“We’ve got to be careful with that because then these national opens lose the fabric of what they are,” said McIlroy, the two-time Masters champion.<\/p>\n
“You can’t call yourself a national open any more if it’s a closed-off tournament and there’s a certain number of guys.<\/p>\n
“These events need to be treated differently than the Travelers Championship or RBC Heritage or whatever else is going to be in the Championship series.”<\/p>\n
The Scottish Open has been co-sanctioned by the PGA and DP World Tours since 2022.<\/p>\n
That means it can be played by members of either tour if they are ranked high enough to be eligible for the 156-man field.<\/p>\n
PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp’s approved plan is for the Championship tier to feature fields of about 120 players competing for prize funds of at least $20m (\u00a315m).<\/p>\n
The Scottish Open purse is \u00a36.7m, but MacIntyre said: “I personally think the Scottish Open is going to be totally fine.<\/p>\n
“I don’t see it being a $20m event. I see it being a Rolex Series\/European Tour event. It would be a bit mad to put a $20m event in Scotland given the world we live in today. It’s not the same as America.”<\/p>\n
Many leading Americans are pleased to play in the Scottish Open in order to hone their games on a seaside links before The Open the following week.<\/p>\n
“It needs to work within the new schedule,” said world number one and reigning Open champion Scottie Scheffler.<\/p>\n
“It’s an important one that we keep it in the Championship Series just because you get so many guys that come over here and play the week before [The Open].”<\/p>\n
Scheffler said it is “hard to tell” whether the field should also include DP World Tour players under the new set-up.<\/p>\n
“Golf is so difficult to rank players when they are not playing together all the time,” said the 30-year-old American.<\/p>\n
“Having similar guys playing against each other on great golf courses week in and week out is the best way to set up our schedule.<\/p>\n
“To have this tournament fit into that mould would be really nice.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We’ve got to be careful with that because then these national opens lose the fabric of what they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}