The stands are nonetheless up from the Open and naturally we’ve a defending champion from Scotland in Grant Forrest.
When Grant received final yr Calum Hill went on to make it again to again Scottish wins on tour by successful the Cazoo Traditional every week later.
We ought to be in for a enjoyable week again at St Andrews for the Hero Open.
With the tournaments reversed within the schedule this yr, Richie Ramsay has saved the Cazoo Traditional in Scottish palms with an excellent effort at Hillside on Sunday and I might not guess in opposition to one other house win this weekend at Fairmont.
Richie’s win was incredible to see. He was 4 photographs again with seven holes to play and I believed he had given it a great go however impulsively the trail to victory opened for him and he took it.
He completed three underneath par for the final 5 holes and whereas some will have a look at the actual fact Julien Guerrier let his lead slip on the closing stretch it’s doing Richie a disservice to disregard his end.
Richie received the occasion, and wanted to gap these essential putts to take action and you might see how a lot it meant to him.
He was pumped up at successful for the primary time in seven years and he had each justification in being emotional.
It’s robust to win out right here and it is best to by no means take it as a right.
I understand how exhausting Richie works and the way a lot he wished to win for his daughter Olivia, who’s six.
She wasn’t born the final time Richie received in 2015 and wanting to place that proper is one thing which has fuelled Richie’s drive and willpower.
He has had a troublesome couple of weeks too after being compelled to drag out of the Scottish Open attributable to sickness.
I understand how disenchanted he was at having to sit down The Renaissance Membership out however what higher method to mark your return than by successful the trophy?
It has been a terrific few weeks for Scottish golf with David Legislation’s dramatic qualification for what was a legendary Open championship at St Andrews adopted by Richie’s win.
We nonetheless have the Girls’s Scottish Open at Dundonald Hyperlinks to look ahead to this week and the Girls’s Open at Muirfield subsequent week to return.
