2025 Scottish Open Picks, Course Preview, ISCO, LIV & PME POKER OPEN
QUICK BETS
Hovland +3300
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen +9000 (8 Places)
Kristoffer Reitan +20000 (8 Places)
LIV Andalucía
Puig +2200
Burmester +4500
ISCO CHAMPIONSHIP
Suber +7500
*Will wait closer to start to get a better sense of the weather/Tee times
TUESDAY NIGHT - PAT MAYO OPEN POKER QUALIFIER
Yes, I have a private qualifier for a Coolbet Poker event in Tallinn, Estonia in August. Not only that, if you take me out of the qualifier, you get a bounty on my head! If you come top 2 in the PME qualifier you’ll advance to the final Q to win…
• €550 (~$860 CAD) buy-in to Coolbet Open Main Event
• 5 nights in a double room at Nordic Hotel Forum including breakfast (usually booked for August 12th-17th)
• €300 in tournament credit during the Coolbet Open
• Dinner buffet
This year will be the eighth edition of the Coolbet Open and we are expecting more than 500 players at the Chesterfield Poker Club and Nordic Hotel Forum.
The Main Event is a €550 buy-in tournament with unlimited re-entries until the end of the first level of day 2. The prize pool is expected to surpass €250,000. There are also more than 30 side events with fun games such as Mystery Bounties, Omaha, 8-Game, HORSE and OFC Pineapple.
If you’re Canadian (outside Ontario), you can play. And I can tell you, I’m awful, so I’m dead money in my Q. Tell some friends and sign up to Coolbet NOW using code: SPORTS200.
Enter the Coolbet poker site, click on “Tournaments” and search “Pat Mayo” and you’ll find it!
I dare you to come take my money.
ENTER THE PME POKER QUALIFIER FOR TUES JULY 8TH AT 8PM ET
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2025 Genesis Scottish Open
Field: 156 Players
Top 65 & Ties Make The Cut
First Tee: Thursday, July 10
Defending Champion: Robert MacIntyre
Spieth not playing with a neck injury.
Hovland and Conners returning from injury.
KEY STATS
Strokes Gained: Approach
Opportunities Gained
Strokes Gained: Off The Tee
Par 3s Gained 200-225 Yards
COURSE
Course: Renaissance Club
Yards: 7,237
Par: 70
Greens: Fescue
Green Size: 7,000 sq. Feet
Bunkers: 83
Holes with Water Hazards: Zero
TDRL Notes
Accuracy super low; GIR really high
Fairway bunkers the biggest defense
81% GIR Fairway (78% AVERAGE)
56% Rough (52% Average)
Only 18% Bunkers (49% Average)
Par 3's (5): Average distance - 187 yards
-These are 5 of the 6 most oft-par’d holes on the course (two carrying a par rate north of 70%)
-MacIntyre played the Par 3’s even over the weekend (8 par’s, 1 bogey, and 1 birdie)
Par 4's (10): Average distance - 454 yards
-3 of the 5 toughest holes on the course are front-9 Par 4’s (Holes 2-7-8)
-Hole 18 (483-yard Par 4, the toughest on the course) was the only hole MacIntyre bogey’d twice last season on his way to the win (he did birdie it on Sunday)
Par 5's (3): Average distance - 590 yards
-The 3 easiest holes on the course, , all of which carry a birdie rate of at least 35% and a single digit bogey rate
-MacIntyre played the final Par 5 (Hole #16) at -4 for the week
DFS Streak
This course is designed to limit momentum and that means you don’t have to waste too much mental power in this regard. The toughest three-hole stretch on the course is 7-8-9 (all of them have a bogey rate that is more than double the under par rate) and the next most difficult is 18-1-2 (Holes 18 and 2 are the two toughest on property).
It’s very possible to build birdie streaks on both sides of this course, but they rarely happen when bridging the nine’s, so don’t look this direction for a Showdown tiebreaker.
PAST WINNERS
PGA DP World Tour Co-Sanctioned
2024: Robert MacIntyre (-18 1 clear of Adam Scott)
2023: Rory McIlroy (-15, 1 clear of Robert MacIntyre)
2022: Xander Schauffele (-7, 1 stroke clear of Kurt Kitayama)
DP World Tour Event (With some PGA Players)
2021: Min Woo Lee (-18, playoff win over Matt Fitzpatrick and Thomas Detry)
2020: Aaron Rai -11
2019: Bernd Wiesberger -21
We haven’t seen a multi-stroke winner since this event moved to the Renaissance Club in 2019 (four years as a solo Euro event before becoming a PGA event in 2022)
WINNER PROFILE
2024: Robert MacIntyre (+4000)
-Results for MacIntyre were spotty entering play, but he did gain OTT in his four lead-in events (and in seven of eight prior to the win)
-Sahith Theegala (T-4) was the only top-14 finisher to lose strokes on the Par 3’s
2023: Rory McIlroy (+900)
-Was in God mode (five straight top-10’s entering play) and had gained north of 5 strokes on approach in consecutive events prior
-McIlroy ($10,900) won and was the top scoring fantasy option … the next three top fantasy assets cost under $7,500
2022: Xander Schauffele (+1800)
-Won at Travelers in his event prior (five straight top-20’s gave him elite form). The approach game was especially strong: 4+ strokes gained in four measured events prior
-Patrick Cantlay was the only top-9 finisher to lose strokes putting from 25+ feet away
2021: Min Woo Lee (-18, playoff win over Thomas Detry and Matt Fitzpatrick)
- He had one top-20 finish for the season prior to this win ... it came at the Irish Open, his lead-in event
2020: Aaron Rai (-11, playoff win over Tommy Fleetwood)
2019: Bernd Wiesberger (-22, playoff win over Benjamin Herbert)
--> Both Rory ('23) and Xander ('22) finished top 15 at The Open the week following this Win. Bobby Mac did not. He was T50 at the 2024 Open.
Top of the board at the Scottish Open in 2024 and where they finished at The Open
WIN Bobby Mac (T50 at The Open)
2nd T2 Adam Scott (T10 at The Open)
3rd Langasque (WD)
T4 Sungjae (T7 at The Open)
T4 Rory (MC)
T4 Morikawa (T16 at The Open)
T4 Theegala (MC at The Open)
T4 Aberg (MC at The Open)
T4 Rai (T75 at The Open)
T10 Noren (T13 at The Open)
Top of the board at the Scottish Open in 2023 and where they finished at The Open
Rory (1st followed by T-6)
MacIntyre (2nd followed by T-71)
David Lingmerth (T-3 followed by T-68)
Scottie Scheffler (T-3 followed by T-23)
Benny An (T-3 followed by T-23)
Nicolai Hojgaard (T-6 followed by T-23)
Tyrell Hatton (T-6 followed by T-20)
JT Poston (T-6 followed by T-41)
Tommy Fleetwood (T-6 followed by T-10)
Tom Kim (T-6 followed by T-2)
FIRST ROUND
2024
62 – Justin Thomas (his best round of the week … by 9 strokes)
63 – Sungjae Im (finished T-4 for the week, went 67-67-69 the rest of the way)
2023
61 – Byeong-Hun An (his best round of the week … by 8 strokes)
63 – Davis Riley (10 shots worse on Friday, the first of two 73’s for the week)
2022
61 – Cameron Tringale (his only round in the 60’s for the week)
64 –Gary Woodland (his only round better than 72 for the week)
WEATHER
As you may have noticed from the winning scores, the conditions are the major factor in how low the field can go. Yes, it’s early and certain open to change, but the conditions seem rather benign, outside of Thursday, for a golf outing in Scotland. Bookmark the tower and keep checking back as these things change massively over the next couple days.
WIND TOWER: Dirleton
ISCO CHAMPIONSHIP
NEW COURSE ALERT!!!!
Course: Hurstbourne CC
Yards: 7,056
Par: 70
Greens: Bentgrass
Green Size: 4,750 sq. Feet
Bunkers: 68
Holes with Water Hazards: 6
Average Fairway Widths: 25-30 yards
NOTES
The nines are switched for the ISCO Championship.
Renovation included adjusting tees, bunkers and green slopes.
Winter was harsh with prolonged cold temperatures causing some winter kill in the fairways. Damaged areas were repaired, but unseasonably cool and wet spring compounded the issue be delaying the recovery and growth of the warm-season grasses on fairways and tees.
Expected high temperatures are putting stresses on cool season grasses on greens, approaches and rough.
Originally designed by Chick Adams in the 1960s, the course was renovated in 2005 highlighted by a major bunker improvement program. For the PGA TOUR, they’ve switched the nines versus the normal routing so as to not finish on a par 3.
This course switch seems to have been overlooked by most this week, as we get away from the BOMBS away venue to a tight, short, parkland track. Hurstbourne is one of the five shortest courses of the year and features the third smallest green complexes.
These are the players averaging the most total strokes on Par 70s measuring under 7,200 yards (Past 12 Rounds). However, since this is a field filled with DP World Tour players and some KFT guys, if you have an inclination on a particular player’s skill set that will mesh well with this course, FIRE AWAY
