PGA Tour winner claims he’s going to use a two-wood on the greens rather than a putter at the Scottish Open

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The Scottish Open is now underway, with the very best players from the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour competing against each other in the co-sanctioned event.

The world’s elite players are all out in force at The Scottish Open, and have assembled to form the second strongest field on the PGA Tour, behind only The Players Championship.

The Scottish Open this week is a highly anticipated event, and fortunately, the weather is set to behave itself as well!

Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are the two favourites to win this week, but it really is anyone’s game at The Renaissance Club, with so many top-class players in the field.

The players who have traveled over from the PGA Tour will have to vary the way in which they approach shots around the greens.

There really is nothing quite like links golf.

PGA Tour winner on what he plans to do on the greens at the Scottish Open

As we all know, links golf is completely different in every way from the challenge that golf in the United States presents.

And one player in particular plans to take an unprecedented approach to putting, or not putting so to speak.

Dylan Frittelli – the 2019 John Deere Classic champion – has opened up on a theory he has, which he plans to put into practice at the Scottish Open this week.

The South African said: “I have a theory how the 2-wood or the mini-driver is the most versatile club for links golf. We had a 20 mph wind yesterday, it was super windy. I hit this on 16, I was 80 yards out waiting to play so I said give me that, I had a 2 wood in my hands, I hit it from 80 yards I hit it to like 10 feet and then I hit the wedge to 30 feet. One more theory, putts outside of 50 feet, if you mis-hit it with a putter you’re not going to get great inertia, it’s not going to have a lot of speed but a 2 wood, big sweet spot. So outside of 50 feet, 20 mph plus I’m going to be using the 2 wood to putt, that’s my new theory, we’ll see how it turns out.“

That’s actually a very interesting theory from Frittelli, although it must be said, judging the distance from outside of 50 feet with a two-wood will surely be an incredibly difficult thing to do.

How to watch The Scottish Open 2025

If you want to watch Frittelli use his two-wood on the greens this week, there are multiple ways to tune into the action.

If you’re in the UK, Sky Sports has you covered each and every day from Thursday through to Sunday.

Meanwhile, over in the United States, you can follow the action on Golf Channel and NBC Sports.

This week at the Scottish Open should be tremendous viewing for golf fans the world over.