Min Woo Lee won the Scottish Open in 2021. Getty Images Welcome to our weekly PGA Tour gambling-tips column, featuring picks from GOLF.com’s expert prognosticator Brady Kannon.
A seasoned golf bettor and commentator, Kannon is a regular guest on SportsGrid, a syndicated audio network devoted to sports and sport betting. You can follow on Twitter at @LasVegasGolfer , and you can read his picks below for the Genesis Scottish Open, which gets underway Thursday in North Berwick, Scotland. Along with Kannon’s recommended plays, you’ll also see data from Chirp Golf, a mobile app that features both Free-To-Play and Daily Fantasy golf contests where you can win cash and prizes with each round and tournament.
Who wouldn’t want to play golf in Scotland for the next couple of weeks? After a trifecta of birdie-fests stateside, the PGA Tour spends the next two weeks across the pond, beginning with the Genesis Scottish Open in North Berwick, followed by the final major championship of the season, the Open Championship at Royal Troon. It will be the sixth consecutive season that the Scottish Open takes place at The Renaissance Club , a par-70 Tom Doak design that measures a little better than 7,200 yards. It will be the third straight year in which the tournament is a co-sanctioned between the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour.
Each tour will send roughly its best 75 players into battle. A few names that are noticeably absent this week are World No. 1, Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau and.