The Genesis Scottish Open is used by many players on the PGA TOUR and the DP World Tour as a final tune-up for next week’s Open Championship, which is the final major of the season. This year, Chris Gotterup ($7,100; 118.5 FPTS) not only secured one of the final three spots in the last Open Qualifier, but he also won the event outright.
Gotterup took the lead with a low-scoring Round 2 and shared the lead coming into the Final Round with Rory McIlroy ($11,400; 108.5 FPTS), who won the event two years ago.
While Rory continued his resurgence on Sunday, Gotterup out-dueled him with a four-under 66. Gotterup bogeyed his opening hole but then made four birdies in a six-hole stretch around the turn. He birdied No. 16 and finished with a pair of pars, two strokes ahead of Rory, who had four birdies and a bogey on his card but had no par-breakers after hole No. 8.
Gotterup’s win was the second of his PGA TOUR career and his first top-10 of 2025. He won the 2024 Myrtle Beach Classic before posting nine top-25 finishes and missing nine cuts in his first 21 events this season.
In addition to Gotterup, Nicolai Hojgaard ($7,500; 101.5 FPTS) and Matti Schmid ($6,900; 81 FPTS) secured their spots in next week’s Open Championship with their strong results this week, finishing T4 and T17, respectively.
My colleague, Alex Hunter, included Gotterup in his value plays for this week, and 9.8% of entries included the 25-year-old in their entry in the PGA TOUR $800K SUMMER SAND TRAP [$200K TO 1ST].
After an exciting finish on Sunday, it was Stonesalltheway who ended up in the top spot in that contest with the entry below. Gotterup anchored the lineup as a great value play along with Jordan Smith ($7,300; 71.5 FPTS) and Marco Penge ($7,000; 106 FPTS). Those three value options saved salary to pay up for Rory. For the two mid-range plays, Matt Fitzpatrick ($8,800; 108.5 FPTS) and Harry Hall ($8,400; 80 FPTS) stepped up and rounded out the strong entry that finished 2.5 points clear of the rest of the field.
