The PGA Tour makes its last stop before The Open Championship with the 2025 Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club

So will Rory McIlroy hit the heights at Portrush this time, or hit it out of bounds again? Rory backers knew their fate pretty quickly the last time the Open was played at McIlroy’s ‘local’

The Scottish Open will once again be held at the Renaissance Club, a course that has plenty of links-style holes but also a few that are more parkland style. The main characteristic of this course is its pot bunkers. Golfers will have to, at all costs, avoid these small but deep pot bunkers, which effectively end up being a hazard.