Why Scottie Scheffler decided to shun the Genesis Scottish Open this year

Scheffler, 28, has had a mixed set of results at The Renaissance Club since the DP World Tour‘s Scottish Open merged with the PGA Tour in 2021.

He finished T12 on debut in 2021, missed the cut in 2022 and then finished T3 behind winner Rory McIlroy in 2023.

But the runaway World No.1 who has won six times already on the PGA Tour this season has called for major change ahead of Troon.

Scheffler, who slipped on the green jacket for the second time in three years this April, has been through a rollercoaster few months.

Despite racking up six wins in his last 10 starts, it has all come in a period where Scheffler became a father for the first time.

He also got arrested during a wild weekat the US PGA (finished T8) in May, before all charges were dropped against him last month.

Scheffler admitted to being mentally exhausted en route to a lacklustre T41 at the US Open last month.

That came a week after he won the Memorial Tournament, a tournament he said he only played in because Jack Nicklaus was the host.

“I think maybe my prep would have been a little bit better for this week if I was at home,” Scheffler declared after the US Open.

“But I’m obviously not going to skip Jack‘s tournament. It’s a tournament I love playing. It’s a tournament that I’m humbled to be the champion at.”

Scheffler added: “I feel like going forward, I’ll maybe do things a little bit differently in the weeks leading up to the majors, especially when you know it’s going to be a challenging setup at a US Open.”

As a result of his under-par performance at the US Open, Scheffler has decided to mix things up ahead of The Open and chosen to skip this week’s star-studded $9m Scottish Open in North Berwick.

The tournament had initially been on Scheffler’s early schedule for 2024 but he decided against it at the last minute.

Scheffler needs to win three more times this season in order to match Tiger Woods (2000) and Vijay Singh’s (2004) record of nine wins in a PGA Tour season.

It now looks as though Scheffler will only be playing in four more tournaments in 2024 – The Open, FedEx St Jude Championship, BMW Championship and Tour Championship.

He will therefore need to win three of them if he is to emulate the feats of Woods and Singh.

Scheffler has already smashed one record previously set by Woods that many deemed was unbreakable.