursday.
World quantity 4 and PGA Championship titleholder Justin Thomas, freshly-minted U.S. Open champion and World Quantity Ten Matt Fitzpatrick and fifth-ranked Collin Morikawa, the reigning DP World Tour Rankings champion who will defend the Claret Jug at subsequent week’s a hundred and fiftieth Open Championship at St Andrews, spherical out the “Main” points of interest en-route to the famed Tom Doak-design in North Berwick.
Aussie Cameron Smith, who received The Gamers Championship, two-time DP World Tour Championship winner and 2021 U.S.Open champion Jon Rahm, FedEx Cup titleholder Patrick Cantlay, Mayakoba champion Viktor Hovland and Sam Burns, a two-time winner this season, spherical out these within the high ten.
Australia’s Min Woo Lee is again to defend the title he snared with a birdie on the first additional gap at Renaissance final yr to see off Fitzpatrick and Thomas Detry in a play-off. Lee is certainly one of 9 former returning title holders relationship again to 2020: Lee (2021), Aaron Rai (2020), Brandon Stone (2018), Rafa Cabrera Bello (2017), Alex Noren (2016), Rickie Fowler (2015), Justin Rose (2014), Luke Donald (2011) and Edoardo Molinari (2010).
Rahm and Thomas, each former world quantity ones, are intimately acquainted with Renaissance after ending seventh and T8 12 months in the past whereas Poland’s Adrian Meronk, Kiwi Ryan Fox and China’s Haotong Li all convey eye-catching type to Scotland, Meronk because the winner of final week’s Horizon Irish Open.
Lefty Robert Macintyre is the highest-ranked Scot at 102 within the OWGR and completely able to changing into the primary home-grown participant to win since Colin Montgomerie at Loch Lomond in 1999.
There’s additionally 8000 DP World Tour Rankings in partnership with Rolex factors on the road which is bound to play a key function within the ultimate make-up of the highest 50 gamers who will contest the season-ending DP World Tour Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates from November 17-20. The factors allocation for Rolex Sequence occasions is third solely to the Majors (10,000 factors) and the DP World Tour Championship (12,000 factors).
Wherever you look, storylines abound in a area made up of 75 PGA Tour, 75 DP World Tour, three Korean PGA Tour and three invitees. It’s early proof that the DP World Tour’s simply upgraded strategic alliance with the PGA TOUR is working as designed.
This week’s Barbasol Championship in Kentucky and the Barracuda Championship in California, which will likely be performed concurrently with The Open Championship, are different occasions co-sanctioned by each Excursions.
