Collin Morikawa is looking forward to taking on The Renaissance Club and putting on a show for supporters at the 2022 Genesis Scottish Open.
Morikawa is part of a star-studded field at the third Rolex Series event of the 2022 season, with the biggest names from the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR contesting the co-sanctioned tournament.
The American two-time Major winner and current Open Champion, who is fourth on the Official World Golf Ranking, said: "What I've heard about this course is it's firm, fast, new bunkering and it's going to be a lot tougher test apparently from what I've heard.
"I think that only is going to prep me even more [for The Open next week]. I've made the right adjustments club-wise hopefully from last year's experience and hopefully put that aside and just get ready to be creative and get ready to play some golf out here."
Fourteen of the top 15 in the world will tee it up on Thursday and Morikawa added: "It's amazing. It's cool to see the two tours come together and make this alliance, especially with what Jay {Monahan] and Keith Pelley have reiterated over the past few weeks.
"It's cool seeing me be able to play both the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR and see people behind the scenes come together and put everything together to make it hopefully one of the best weeks we see all year.
"I think it's going to be one of the best fields we're going to see other than the Majors. That's what we are here for, to play against the best players in the world. When you see 14 of the 15 best players in the world that's what gets us excited. I know the fans are going to be great. They were great last year even in freezing cold, so I'm excited for the next two weeks."
Morikawa enjoys playing on the DP World Tour and says golf fans on this side of the world can expect to see more of him.
"The past two years, I've been a DP World Tour Member and I have been able to plan out some events to come over here," he said.
"With the future announcements of how the PGA TOUR might kind of roll out and our season turning into possibly a January through August season, it could give me some more opportunities to play some other events out here."
Morikawa will join U.S. Open Champion Matt Fitzpatrick and Will Zalatoris for his first two rounds.
He said: "When you see a field like this, you want to be a part of it. I can't see why you wouldn't want to be a part of something like this. Any time you're playing a country's Open, I was playing with Bob MacIntyre last year, and the fans are crazy in a good way because they love the game but they appreciate just us coming out.
"Any time you're able to be a part of that just enjoy the fans as much as they are enjoying you, you know it's going to be a good time. I knew I was playing this event early on, no matter this alliance or who was going to come; I was going to show up here. And hopefully it's going to continue to keep getting better."
