All You Need To Know About 2025 Scottish Open

2025 Scottish Open

Venue: Renaissance Club, East Lothian Dates: 10-13 July

Coverage: Follow unrecorded matter sum of each 4 rounds connected nan BBC Sport website and app; watch Saturday and Sunday highlights connected BBC iPlayer astatine 21:00 BST

The guttural roar that marked Bob MacIntyre's affectional Scottish Open triumph 12 months agone has conscionable astir dissipated – truthful who will beryllium nan large sound this time?

Home leader MacIntyre returns to nan Renaissance Club to take sides nan cherished title – "the 1 I wanted" – aft delivering a superb decorativeness to separator retired Adam Scott by a changeable and go nan tournament's first Scottish victor successful 25 years.

MacIntyre will ne'er tyre of watching his winning 22ft birdie putt "over and complete again" and is adamant past year's triumph hasn't diluted his determination to assistance nan trophy again.

"Again, I'm coming present to triumph nan Scottish Open," says nan 28-year-old connected nan eve of nan 2025 edition. "It's nan biggest play tourney extracurricular of nan awesome championships for me.

"I want to support this trophy each twelvemonth until I extremity playing. I dream if I don't triumph it, a Scottish subordinate wins it. It's conscionable a special, typical play tourney pinch an unbelievable field."

The Oban left-hander has immoderate superior shape connected this East Lothian layout – he was pipped to glory by Rory McIlroy's birdie-birdie finale successful 2023 – and is buoyed by his champion awesome performance, a runners-up spot astatine last month's US Open.

Not that he'll person it each his ain way…

You'd beryllium difficult pressed to find a amended section extracurricular a major.

And really astir Scottie Scheffler, MacIntyre and Adam Scott for a superstar grouping for nan first 2 rounds? Expect immense crowds to travel this trio.

World number 1 Scheffler heads a formed database packed pinch superstar talent and featuring 8 of nan apical 10 successful nan rankings.

Chief among them is McIlroy, 3 months connected from memorably completing nan profession Grand Slam pinch a dramatic Masters triumph.

The Northern Irishman tees it up alongside chap erstwhile victor and existent Open champion Xander Schauffele, positive Ryder Cup team-mate Viktor Hovland connected Thursday and Friday.

New US Open champion JJ Spaun will bid to amended connected his only erstwhile Scottish Open quality – finishing six complete successful 2022 – while England's Tommy Fleetwood was runner-up present successful 2020 and has a happy knack of contending for nan title.

Can Fleetwood banish nan heartbreak of his caller Travelers Championship adjacent miss arsenic he pursues a first PGA Tour title?

And arsenic nan title for Ryder Cup qualification ticks towards adjacent month's deadline, skipper Luke Donald will equilibrium playing duties successful East Lothian pinch keeping a keen oculus connected European hopefuls.

Prestige, prize money and links believe are each cardinal factors.

Now successful its 4th twelvemonth arsenic a PGA Tour and DP World Tour co-sanctioned event, nan Scottish Open doesn't deficiency financial heft, boasting a full purse of of $9m (£6.6m) – astir $1.5m (£1.1m) of which goes to nan winner.

Its pulling powerfulness is further enhanced by its slot successful nan almanac nan week earlier The Open, which this twelvemonth takes spot astatine Royal Portrush successful Northern Ireland.

Players converge connected nan Scottish Open for captious links mentation and it paid disconnected handsomely past twelvemonth for Schauffele, who followed his tied 15th-place decorativeness by lifting nan Claret Jug 7 days later astatine Royal Troon.

Little wonderment that nan Scottish Open has "become a staple" successful nan 31-year-old American's schedule.

"I wish I could person travel complete present and played earlier successful nan twelvemonth to beryllium honest, conscionable from a intelligence standpoint," Schauffele says.

"Something astir playing complete present relaxes maine a small bit. Something astir being here, you commencement taking your hands disconnected nan instrumentality - and that's really I played my best."

The par-70 Renaissance Club, opened successful 2007, has staged nan Scottish Open for nan past six years.

The people grounds is 61 and was equalled past twelvemonth by Richard Mansell successful nan last round, helping nan Englishman container a spot successful The Open.

Austria's Bernd Wiesberger intelligibly likes this way - he shares nan 18-hole milestone (with Mansell and Byeong Hun An) and nan 72-hole grounds of 262 (with reigning champ MacIntyre).

Links play ever provides a fascinating trial and nan world's champion could beryllium confronted by baked fairways this week arsenic nan notoriously erratic Scottish summertime delivers a invited sunny spell.

Temperatures of astir 22C are forecast, pinch nan breeze ranging from gentle to moderate.

This is nan last arena of The Open qualifying series, meaning 3 places astatine Royal Portrush are up for grabs for those not already exempt.

Among nan hopefuls is 1 of nan six-strong Scottish contingent, Connor Syme, caller from his first DP World Tour title, a "monkey-off-the-back" achievement.

Syme made his Open debut astatine Royal Portrush successful 2019 and craves a return aft missing retired connected Royal Troon by 1 changeable past year.

"It would beryllium awesome to spell back," says nan Scot. "This is evidently specified a monolithic tourney and that's nan dangling carrot too.

"Hopefully I tin play good capable to tick disconnected a batch of things."