Scottish Open (Golf)

The Scottish Open, which was sponsored from 2002 to 2011 by Barclays Capital, is one of the more highly doped golf tournaments on the European Tour. It is played on the Castle Stuart Golf Links in Inverness in the north of Scotland at the time. Since 2012 is the sponsor Aberdeen Asset Management.

The tournament will be held in the week before the Open Championship, and it was listed some concerns that the price of the Loch Lomond Golf Club, which is very different from the links courses of the Open disadvantaged European Tour players for the following major tournament. The leading rivals the PGA Tour to spend the same week traditionally with training on links courses in Ireland. 2006 has been proposed to stage the event on the Dundonald Links Course in Ayrshire, where they were not yet prepared for a tournament of this caliber. On 24 January 2011 it was announced that the Barclays Scottish Open will be held in Inverness because of financial difficulties at the Castle Stuart Golf Links.

The Scottish Open 1972 were first aligned in Downfield Golf Club near Dundee, however, took place after the second event in 1973 at St Andrews a twelve-year interruption. 1986 emerged the tournament back on the European Tour, and replaced the Glasgow Open. The Scottish Open championship in their first comeback year in Haggs Castle Golf Club, after the competition until 1994 was regularly held in Gleneagles. The next two years changed the tournament after Carnoustie, disappeared in 1996 but again the tournament calendar.

The space freed up on the European Tour schedule was captured in 1997 by the Loch Lomond World Invitational, which has already held a year earlier. In 2001 it was decided that the Loch Lomond event should be passed as Scottish Open and all previous events such as Scottish Open tournaments were to count, which led to the unusual situation that the tournament in 1996 had two winners.

From 1972 to 2008, the prize money increased from 10,000 to over three million pounds. It was in 2012 reduced to 2.5 million, but increased again a year later to three million.

List of winners

* - 1996 two discharged Events