Scottish Open Remains Change Tempa, right now with one of the hardest fields

Rory McIlroy and his associate Vet Justin Rose followed each other from London to the north of Berwick on Tuesday, before this week Genesis Scottish opened in the Renaissance Club.

Upon arrival in the coastal town in East Lothi, the feeling was tangible.

“There is a detachment of the week, without week, when you play here, when you play PGA Tour Golf for such a year,” McIlroy said, which was the last two weeks of the new home in Wentwort. Oh, and he also I have a hairstyle.

It is a relaxed week in many respects, McIlroy says, on the site in the world of accommodation to the benign area and untouched practice in even evening circles near GEMs near the Golf club North Berwick.

“Logistic,” McIlroy said, “How Golf Tournaments Go, this could not be easier.”

This, however, does not say that the Scottish occasional exhibition doubled as an open championship.

Players will surely refine their games in front of the next week opened in the Royal Portrussian, but Scotland, especially, especially three years ago, and the DP, and one of the best nationals opens anywhere in the calendar.

This week’s Scottish, with eight of the 10 best in the world that is determined for the competition, has a field rating only over 404 points. It is the second strongest non-main field of the year behind just a player, and that is stronger than this year’s masters.

“There is definitely a certain aspect of preparation for the next week, but I definitely don’t watch the next week,” said the world 1 Scottie Scheffler, after skipping last year’s edition to spend more time with his wife, Meredith and Newborn, Bennett. “This is an important tournament for me, and this is the tournament I want to play well.”

Bob Macintyre would agree – and exponentially so exponentially. Oban Native, who last year last year, and the McIlroy and the rest of the terrain for his first Scottish title, this tournament called the most important outside of love.

“I won him once,” Macintyr said, “but every time I come in, I want to win again.”

Macintyre, like McIlroy, skipped a classic rocket and John Deere Classic to move home over the pond. He played 10 out of 11 weeks starting from the master when he wrapped the T-17 finishes to passengers, so he was right on pairs.

“If you looked at the locker room on Sunday, everyone was dying to go home because it was just a long stretch,” Macintyr said, who also finished the runner in JJ Spaun on American. “I was out for me … I just answered empty. It’s such a big golf tournament; it’s hard for that now, on the way. It’s just stuck because if you’re looking for a week, you go back.”

Macintyre’s dream didn’t last too long. In a few days leading to Scotland, Macintyr spent some time exercising and playing on Machiranish, a famous course located at the top of the Scottish Peninsula Kintyra, and then the Royal Throne, the host last year open. Much of his enthusiasm, he was greeted by 20 mph winds and solid conditions.

“It was only to feel that, that sea air, heavy wind, hitting the ball again and just your eye what you saw,” Macintyr said. “While when I play in America, I hit the ball up, land, normally on the number, stops. It’s just a completely different style of golf.”

Macintyr must be considered a favorite in his title defense. So, and Minroy, who has a victory and T-4 in two starting in an attempt, because the event became disseminated. Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa, two top-5 players with the stronger clarets to their names, two players are expected to be advocated.

Then you have a spaon, which probably had the most unusual month despite not playing from passengers. The US Open Champion has countless media liabilities and celebration functions from overcoming in Oakmont four weeks ago. He recently painted him at the bar in Scottsdale, the divisions of the drink from the trophy with seemingly everyone in place. Things have slowed down a little since then, but not much.

“I’m just trying to drown everything yet,” Spaun said, “I’m trying to don’t let it be like a victorious victory mentality, but he still feels like that.”

Spaun just just returned his rhythm with his golf games. In a “good place,” he says, although he spent the last few nights from his Saturday’s arrival that acclimated on time change and shaking his jetlag. It’s something he didn’t have to do much, because this is his second time playing golf carts, the first to come to this event in 2022. Years. He tied up in 59. That week.

Many since then changed for Spaun and for this tournament.

At the same time, however, a beautiful change of tempo remains.