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Spots into The Open and Masters Tournament on offer at Genesis Scottish Open

Tuesday, 07 July 2026

The Genesis Scottish Open provides a route into not one but two Major Championships this week.

Part of the Open Qualifying Series, three places will be available – to the leading golfers not already exempt – at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick.

Should players finish on the same score, the Official World Golf Ranking is used as a tie-breaker to determine who takes their place in the field at Royal Birkdale next week.

While Scotland’s national open has long provided routes into The Open Championship, a direct pathway to the Masters was introduced last year as part of a change to qualification criteria.

Should the winner of the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR co-sanctioned $9 million event not already be exempt, they will receive an invitation to the 2027 Masters Tournament at Augusta National.

American Chris Gotterup, who is the defending Genesis Scottish Open champion, was the first player to take advantage of this new pathway initiated through an agreement by Augusta National and The R&A that recognises select national opens.

Six of the top ten and 14 of the leading 20 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are set to tee it up in the second Rolex Series event of the DP World Tour season.

Who in the Genesis Scottish Open field is already exempt for The Open?

As of July 6, the players competing at the Genesis Scottish Open that are exempt for The Open are: (bold denotes DP World Tour member)

• Ludvig Åberg

• Angel Ayora

• Michael Brennan

• Daniel Brown

• Laurie Canter

• Patrick Cantlay

• Bud Cauley

• Eugenio Chacarra

• Wyndham Clark

• Eric Cole

• Corey Conners

• Pierceson Coody

• Martin Couvra

• Hennie du Plessis

• Nico Echavarria

• Harris English

• Alex Fitzpatrick

• Matt Fitzpatrick

• Tommy Fleetwood

• Ryan Fox

• Ryan Gerard

• Chris Gotterup

• Max Greyserman

• Harry Hall

• Brian Harman

• Pádraig Harrington

• Tyrrell Hatton

• Daniel Hillier

• Nicolai Højgaard

• Rasmus Højgaard

• Billy Horschel

• Viktor Hovland

• Sungjae Im

• Casey Jarvis

• Kota Kaneko

• Si Woo Kim

• Michael Kim

• Tom Kim

• Kurt Kitayama

• Jake Knapp

• Brooks Koepka

• Frederic Lacroix

• Joakim Lagergren

• Min Woo Lee

• Haotong Li

• Shane Lowry

• Robert MacIntyre

• Matt McCarty

• Rory McIlroy

• Tom McKibbin

• Francesco Molinari

• Keita Nakajima

• Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen

• Alex Noren

• Shaun Norris

• Andrew Novak

• John Parry

• Marco Penge

• David Puig

• Jon Rahm

• Aaron Rai

• Patrick Reed

• Kristoffer Reitan

• Antoine Rozner

• Adrien Saddier

• Jayden Schaper

• Xander Schauffele

• Scottie Scheffler

• Adam Scott

• Alex Smalley

• Jordan Smith

• JJ Spaun

• Sam Stevens

• Sepp Straka

• Andy Sullivan

• Jesper Svensson

• Nick Taylor

• Sahith Theegala

• Justin Thomas

• Matt Wallace

• Bernd Wiesberger

Who in the Genesis Scottish Open field is already exempt for the Masters in 2027?

• Wyndham Clark