{"id":3631,"date":"2022-07-06T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/?post_type=article&p=3631"},"modified":"2022-07-06T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:13:16","slug":"2022-scottish-open-betting-picks-preview","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/article\/2022-scottish-open-betting-picks-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Scottish Open Betting Picks Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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 and its greens encourage the use of the ground game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s and senior events. This year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than being on the Scottish coast and the \u201clinksy\u201d aesthetics that are part of The Renaissance Club, this event hasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Field<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With 14 of the top 15 players in the world making the trip to North Berwick, the field for this year\u2019s Scottish Open will be one of the strongest non-major events ever. The number of PGA Tour players and DP World Tour players is evenly split with 75 players in attendance from each. Motivation for many will be high as three spots in the Open Championship are up for grabs to the top three finishers who have not already qualified provided they finish in the top 10 at Renaissance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than Rory McIlroy and the suspended LIV golfers, every other upper-tier golfer will play. The headliners include world number one Scottie Scheffler, reigning FedExCup champion Patrick Cantlay, major winners Justin Thomas and Matt Fitzpatrick, and other standouts such as Jon Rahm, Xander Schauffele, Cameron Smith, Sam Burns, and Hideki Matsuyama. Also returning is last year’s winner, Min Woo Lee, who defeated Fitzpatrick and Thomas Detry in a three-way playoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keys to Success<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With upwards of 75 players from the DP World Tour who have played little to no rounds in PGA Tour events, building a model was close to pointless this week. On top of that, there are just as many PGA Tour players making the trip across the pond to the mostly unfamiliar surroundings of a hybrid links Scottish course. There is a distinct advantage to being a European player at the Scottish Open who has more experience on these courses. With these factors in mind, there is a very specific group of players that I’m targeting this week for all types of wagers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Klos previews the 2022 Scottish Open, which includes his best outright and finishing position bets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3644,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"bs_types":[14],"bs_tags":[29,121],"class_list":["post-3631","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","bs_type-betting","bs_tag-golf-betting","bs_tag-scottish-open"],"acf":false,"featured_image":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gettyimages-1406924176-612x612-1.jpg","tags_list":[{"id":29,"name":"Golf Betting","slug":"golf-betting"},{"id":121,"name":"Scottish Open","slug":"scottish-open"}],"types_list":[{"id":14,"name":"Betting"}],"bs_author":{"name":"Ron Klos","profile_image":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ron-Klos-150x150.jpg"},"bs_term_name":null,"is_paid":"true","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bs_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bs_types?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"bs_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bs_tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}