The Rolex Series returns to the DP World Tour this week as a stellar field assembles at The Renaissance Club for the Genesis Scottish Open.
All four reigning Major Champions and 14 of the top 15 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are teeing it up in East Lothian, with the event co-sanctioned by the PGA TOUR.
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Favourite - Jon Rahm
There is not a lot to separate World Number Three Rahm from the only man in the field above him in the Official World Golf Ranking - Scottie Scheffler - but his winning record on the coasts of the British Isles just edges him into the box seat.
The Spaniard is a two-time winner of Ireland's national open and also finished third at The 2021 Open Championship and seventh at this event last season.
Add all that to his recent win at the Mexico Open at Vidanta and five other top tens this season and the 2019 European Number One looks a tough man to beat.
Form horse - Scottie Scheffler
But if anyone is to beat Rahm, it may well be World Number One Scheffler, a man still enjoying the run of form that catapulted him to the top of the Official World Golf Ranking.
After making a winning debut for the United States at last year's Ryder Cup, the 26-year-old started the year 12th in the world but he did not stay there for long after claiming a maiden PGA TOUR title at the WM Phoenix Open.
Further wins followed at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play before he claimed a maiden Major Championship victory at the Masters Tournament, his fourth win in six events.
As well as those four triumphs, he has four runner-up finishes in the last nine months, including two in his last four events.
Wild card - Richie Ramsay
There will be few people at Renaissance this week with better knowledge of the layout than the Scot, who is attached to this week's host venue.
He is also a fine links player, with three top tens at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and a victory before entering the paid ranks at the Scottish Amateur Stroke Play Championship to his name.
With a home crowd behind him and the confidence taken from a tie for third at the Betfred British Masters hosted by Danny Willett that was his best DP World Tour finish in almost five years, Ramsay could be peaking at the right time.
