{"id":781136,"date":"2026-07-05T19:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781136\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:12:25","slug":"tommy-fleetwood-announces-career-news-ahead-of-genesis-scottish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781136\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood Announces Career News Ahead of Genesis Scottish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Tommy Fleetwood announced career news ahead of the Scottish Open, setting the stage for a stretch that also includes The Open Championship.<\/p>\n

Tommy Fleetwood has confirmed his 12th trip to the Genesis Scottish Open, locking in a start at The Renaissance Club seven days before he chases glory on home turf.<\/p>\n

The timing isn\u2019t incidental. With Royal Birkdale hosting The Open Championship the following week, Fleetwood is choosing to sharpen his links game in competition rather than rest before the tournament that matters most to him.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood has never lifted the trophy at his national open, but he\u2019s come close. He finished runner-up in 2020, losing a playoff to fellow Englishman Aaron Rai<\/a>, and has posted three top-10 finishes across 11 prior appearances at the North Berwick venue.<\/p>\n

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GettyTommy Fleetwood of England looks across on the third hole during day two of the Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club on July 12, 2024, in North Berwick, Scotland.<\/p>\n

Tommy Fleetwood\u2019s Scottish Open History Runs Deep<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old arrives in Scotland in excellent form. He closed out 2025 by winning the DP World India Championship<\/a>, then broke through for his first PGA Tour title at the Tour Championship, a victory that also clinched the FedExCup<\/a> and along with it a cool $10 million payday. He added a fourth straight Ryder Cup appearance, helping Europe retain the trophy for a third time.<\/p>\n

The world No. 7-ranked golfer<\/a> carried that hot streak into 2026, posting a sixth top-10 of the season in early June at the Memorial Tournament.<\/p>\n

Asked why he\u2019s stacking two of golf\u2019s biggest weeks back to back, Fleetwood said the scheduling works in his favor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve played well at the Genesis Scottish Open over the years and it\u2019s an event I always enjoy coming back to. It\u2019s in a great spot in the calendar in the week before The Open, so hopefully it\u2019s a memorable fortnight this time around, playing in the home of golf and then on home turf at Royal Birkdale,\u201d Fleetwood said, as quoted by DP World Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood has built a career on near-misses at the majors. He shot a final-round 63 at the 2018 U.S. Open, tying the championship\u2019s single-round scoring record, and still finished runner-up. He was runner-up again at the 2019 Open Championship. Birkdale sits roughly 20 miles from Fleetwood\u2019s hometown of Southport, and a Claret Jug there would close a loop he\u2019s chased his entire career.<\/p>\n

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Genesis Scottish Open History and a Stacked 2026 Field<\/p>\n

Scotland\u2019s national open dates to 1972 and has held a permanent spot on the European-turned-DP World Tour schedule since 1986, according to the PGA Tour\u2019s account of the tournament\u2019s history<\/a>. It became the first event ever co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and DP World Tour in 2022, a status that now draws a 75-player field split between both circuits.<\/p>\n

That format has turned the July 9-12 event into one of golf\u2019s deepest fields outside the majors. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and World No. 2 Rory McIlroy headline alongside defending champion Chris Gotterup and reigning U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark. Scotland\u2019s Robert MacIntyre, Xander Schauffele, Brooks Koepka and Viktor Hovland round out a field with five of the world\u2019s top 10 already committed.<\/p>\n

The Renaissance Club will host for an eighth straight year, with the Rolex Series stop also serving as the final leg of the Open Qualifying Series. The top three finishers not otherwise exempt punch tickets to Royal Birkdale, where The Open Championship returns for an 11th time<\/a> since 1954. Championship play begins July 16 and runs through July 19.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tJonathan Vankin<\/a> JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist who covers MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, boxing, golf, and Olympic sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Newspaper and Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering the Olympics, pro baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Tommy Fleetwood announced career news ahead of the Scottish Open, setting the stage for a stretch that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-781136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}