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This is your guide to the must-see 2025 golf tournaments in Scotland.
Because sometimes, when searching for the right golf trip, it’s best to follow the championships.
That’s how you find your way to bucket-list courses in beautiful destinations.
Between April and October, elite amateur and pro golfers will battle for glory across Scotland’s sublime championship courses.
It’s shaping up to be a sensational season.
So, without further delay, here is your schedule for the 10 unmissable 2025 golf tournaments in Scotland.
Just click for a preview or review of any competition.
Róisín Scanlon coasted to an impressive five-shot victory to claim the 2025 Helen Holm Scottish Women’s Open Championship at Royal Troon.
Scanlon, who carded a final round of 71 on the iconic Old Course, became the fifth Irish woman to win the event.
Overall, the teenager finished -4 on a tournament debut that bodes well for her future.
After posting 72 and 69 (respectively) around the Portland Course on Friday and Saturday, Scanlon took a two-shot lead into Sunday.
But she left the chasing pack behind thanks to a superb -1 performance, including four birdies, with her mother watching and her father on bag-carrying duties.
Just seven miles from Royal Troon, Susan Woodhouse birdied the final hole to clinch the 2025 Scottish Women’s Amateur Open Championship at Western Gailes Golf Club.
Woodhouse nailed a 10-foot putt to see off fellow finalist Freya Russell in blustery conditions along the coast of North Ayrshire.
It was final-day drama at its very best.
Then again, you wouldn’t expect anything less from the epic links at Western Gailes.
Eliot Baker produced a masterful performance to win the Scottish Men’s Open Championship at North Berwick by a whopping seven shots.
Exactly 40 years after Colm Montgomerie won the same tournament at the same venue, the young Englishman was untouchable on the wild, wonderful West Links.
Baker carded rounds of 67, 66, 64 and 67 for a 72-hole stroke play total of 264 (-20). Overall, his tally on Scotland’s Golf Coast included 23 birdies and two eagles.
This victory was no isolated incident.
In February, Baker won the Portuguese Amateur Championship, so you should definitely mark him down as a future star.
Craig Lee launched a stunning final day attack at Royal Dornoch to win the Northern Open by five shots.
Lee overcame a three-stroke deficit to capture the title with a course-record equalling -8 score that left the chasing pack in his wake.
The DP World Tour veteran, who also won this competition in 2009, took home a £3,200 cheque from The PGA’s Open Series event in the wild, wonderful Scottish Highlands.
Rory McIlroy didn’t lose the record-breaking Genesis Scottish Open that featured eight of the world’s top 10 players.
Chris Gotterup won it.
The unheralded American, who arrived at The Renaissance Club ranked No.158, was a picture of composure as he carded a final-round 66 to edge McIlroy by two strokes.
His overall score of -15 earned Gotterup £1.2m and a debut appearance at the following week’s Open Championship in Northern Ireland.
For his part, Rory had to settle for a share of second place with England’s Marco Penge.
The precious final two spots to compete for the Claret Jug at Royal Portrush went to Nicolai Højgaard and Matti Schmid.
In 2026, the Scottish Open returns to the Tom Doak-designed Renaissance Club in picturesque East Lothian for the eighth consecutive season.
Welcome to the Lottie Woad era.
Three weeks after winning the KMPG Irish Women’s Irish Open in one of her last acts as an amateur, Woad exploded onto the professional scene with a stunning victory at the ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open.
The prodigious 21-year-old claimed a three-shot win in an incredibly impressive LPGA debut at Dundonald Links.
Woad posted a final-round 68, which included five birdies, on a windy afternoon in Southwest Scotland for an overall score of -21.
Meanwhile, unlike her triumph in Ireland, this victory came with $300,000 prize money for the former Florida State Seminoles starlet.
You’re back in East Lothian.
And this is another of the 2025 golf tournaments in Scotland previously won by Montgomerie and MacIntyre.
In fact, links golf has been played at the next Scottish Men’s Amateur Championship venue for over 350 years.
All in all, the age-old Gullane Golf Club features 3 exquisite traditional links.
Some places have all the luck!
From July 29 to August 2, the 2025 Scottish Men’s Amateur Championship will be played on Gullane No.1 and Gullane No.2
First, the 264 contestants must navigate 36 holes of qualifying stroke play.
Next, a field of 64 will progress to match-play championship rounds.
Hat’s off to the eventual winner!
At last, an event in Scotland’s wonderland for travelling golfers.
This is Aberdeenshire.
Home of – among many other incredible coastal courses – Trump International Golf Links.
From July 30 to August 3, the Staysure PGA Seniors Championship returns to the venue for the third straight year.
It’s easy to see why.
For starters, the 2024 tournament produced a battle for the ages. Also, Martin Hawtree’s majestic modern links is truly made for top-notch championshps.
So it’s no surprise that the DP World Tour selected it to host an exciting late addition to their 2025 global schedule.
Initially intended as a one-off event on the European Tour, the first and only Scottish Championship was held at Fairmont St Andrews in October 2020.
Then, in May 2025, the DP World Tour revived it to replace the Czech Masters as the penultimate event in the Closing Swing.
The $2.75m Nexo Scottish Championship begins August 7 at Trump International, only four days after the Staysure PGA concludes.
That means, within a fortnight, the five-star resort will host back-to-back tournaments and officially open its much-anticipated New Course.
That’s quite a trilogy.
The last of your must-see 2025 golf tournaments in Scotland is special for many reasons.
For one thing, it’s exclusive to Fife.
Plus, it’s the only pro championship played every year on the Old Course at St Andrews.
Then there’s the unique format of the star-studded Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
It actually features separate competitions across 3 venues.
Firstly, you have the individual professional tournament with a $5 million prize fund.
Secondly, you get the pro-am with celebrities like Justin Timberlake and Bill Murray.
Together with St Andrews, the action unfolds at the captivating Carnoustie and Kingsbarns Golf Links.
So, think of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, which takes place between October 2 and 5, as a template for your next golfing adventure.
And with that in mind…
It’s never too early to start planning for 2026.
Especially if you want to play the unrivalled championship courses from 2025.
Enter IGT Scotland.
Our must-have group golf packages include:
Explore our 5 Scotland golf tours. Pick your perfect package.
Then contact our team.
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