Scottish Open 2026 Odds, Preview And Picks

The Genesis Scottish Open 2026 event is featured this week at The Renaissance Club ahead of next week’s Open Championship at Royal Berkdale in England. I chip-in coverage, odds, picks and information you can bet on and you can check out my past Scottish Open preview with course information at Forbes.

Also, here are 5 things to know about The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, host of the Genesis Scottish Open. The Par 71 links course plays to 7,281 yards and the property sits on a bluff overlooking Blackness Bay to the west and the North Sea to the east. The club sits next to private Muirfield Golf Club on the west.

This year’s event includes 10 of the top 15 players in the world golf rankings with 75 top players from both the PGA Tour an DP World Tour. Also, select top players from LIV Golf who have DP Tour eligibility will play headlined by Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton and Patrick Reed.

Scottish Open 2026 Odds

Leading favorites and contenders golf odds from top online sportsbooks refresh periodically and are subject to change, including on props and live betting. Odds to win courtesy of Circa Sports, where we cashed in more matchup and prop winners at last week’s John Deere Classic, but suffered yet another unfortunate outright defeat on longshot Ben Kholes after he blew a 3-shot lead on the back 9 Sunday and hit his approach shot from the fairway into the water on 18 to cost him more than 300,000 and a victory along with his bettors like us.

• +530: Scheffler
• +950: McIlroy
• +1550: Rahm
• +1700: M. Fitzpatrick
• +1800: Schauffele
• +1900: Fleetwood
• +2150: Aberg
• +2700: Gotterup
• +2900: Clark
• +3400: Hatton, Hovland
• +3500: MacIntyre
• +4200: J. Thomas
• +4400: Cantlay
• +4500 Si Woo Kim
• +4600: N. Hojgaard
• +5000: Min Woo Lee
• +5200: A. Fitzpatrick, Kitayama
• +5300: Reitan
• +5500: Rai, Spaun
• +6000: Reed
• +7000: Puig
• +7500: A. Scott
• +8000: Tom Kim
• +8500: English, Chacarra, Knapp, Penge
• +9500: Cauley
• +10000-14500: Brennan, Gerard, Theegala, Conners, Straka, Smalley, Ayora, Garman, Ghim, Coody, Cole, Thorbjornsen, Fox, Potgieter, Noren, Hall, Wallace

Notable players skipping the Scottish Open but who will play in next week’s Open Championship include Colling Morikawa, Justin Rose, Cameron Young, Russell Henley and Sam Burns.

The top DP World Tour players playing in the Scottish Open who lead the Race to Dubai standings include Casey Jarvis,  Eugenio Chacarra, Jayden Schaper, Andy Sullivan,  Oliver Lindell, Shaun Norris, Dan Bradbury, Kota Kaneko, Daniel Hillier and Mikael Lindberg.

Scottish Open 2026 Picks

Fairway’s Favorites: Rahm, M. Fitzpatrick, Fleetwood, Gotterup
Fairway’s Longshots: Hatton, Kitayama, Tom Kim, Penge
Fairway’s Flyers: Brennan, J. Svensson

Tournament matchups: Pass

Another tournament matchup winner (1-0) at the Travelers Championship and John Deere Classic (1-0) the past two weeks runs the record to 23-12 this season with a best week of 4-0 at the Cognizant Classic. That includes 11-9 in Majors and Signature Events posted at OSGA. Travelers championship props and all posted matchups 4-1, and John Deere Classic props and all matchups also 4-1.

Check back or updates on X @FairwayJay for any round-by-round matchups.

Next week it’s the final major of the year and The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale on the East Coast of England in Southport. I’ll be adding some player profiles for the 154th Open, and you can get an early look at Royal Birkdale with a hole-by-hole video.

Golf Betting Notes and History from FairwayJay

FairwayJay 2026 tournament matchups 23-12 through the John Deere Classic in July.

My golf coverage and research includes use and references from sites at Data Golf along with Fantasy National, and others. I gain added information from handicappers, analysts, colleagues and media members while researching course stats and previews with previous weekly coverage in my PGA tournament updates in Forbes. That includes top golf insider Justin Ray Golf, who contributes to PGA Tour (dot com) and The Athletic with insightful stats and stories. The site GolfStats has also has player performance charts and a player competitor tool plus added stats and previews.

I’ve added my own player profiles pieces for select majors and events including 2026 Masters, 2026 Players Championship, 2026 U.S. Open, 2025 Masters, 2025 Players Championship and trends. You can review those along with others from 2024 in Forbes for The Player Championship and Masters top 9 and top 18 golfers plus 12 top golfers at the Open Championship at Royal Troon.