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2022 Genesis Scottish Open odds, field notes, best bets and picks

With two top 10s in the last three years, can Justin Thomas finally win at the Renaissance?

A week before the final major of 2022, a major championship-type field has traveled to the Renaissance Club for the Genesis Scottish Open.

Fourteen of the world’s top 15 players are expected to tee it up Thursday, with the lone missing name being No. 3 Rory McIlroy (who played in this week’s JP McManus Pro-Am at Adare Manor).

Last year’s champion Min Woo Lee, who made the Scottish Open his second DP World Tour win, tied for 27th in his last PGA Tour start (U.S. Open at The Country Club).

This event is co-sanctioned by the Tour and DP World Tour, so LIV Golf members have been denied entry into the event — for most, anyway. Ian Poulter, Adrian Otaegui, and Justin Harding had their DP World Tour suspensions temporarily stayed Monday, which could allow them to play in the event.

Golf course

Renaissance Club | Par 70 | 7,237

The par-3 17th hole is a welcome respite before the difficult 18th hole that plays at 485 yards and likely into the prevailing wind at Renaissance Club.

Key statistics

  • SG: Tee to green
  • Par 3 efficiency 200-225 yards

Data Golf Information

Course Fit (compares golf courses based on the degree to which different golfer attributes — such as driving distance — to predict who performs well at each course – DataGolf): 1. TPC Louisiana, 2. Olympia Fields CC, 3. Caves Valley Golf Club

Trending: 1. Xander Schauffele (last three starts: T-18, T-14, 1), 2. Will Zalatoris (MC, T-5, T-2), 3. Matthew Fitzpatrick (MC, T-10, 1)

Percent chance to win (based on course history, fit, trending, etc.): 1. Jon Rahm (7.7 percent), 2. Scottie Scheffler (7 percent), 3. Justin Thomas (5.8 percent)

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‘There’s a lot of guys that are hypocrites’: Billy Horschel rips into LIV Golf Series defectors

“I don’t have any ill will for anyone going to play the LIV tour. I have ill will towards the comments.”

The battle between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf rages on, and most of the players on the PGA Tour aren’t too happy with those who have made the move to the Saudi-backed, Greg Norman-led, blood-money-funded league.

Add Billy Horschel to that list.

During his press conference prior to this week’s Genesis Scottish Open, an event co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and DP World Tour that isn’t allowing LIV players to tee it up at the Renaissance Club, Horschel ripped into the defectors.

“There’s a lot of guys that are hypocrites, that aren’t telling the truth, that are lying about some things, that I, just, I can’t stand to sit here anymore and be diplomatic about it, as I have been in the past.

“I don’t fault anyone for going to play the LIV tour. I don’t have any ill will for anyone going to play the LIV tour. I have ill will towards the comments that they’ve made.”

Watch his full comments here:

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DP World Tour suspensions temporarily stayed for Ian Poulter, Adrian Otaegui, Justin Harding, which could allow them to play in 2022 Genesis Scottish Open

LIV Series golfers Ian Poulter, Adrian Otaegui and Justin Harding might play in the Genesis Scottish Open after all.

LIV Golf Series golfers Ian Poulter, Adrian Otaegui and Justin Harding just might play in the 2022 Genesis Scottish Open after all.

The three golfers are members of the upstart LIV circuit and subsequently were suspended by the DP World Tour. However, on Monday, DP Tour officials sent an update that read in part: “following a hearing Monday before HHJ Sycamore CBE, appointed by Sport Resolutions (UK), suspensions imposed on Ian Poulter, Adrian Otaegui and Justin Harding have been temporarily stayed, pending determination of their substantive appeals by an Appeal Panel in due course.”

The Scottish Open is being co-sanctioned for the first time by the DP World Tour as well as the PGA Tour, a move that a part of a bigger strategic alliance between the two bodies. Both tours have banned players for joining the LIV circuit.

Keith Pelley, the CEO of the DP World Tour, was participating in the first day of the JP McManus Pro-Am in Ireland on Monday. When reached for comment, he said: “Out of respect for JP and Noreen McManus, their wonderful Pro-Am and the outstanding fundraising they undertake on behalf of charities in the west of Ireland, I will not be giving a detailed response on this matter right now.”

He expressed disappointment in the outcome of the hearing and said his tour will abide by the decision but also noted that “this is only a stay of the sanctions imposed, pending the hearing of the players’ appeal as to whether those sanctions were appropriate.”

Pelley went on to concede that the field for the Scottish Open will be updated, if necessary.

“The make-up of the field for the Genesis Scottish Open will be advised in due course, but based on this decision the field size will increase beyond 156.

“We will make further comment on this in due course, but not during our time at Adare Manor.”

The JP McManus Pro-Am concludes Tuesday at Adare Manor in Limerick, Ireland. The Scottish Open is set to begin Thursday morning.

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Five things to know about the 2022 Genesis Scottish Open

To paraphrase Ron Burgundy, the Scottish Open is kind of a big deal.

To paraphrase Ron Burgundy, the Scottish Open is kind of a big deal.

In 2022, the tournament has a new sponsor, a new, elevated status, a monster field and a $1,440,000 first-place prize.

Formerly the abrdn Scottish Open, Genesis has taken over as title sponsor. The event, at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland, is back as host site. For the first time, it’s co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour.

The field will be a split between members of both tours and competitors will earn FedEx Cup points — 500 to the winner — a first for a DP World Tour event.

What else do you need to know about the tournament?

Despite ban of LIV Golf players, start-studded Genesis Scottish Open is loaded with 14 of top 15 in the world

Fourteen of the top 15 players in the world and all four reigning major champions will tee it up.

Some of the game’s biggest names and best players have been banned from playing the Genesis Scottish Open next week at the Renaissance Club in East Lothian, Scotland, among them Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka, Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Patrick Reed.

The Scottish Open field is still loaded.

In fact, it’s one of the strongest non-major fields in years.

With the tournament co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, players who bolted for LIV Golf, the rival league funded by Saudi Arabia, were suspended indefinitely, barred from the tournament and/or fined for violating tour policies.

But the tournament – coming the week ahead of the 150th playing of the Open Championship occurring on the Old Course in St. Andrews – has lured 14 of the top 15 players in the world and all four reigning major champions. The lone exception among the top 15? Recent RBC Canadian Open winner, world No. 3 and four-time major winner Rory McIlroy.

World No. 1 and Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, who has won four times this year, is one of the headliners. As are reigning PGA Championship winner and No. 5 Justin Thomas, reigning U.S. Open champion and No. 10 Matt Fitzpatrick, and reigning Open Championship winner and No. 4 Collin Morikawa.

Other top 15 players in the star-studded field include No. 2 and 2021 U.S. Open champion Jon Rahm; Players champion and No. 6 Cameron Smith; reigning FedEx Cup champion and No. 7 Patrick Cantlay; No. 8 Viktor Hovland; No. 9 Sam Burns; recent Travelers Championship winner and No. 11 Xander Schauffele; No. 12 and three-time major winner Jordan Spieth; No. 13 Will Zalatoris, who has finished runner-up in the past two majors; 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama; and Billy Horschel.

Other top players including Tommy Fleetwood, Max Homa, Sungjae Im, Joaquin Niemann, Tyrrell Hatton, Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler are in the field.

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DP World Tour sanctions LIV pros, including ban from Genesis Scottish Open

“Their actions are not fair to the majority of our membership and undermine the Tour.”

The Genesis Scottish Open will be missing several big names from the field in two weeks.

On Friday, DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley banned golfers who competed in the LIV Golf Series from three tournaments, including the Scottish Open, which is being co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour for the first time as part of a “strategic alliance” between the two circuits.

“Every action anyone takes in life comes with a consequence and it is no different in professional sport, especially if a person chooses to break the rules,” Pelley said. “That is what has occurred here with several of our members.”

The tour announced any players who took part in the inaugural LIV event would be ineligible from competing in the Scottish as well as the Barbasol Championship and Barracuda Championship, which are PGA Tour opposite-field events that are being co-sanctioned with the DP World Tour for the first time. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan previously suspended 17 players who violated Tour rules by competing in the LIV debut event. Pelley also announced that players would be fined 100,000 pounds, or approximately $123,000, and noted that participation in further conflicting tournaments without the required release “may incur further sanctions.”

“Many members I have spoken to in recent weeks expressed the viewpoint that those who have chosen this route have not only disrespected them and our Tour, but also the meritocratic ecosystem of professional golf that has been the bedrock of our game for the past half a century and which will also be the foundation upon which we build the next 50 years,” Pelley said. “Their actions are not fair to the majority of our membership and undermine the Tour, which is why we are taking the action we have announced today.”

Pelley’s announcement was released while several European Tour stars who have defected from the PGA Tour to the Saudi-backed rival league were competing at this week’s BMW International Open, including Sergio Garcia, Martin Kaymer, and South African Louis Oosthuizen. Allowing LIV players to compete there citing different tour regulations from the PGA Tour made it appear that the DP World Tour might be a safe haven for pros banned indefinitely from the PGA Tour to play beyond LIV Golf’s eight events this season. But Pelley has closed that loophole at least for co-sanctioned events with the PGA Tour, for now.

Four-time major winner Brooks Koepka, who signed with LIV Golf this week, had been announced as part of the Scottish Open field, at The Renaissance Club from July 7-10. It has long been a popular warmup for the British Open the following week. The field is expected to include world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, reigning British Open champion Collin Morikawa, reigning PGA champion Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm.

Sky Sports News reported that fines for DP World Tour players are set to double for those playing in each future conflicting event. It also noted that LIV “will not pay the fines, only possible legal fees players incur for appealing the sanctions.”

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