Top-ranked Scot Bob MacIntyre has himself a fellow Tartan born player for company on next year’s PGA Tour.
For the past three seasons, MacIntyre’s been the lone Scottish-born competing on pro golf’s top stage but that will all change with Sandy Scott earning full 2027 PGA Tour membership rights thanks to the 28-year-old’s one-stroke victory on Sunday to capture the Korn Ferry Tour’s Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship in Columbus, Ohio.
It was Scott’s first on the secondary Korn Ferry Tour and lifted him to second spot on the development tour’s points list.
Victory also arrived a week after he finished runner-up at the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation in Franklin, Tennessee.
Though it’s not been easy for the Inverness-born Scott who needed two surgeries after tearing ligaments in his right wrist in 2019 and admitted: “I was in some really low times and didn’t know if I’d ever play golf again.”
NOT ONE BUT TWO SCOTS COMPETING 2027 PGA TOUR …
As Sandy Scott @TaylorMadeGolf captures @KornFerryTour event & earn his place @PGATour
Scott now joins fellow Bob MacIntyre @robert1lefty on golf’s biggest stage & a first in some years with a pair ofs to cheer on … pic.twitter.com/U31h3T0S6I
— Fatiha (@TOURMISS) September 21, 2026
Scotland had long boasted at least two players in Russell Knox and Martin Laird competing week-in, week out on the PGA though that all changed when fellow Inverness-born Knox failed to secure full Tour playing rights for the 2023/24 season, and after a 12-year PGA Tour career where he won twice and earning $17.4m.
There was a second Scot in Marin Laird who played alongside Knox. Laird was born and raised in Glasgow and has long been a resident of Denver, Colorado. He boasts four Tour victories including the Arnold Palmer Invitational in a $22m PGA Tour career from 2008 up till 2024 when also losing full exempt status.
Now the Home of Nation golf heads into season 2027 PGA Tour year with two Tartan players to cheer on.
Scott began last week’s Korn Ferry event in 13th place on the tour money list. He sensationally birdied two of his final three holes to close with a six-under 65 on the Scarlet Course at Ohio State University Golf Club and post 18-under 266, breaking the 72-hole tournament record and edging out American John Marshall Butler for the win.
He became the seventh player – and first European – to have qualified for the main tour during the 2027 season.
“Super excited to get going next year.” pic.twitter.com/O9DKALvxO1
— Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) September 20, 2026
Scott had finished 55th in his rookie season on the development tour last year but will next year return to a PGA Tour event for the first time since the 2020 US Open at Winged Foot Golf Club, when he qualified by finishing sixth in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
“It’s been a weird journey and I’m just so happy,” he said.
You can be assured MacIntyre may have already been in touch with Scott to arrange a first tournament together practice round.
