What is the cutline at the 2023 Genesis Scottish Open? How many players will make the cut?
The field in Scotland is stacked, which leaves the obvious question of ‘who will make the cut?’ Yet, before we get to that, what exactly is the cutline?
Where format and cut are concerned, things will remain the same for this year’s Genesis Scottish Open, with the PGA Tour event once again being played at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland.
The 2023 Genesis Scottish Open: Field & Format
As you may know, the field 2023 Genesis Scottish Open consists of 156 players. Regarding how they made it there, that would have been through the PGA Tour’s and DP World Tour’s eligibility criteria, or via open qualifying. Regarding the format itself, the tournament is a 72-hole event with the field divided into threesomes across the first two rounds. During those first two rounds, the threesomes remain paired together. It’s also worth mentioning that there is one twosome among the pairings and all of them are given tee times in the morning as well as the afternoon. Each of the pairs will be allowed to start one round on the first tee and the other on the 10th, with the field split evenly on each day of play between the morning and afternoon.
Where the third and fourth rounds are concerned, the pairings and tee times are determined by each player’s total score through two and three rounds, respectively. Understandably, players with the highest total scores go first, while the rest go in descending order until the two players with the lowest total scores in the final group. The player with the lowest total score after 72 holes is declared the winner and takes home the winner’s share of the 2023 Genesis Scottish Open purse. Perhaps more importantly, the winner also earns 500 FedEx Cup points, and roughly 62.2 Official World Golf Ranking points.
What about the cutline for the 2023 Genesis Scottish Open?
At the end of play on Friday the cutline was 2-under par.
Genesis Scottish Open playoff format
A playoff to settle any ties after 72 holes will be played under PGA Tour rules. With that in mind, the Genesis Scottish Open playoff format is a sudden-death format, with playoff holes being 18, 18, 16, 17, 18, 16, 17, then 18 played repeatedly by any qualifying players. Playoff participants then compete hole-by-hole until a winner is determined by a player scoring the lowest among those who remain.
*We will continue to update this story as play progresses*