What a glorious Open Championship aperitif we have at the Renaissance Club close by iconic Muirfield in North Berwick where nine of the world’s top ten turn out in a star-studded field for the most competitive Scottish Open in history. Gone are the days when a handful of Americans came over on a pre-Open working holiday, this is serious $8m business now that the tournament also forms an official part of the PGA Tour. In the same way, but at a vastly lower level, this week’s other TV golf, the Barbasol in Kentucky, is co-sanctioned with the DP World Tour and is open to any Europeans not involved in Scotland – bar, of course, the LIV defectors to whom Paul Casey must now be added when the third leg of that controversial series arrives in New Jersey at the end of the month. How many more to come? LIV has many detractors but the South African contingent couldn’t be happier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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