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The Scottish Open will look a little different this year.
The ever-popular tournament consistently has one of the best fields of the season and serves as the perfect warm-up to The Open Championship.
The Renaissance Club is the centre-piece of Scotland’s East Lothian golf coast and has been the permanent home of the Scottish Open since 2019.
Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele and Robert MacIntyre are among the players to win at Renaissance in recent years and defending Open champion Scottie Scheffler will be eyeing the Scottish title this week.
The Renaissance Club is located between the world-famous Muirfield and North Berwick golf clubs and is of major quality itself.
First opened in 2008, it may not have the history of other Open venues but is a firm favourite on tour.
The course will play to a par 70 this week with a new maximum yardage of 7,282 yards.
And the players will have to adapt to Renaissance being re-routed for the first time this year.
The change has been made in the hope of ‘creating a more compelling closing stretch for both players and spectators’.
That has seen the two nines flipped with only a handful of holes keeping their original place in the routing.
The new opening hole is now the old 10th.
It is a 594-yard par 5 and should give the players the chance to claim an early birdie.
The tweaked layout will then run to the old 16th hole before switching back to the original 8th and 9th.
The new tenth hole will then be the old 1st, a tough 464-yard par 4.
The back nine will play through to the former 7th hole before returning to the traditional two closing holes.
It means the par 3 6th – one of the best short holes in all of Scotland – will now play as the 15th and has added seating to become a stadium hole.
The players have so far welcomed the changes, with Viktor Hovland saying: “I do really like the routing change this year.
“I mean, obviously we play the same golf course, but at the same time, I do think it adds a little bit of excitement.
“I think having, short par four kind of drivable and then 15, the short par three shortly thereafter, it makes sense to have those on the back nine kind of leading up to the finish of this great event. And I think it just makes for a better finish.”
Ryder Cup team-mate Jon Rahm added: “I also think it’s quite a thrilling finish.
“Obviously you don’t have the par five on 16 that gave quite a bit away, but with the right wind you have a possible reachable par four, a very tricky short par three, a long par four and then 17 and 18.
“I still think it gives it a good variety and a very exciting finish. I think it could be a really good change.
“It’s just getting used to when you’re walking off going 16, to, I guess it will be seven now, going to eight, that’s the main thing for us, but I think it’s going to become a better event for that, just for the back nine on Saturday, Sunday.
“It’s going to be more electric.”
talkSPORT will have live coverage from East Lothian throughout the week.
The Scottish Open will look a little different this year.
The ever-popular tournament consistently has one of the best fields of the season and serves as the perfect warm-up to The Open Championship.
The Renaissance Club is the centre-piece of Scotland’s East Lothian golf coast and has been the permanent home of the Scottish Open since 2019.
Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele and Robert MacIntyre are among the players to win at Renaissance in recent years and defending Open champion Scottie Scheffler will be eyeing the Scottish title this week.
The Renaissance Club is located between the world-famous Muirfield and North Berwick golf clubs and is of major quality itself.
First opened in 2008, it may not have the history of other Open venues but is a firm favourite on tour.
The course will play to a par 70 this week with a new maximum yardage of 7,282 yards.
And the players will have to adapt to Renaissance being re-routed for the first time this year.
The change has been made in the hope of ‘creating a more compelling closing stretch for both players and spectators’.
That has seen the two nines flipped with only a handful of holes keeping their original place in the routing.
The new opening hole is now the old 10th.
It is a 594-yard par 5 and should give the players the chance to claim an early birdie.
The tweaked layout will then run to the old 16th hole before switching back to the original 8th and 9th.
The new tenth hole will then be the old 1st, a tough 464-yard par 4.
The back nine will play through to the former 7th hole before returning to the traditional two closing holes.
It means the par 3 6th – one of the best short holes in all of Scotland – will now play as the 15th and has added seating to become a stadium hole.
The players have so far welcomed the changes, with Viktor Hovland saying: “I do really like the routing change this year.
“I mean, obviously we play the same golf course, but at the same time, I do think it adds a little bit of excitement.
“I think having, short par four kind of drivable and then 15, the short par three shortly thereafter, it makes sense to have those on the back nine kind of leading up to the finish of this great event. And I think it just makes for a better finish.”
Ryder Cup team-mate Jon Rahm added: “I also think it’s quite a thrilling finish.
“Obviously you don’t have the par five on 16 that gave quite a bit away, but with the right wind you have a possible reachable par four, a very tricky short par three, a long par four and then 17 and 18.
“I still think it gives it a good variety and a very exciting finish. I think it could be a really good change.
“It’s just getting used to when you’re walking off going 16, to, I guess it will be seven now, going to eight, that’s the main thing for us, but I think it’s going to become a better event for that, just for the back nine on Saturday, Sunday.
“It’s going to be more electric.”
talkSPORT will have live coverage from East Lothian throughout the week.
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| 📰 Publicación: | talksport.com |
| ✍️ Autor: | Marc Williams |
| 📅 Fecha Original: | 2026-07-09 07:52:00 |
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