NY Times · Jul 11, 2018
From the Scottish Open to the British Open, Two Tournaments Linked
Gullane Golf Club, the site of this week’s Scottish Open, is in East Lothian, Scotland, about 20 miles east of Edinburgh. The course sits on the southern shore of Scotland and has featured a classic seaside links course for more than 350 years.The Scottish Open, which tees off Thursday at Gullane Golf Club outside Edinburgh, is one of the most uniquely situated tournaments on the European golfing calendar.
Perhaps no other tournament enjoys such a symbiotic relationship with the one that immediately follows it — for many golf players and fans, the Scottish Open is an annual bellwether of golfing form and playing conditions heading into the British Open a few days later.