Rory McIlroy will play the Scottish Open!

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Rory McIlroy will be present at the 2021 Scottish Open 2021 after confirming he will be one of five players from the top ten of the Official World Golf Ranking to tee it up at the Renaissance Club from July 8-11. McIlroy will make his seventh appearance at Scotland’s national open - and his first since 2019 - as part of a star-studded line-up including World Number One and recent U.S.

Open champion Jon Rahm, and the third, fourth and fifth ranked players, Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele. Leading the home charge will be Robert MacIntyre, the highest-ranked Scotsman in the world at 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking, while American stars Billy Horschel, Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris are amongst the players making their debuts as the second Rolex Series event of the 2021 Race to Dubai takes it’s traditional slot in the week before The Open.

A strictly limited number of tickets are on sale now for each of the four Scottish Open competition days. Tickets must be purchased in advance and will not be available on site during the tournament. To purchase your tickets, click here.

Reigning Race to Dubai Champion Lee Westwood is also confirmed for this year’s event, alongside 12-time European Tour winner Ian Poulter, fellow Englishman and defending champion Aaron Rai and their compatriots Matt Fitzpatrick, Matt Wallace and 2016 Masters Tournament champion Danny Willett, who have 17 European Tour titles between them.

Rahm, the current Race to Dubai Rankings in partnership with Rolex leader, will go in search of a fifth Rolex Series title when he makes his Scottish Open debut alongside fellow Major winner Morikawa and four-time PGA Tour winner Schauffele, while the 2017 US PGA Championship winner Thomas returns for a second appearance.

World Number 11 Tyrrell Hatton will also look to add to his multiple Rolex Series titles when he tees it up alongside fellow 2018 Ryder Cup stars Tommy Fleetwood, Francesco Molinari and Henrik Stenson, the current European Ryder Cup Captain Padraig Harrington, and his newly appointed Vice Captains Martin Kaymer and Graeme McDowell.

Jon Rahm leads the golf ranking

1 3 2 ESP Jon Rahm 9.9874 479.40 48 -192.78 203.03 48
2 1 1 USA Dustin Johnson 9.9514 408.01 41 -195.16 96.36 41
3 2 3 USA Justin Thomas 8.0883 396.32 49 -169.68 144.02 49
4 4 7 USA Collin Morikawa 7.5338 376.69 50 -102.06 198.43 50
5 6 8 USA Xander Schauffele 6.9485 326.58 47 -137.76 140.10 47
6 5 5 USA Bryson DeChambeau 6.8422 335.27 49 -129.26 130.76 49
7 7 9 USA Patrick Cantlay 6.4176 269.54 42 -116.16 136.86 42
8 10 12 USA Brooks Koepka 6.3420 260.02 41 -131.05 167.11 41
9 8 11 USA Patrick Reed 6.0179 312.93 52 -127.97 136.17 61
10 11 4 NIR Rory McIlroy 6.0028 288.14 48 -167.47 134.14 48
11 9 10 ENG Tyrrell Hatton 5.8840 276.55 47 -106.16 93.99 47
12 18 22 RSA Louis Oosthuizen 5.6499 254.24 45 -83.78 152.79 45
13 12 6 USA Webb Simpson 5.3568 224.99 42 -120.42 57.66 42
14 13 14 NOR Viktor Hovland 5.0669 263.48 52 -65.64 133.42 52
15 14 19 USA Tony Finau 4.9482 257.30 52 -100.73 146.57 58
16 15 20 JPN Hideki Matsuyama 4.9299 256.35 52 -90.52 134.55 56
17 16 13 USA Daniel Berger 4.8375 232.20 48 -72.71 102.56 48
18 17 31 USA Scottie Scheffler 4.7000 244.40 52 -63.14 148.28 61
19 25 28 USA Harris English 4.5322 235.67 52 -61.24 128.00 55
20 19 24 ENG Paul Casey 4.5245 221.70 49 -93.39 143.75 49
21 20 16 ENG Matthew Fitzpatrick 4.2602 221.53 52 -94.12 77.80 57
22 24 82 USA Jordan Spieth 4.2191 219.39 52 -42.71 184.79 52
23 21 23 MEX Abraham Ancer 4.2064 218.73 52 -77.89 105.65 59
24 23 42 USA Billy Horschel 4.1239 214.44 52 -60.08 134.21 55
25 22 26 USA Jason Kokrak 4.0630 211.27 52 -65.51 108.74 52
26 26 18 KOR Sungjae Im 3.7171 193.29 52 -91.52 65.89 72
27 27 36 ENG Lee Westwood 3.6394 181.97 50 -50.65 99.71 50
28 28 27 AUS Cameron Smith 3.5038 171.69 49 -59.79 65.01 49
29 29 59 USA Will Zalatoris 3.4034 170.17 50 -27.64 115.99 50
30 30 66 USA Phil Mickelson 3.3704 155.04 46 -38.08 113.27 46
31 31 45 CHI Joaquin Niemann 3.3594 174.69 52 -58.13 103.54 58
32 32 15 USA Matthew Wolff 3.3508 137.38 41 -62.45 15.42 41
33 33 17 ENG Tommy Fleetwood 3.2184 167.36 52 -100.44 49.43 52
34 34 30 USA Ryan Palmer 3.0859 148.12 48 -53.51 66.98 48
35 37 154 USA Sam Burns 3.0298 148.46 49 -23.78 120.33 49
36 36 54 CAN Corey Conners 3.0243 157.26 52 -50.05 94.44 61
37 35 32 FRA Victor Perez 2.9951 131.79 44 -51.55 49.67 44
38 39 90 RSA Garrick Higgo 2.9373 140.99 48 -20.84 100.09 48
39 38 38 USA Kevin Na 2.9160 148.72 51 -67.24 84.98 51
40 40 100 USA Max Homa 2.8493 148.16 52 -41.63 117.80 54
41 43 21 AUS Adam Scott 2.8391 113.56 40 -81.89 32.94 36
42 41 33 IRL Shane Lowry 2.8213 146.71 52 -81.15 73.19 53
43 45 29 AUS Marc Leishman 2.7681 132.87 48 -70.51 55.17 48
44 42 35 ENG Justin Rose 2.7676 130.08 47 -76.90 63.51 47
45 44 138 USA Stewart Cink 2.7645 118.87 43 -15.81 87.84 43
46 46 34 RSA Christiaan Bezuidenhout 2.7459 142.79 52 -55.71 41.77 53
47 47 91 USA Brian Harman 2.5463 132.41 52 -33.87 87.24 58
48 50 46 ESP Sergio Garcia 2.4605 123.02 50 -57.99 59.97 50
49 49 95 KOR Siwoo Kim 2.4240 126.05 52 -39.94 87.97 63
50 48 55 SCO Robert MacIntyre 2.3988 117.54 49 -43.52 55.73 49
51 54 52 USA Kevin Streelman 2.2958 119.38 52 -47.41 56.01 57
52 51 25 USA Kevin Kisner 2.2955 119.36 52 -77.48 18.43 54
53 53 61 MEX Carlos Ortiz 2.1820 113.47 52 -36.87 45.08 58
54 52 40 AUT Bernd Wiesberger 2.1759 110.97 51 -60.45 42.58 51
55 56 48 ENG Ian Poulter 2.1746 113.08 52 -51.81 50.71 54
56 63 57 USA Russell Henley 2.1741 110.88 51 -34.26 43.01 51
57 58 144 USA Charley Hoffman 2.1310 110.81 52 -27.06 80.44 56
58 55 50 ENG Matt Wallace 2.1276 110.63 52 -59.18 50.77 61
59 57 39 USA Gary Woodland 2.1185 103.81 49 -76.54 42.82 49
60 71 126 RSA Branden Grace 2.1132 109.89 52 -32.12 74.44 56
61 61 44 USA Bubba Watson 2.0923 96.24 46 -45.01 30.86 46
62 60 113 AUS Matt Jones 2.0851 108.43 52 -32.77 71.33 59
63 67 49 CAN Mackenzie Hughes 2.0610 107.17 52 -42.19 33.69 56
64 59 37 USA Matt Kuchar 2.0470 106.44 52 -81.97 47.68 52
65 62 47 USA Brendon Todd 2.0208 105.08 52 -41.84 35.49 56
66 64 272 KOR Kyoung-Hoon Lee 1.9591 101.87 52 -18.17 88.79 65
67 65 60 COL Sebastian J Munoz 1.9317 100.45 52 -41.36 37.36 64
68 66 265 USA Chris Kirk 1.9239 76.95 40 -12.40 63.97 34
69 70 63 USA Lanto Griffin 1.8943 98.50 52 -43.18 38.93 63
70 68 81 USA Talor Gooch 1.8891 98.23 52 -30.66 48.58 55
71 69 43 AUS Jason Day 1.8831 86.62 46 -49.75 20.28 46
72 103 203 ITA Guido Migliozzi 1.8702 87.90 47 -22.62 71.89 47
73 72 103 USA Cameron Tringale 1.8510 90.70 49 -23.64 51.03 49
74 73 156 ARG Emiliano Grillo 1.8064 93.93 52 -24.25 63.82 57
75 74 131 USA Keegan Bradley 1.7889 93.02 52 -31.95 59.87 52
76 78 114 JPN Rikuya Hoshino 1.7812 71.25 40 -26.69 38.15 40
77 75 64 USA Joel Dahmen 1.7269 89.80 52 -43.05 32.52 55
78 76 120 FRA Antoine Rozner 1.7028 88.55 52 -25.56 46.81 53
79 80 152 RSA Daniel van Tonder 1.6877 69.19 41 -18.68 39.53 41
80 77 58 ENG Andy Sullivan 1.6702 78.50 47 -34.98 13.57 47
81 82 99 USA John Catlin 1.6496 80.83 49 -25.15 29.76 49
82 81 130 USA Harold Varner III 1.6255 84.53 52 -28.11 47.78 54
83 79 122 USA Brendan Steele 1.6081 77.19 48 -25.68 40.09 48
84 83 62 USA Adam Long 1.5896 82.66 52 -42.02 13.77 63
85 85 123 JPN Takumi Kanaya 1.5882 63.53 40 -16.37 26.53 22
86 83 74 USA Chan Kim 1.5840 63.36 40 -28.49 21.13 40
87 86 51 RSA Erik van Rooyen 1.5674 81.51 52 -51.22 20.03 57
88 89 68 RSA Dylan Frittelli 1.5425 80.21 52 -36.97 17.17 58
89 87 101 ENG Sam Horsfield 1.5306 68.88 45 -24.54 26.35 45
90 90 199 RSA Brandon Stone 1.5205 76.03 50 -18.60 48.06 50
91 88 53 USA Rickie Fowler 1.4878 69.93 47 -54.10 31.17 47
92 91 182 RSA Dean Burmester 1.4862 77.28 52 -19.24 46.16 56
93 110 206 RSA Charl Schwartzel 1.4750 59.00 40 -12.88 38.03 38
94 92 83 BEL Thomas Detry 1.4620 76.02 52 -32.50 23.78 53
95 93 94 SWE Alex Noren 1.4509 75.45 52 -31.74 29.80 55
96 98 72 USA J.T.

Poston 1.4436 75.07 52 -44.07 26.00 61
97 97 125 USA Aaron Wise 1.4414 67.74 47 -20.89 28.99 47
98 95 219 AUS Jason Scrivener 1.4370 70.41 49 -21.23 49.91 49
99 104 79 GER Martin Kaymer 1.4366 64.65 45 -33.59 19.89 45
100 94 70 AUS Lucas Herbert 1.4338 57.35 40 -28.10 10.82 36