Scottish Open (golf)

Scottish Open
Tournament information
Location	Scotland
Established	1972
Course(s)	Loch Lomond Golf Club
Par	71
Yardage	7,149
Tour(s)	European Tour
Format	Stroke play
Purse	£ 3,000,000
Month played	July
Tournament record score
Aggregate	262 Peter O'Malley (1992)
To-par	-20 Ian Woosnam (1987)
Current champion
	Martin Kaymer

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The Scottish Open, which has been sponsored by Barclays Capital since 2002, is one of the richer golf tournaments on the European Tour. It is currently played at Loch Lomond Golf Club in Argyll and Bute to the North of Glasgow.

The tournament takes place the week before The Open Championship, and some concern has been expressed that the host course, which is very different from the links courses on which the Open is played, puts European Tour players at a disadvantage in the subsequent major, compared to their leading rivals from the PGA Tour, who traditionally spend a week practising for the Open on links courses in Ireland. There is a possibility that the event will move to the Dundonald links course in Ayrshire in the future, which is owned by the same company as Loch Lomond, but in 2006 the company's chief executive Keith Williams commented, "From our point of view, we would also perhaps regard Dundonald as being three years away from hosting a championship of this calibre."^[1]

The Scottish Open was first held in 1972 at Downfield Golf Club near Dundee, but after the second event at St Andrews in 1973 there was a twelve year hiatus before its return to the European Tour calendar in 1986, replacing the Glasgow Open. The tournament was held at Haggs Castle Golf Club in its first year back, before moving to Gleneagles until 1994. It was then hosted at Carnoustie for two years, but it was to disappear from the calendar again following the 1996 season.

Its place on the European Tour schedule from 1997 was taken by the Loch Lomond World Invitational, which had been first held the previous year. From 2001, it was decided that the Loch Lomond event would be known as the Scottish Open, and all prior editions would be granted Scottish Open status which resulted in the anomaly of having two champions in 1996.^[2]

In 1972 the prize fund was £10,000, and by 2008 it had increased to £3 million, making it the largest in a European Tour event that is not co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour.^[1]

[edit] Winners

Year	Winner	Score
Barclays Scottish Open
2009	Martin Kaymer	269 (-15)
2008	Graeme McDowell	271 (-13)
2007	Grégory Havret	270 (-14)^PO
2006	Johan Edfors	271 (-13)
2005	Tim Clark	265 (-19)
2004	Thomas Levet	269 (-15)
2003	Ernie Els	267 (-17)
2002	Eduardo Romero	273 (-11)^PO
The Scottish Open at Loch Lomond
2001	Retief Goosen	268 (-16)
Standard Life Loch Lomond
2000	Ernie Els	273 (-11)
1999	Colin Montgomerie	268 (-16)
1998	Lee Westwood	276 (-8)
Gulfstream Loch Lomond World Invitational
1997	Tom Lehman	265 (-19)
Loch Lomond World Invitational
1996*	Thomas Bjørn	277 (-7)
Scottish Open
1996*	Ian Woosnam	289 (+1)
1995	Wayne Riley	276 (-12)
Bell's Scottish Open
1994	Carl Mason	265 (-15)
1993	Jesper Parnevik	271 (-9)
1992	Peter O'Malley	262 (-18)
1991	Craig Parry	268 (-12)
1990	Ian Woosnam	269 (-15)
1989	Michael Allen	272 (-8)
1988	Barry Lane	271 (-13)
1987	Ian Woosnam	264 (-20)
1986	David Feherty	270 (-14)^PO
Sunbeam Electric Scottish Open
1973	Graham Marsh	286 (-2)
1972	Neil Coles	283