One week before the season’s final major tees off at Royal Birkdale, the world’s best meet up at the Genesis Scottish Open.
A PGA Tour and European DP World Tour co-sanctioned event since 2022, the Scottish Open features 75 players from each of the two tours and serves as a warm-up for the Open Championship.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and No. 2 Rory McIlroy are among 10 of the top 15 ranked players teeing it up at The Renaissance Club. DP Tour eligibility includes LIV players Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, who will get to compete with the top PGA Tour players in back-to-back weeks.
Let's break down our Scottish Open predictions and winner picks this week, including PGA picks for outright winners or top-10 finishers in the event.
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Scottish Open Picks, Predictions & Winner Payouts for PGA This Week
The Scottish Open moved to The Renaissance Club in 2019, and it’s been a co-sanctioned event over multiple tours since 2022. Since then, we’ve seen two Americans (Xander Schauffele and Chris Gotterup) and two Europeans (Rory McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre) win it.
The Renaissance Club is a Scottish links-style course that sits exposed to the North Sea coastline. The weather will help determine whether scores go low or not on a course that has open, firm fairways.
Approach to the big, slow greens is always important, as is avoiding the thick fescue off the fairways.
Scottish Open 2026 Outright Winner Payouts
The Scottish Open purse is set at $9 million; the winner earns $1.5M, with top-10 payouts descending to $213.3K for 10th place.
There are also payouts available on PrizePicks Team Picks for correct predictions on tournament winners, top-10 finishers, and much more. Below are some of the favorites to win the Genesis Scottish Open, as well as their Team Picks payouts for predictions of "Yes" and "No."
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The lower the payout multiplier, the higher the chance of the outcome occurring, according to user consensus picks. Payouts are live as of writing but are subject to change.
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Scottish Open Picks, Winner Predictions This Week
Here are four golfers to consider for the Scottish Open picks on PrizePicks Team Picks.
Also listed are payouts for each golfer to win and finish in the top 10 or 20.
Matt Fitzpatrick Scottish Open Prediction
Matt Fitzpatrick Scottish Open Winner Payout: Yes 14.28x | No 1.02x
Top 10 Payout: Yes 3.03 | No 1.31x
- Matt Fitzpatrick is playing as well as anyone right now, adding a fourth-place finish at the Travelers two weeks ago to his Player of the Year campaign (three wins, two runner-ups).
- He tied for fourth last year at the Scottish Open and also has a sixth-place and runner-up finish since 2021.
- The elder Fitzpatrick has repeatedly shown up at big-time events: He is top-25 in all three majors this season, to go along with a runner-up at the Players Championship and a win at the Signature Event RBC Heritage.
- The current No. 2 in the FedExCup Standings is second overall in shots gained approach and shots gained total, while 84th in putting, which may be mitigated this week with the slow, big greens. He’s also eighth in greens hit and eighth in driving accuracy.
Tyrrell Hatton Scottish Open Prediction
Tyrrell Hatton Scottish Open Winner Payout: Yes 22.22x | No N/A
Top 10 Payout: Yes 3.57x | No 1.23x
- Tyrrell Hatton was one of our picks at the U.S. Open because he had won his last LIV event (in Spain) and was among the top ball strikers in the field. He responded with a seventh-place finish at Shinnecock.
- The Englishman has finished in the top 25 here in his last four appearances since the event was moved to The Renaissance Club, including a tie for sixth in 2023.
- He's gained shots on approach in five of the last six and eight of the last 10 events, including all three Majors.
- Hatton is one of the best Links players around, as he has three wins and three runner-ups at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and finished in the top 20 in four of his last six Open Championship events. Those present a similar style as the Scottish Open.
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Wyndham Clark Scottish Open Prediction
Wyndham Clark Scottish Open Winner Payout: Yes 22.22x | No 1.01x
Top 10 Payout: Yes 3.84x | No 1.21x
- Wyndham Clark won the most recent major, the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, and followed that with a fifth-place finish at the Travelers Championship two weeks ago.
- His last five tournaments have resulted in two wins, a third, and an 11th-place finish, with 19 of the 20 rounds seeing him score 70 or lower.
- Since the Scottish Open was elevated to a co-sanctioned event in 2022, Clark has finished no worse than 25th.
- The two-time U.S. Open champion has gained no fewer than 1.92 strokes on the field in each of his last five tournaments, gaining 3+ shots in three of them.
Kurt Kitayama Scottish Open Prediction
Kurt Kitayama Scottish Open Winner Payout: Yes 33.33x | No N/A
Top 20 Payout: Yes 2.77x | No 1.38x
- Kurt Kitayama’s ball striking remains among the best on Tour. He's now gained shots on approach in 27 consecutive events dating back to last year, per datagolf.com.
- He’s gained shots off the tee in eight straight and 13 of 17 events this season and gained strokes overall in 14 events.
- Kitayama’s issue has been putting (gained in seven and lost in seven), but as mentioned, the greens at the Scottish Open could be friendlier to him in that regard.
- He was runner-up here in 2022 and isn't afraid of big events, as he finished 10th at the PGA Championship, ninth at Doral, eighth at RBC Heritage, and runner-up at Genesis.
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Can world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler end his “drought” and earn his second win of the season as the favorite at the Scottish Open? Could Matt Fitzpatrick, who has won three times this season, further his chances for Player of the Year?
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