2022 Scottish Open Betting Preview

Jul 06, 2022

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Sitting adjacent to Muirfield on 300 acres along the famous golfing coastline off the Firth of Forth in North Berwick, Scotland is The Renaissance Club. Completed in 2008 by famed architect Tom Doak, it was designed from the swath of an ancient pine forest. With only four holes by the ocean, undulating terrain, thick rough off the fairway and numerous wooded areas, The Renaissance Club is not a traditional links setup. It does have links qualities with firm turf and deep pot bunkers, though, and its greens encourage the use of the ground game.

Over the past decade, the club has become a mainstay in the Scottish golfing scene, having hosted three other Scottish Opens along with professional women’s and senior events. This year’s Scottish Open makes its debut as a co-sanctioned event between the PGA Tour and DP World Tour. With many of the PGA players typically viewing this as a warm-up event for The Open Championship, each of the past six winners, and 22 of the past 24 have been a European Tour regular.

Other than being on the Scottish coast and the “links-y” aesthetics that are part of The Renaissance Club, this event hasn’t proven to be the most challenging of Open Championship warm-ups. With calmer winds in play, the tournaments here in 2019 and 2021 averaged 1.87 strokes under par.