Alfred Dunhill Links

This week the European Tour heads to the Home of Golf for the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

It's a week unlike any other on the European Tour, with two trophies up for grabs as players pair up with an amateur (often celebrity) partner for the pro-am event that runs alongside the professional tournament. Each team plays one round at the Old Course (St Andrews), Carnoustie and Kingsbarns over the first three days before the field is cut to 60 players and ties, and the leading 20 teams, for the final round in St Andrews.

The field is headlined by Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and last week's runner-up Jon Rahm, who is not only making his Dunhill Links debut this week but also playing at The Old Course for the very first time. Also in the strong field this week are last week's winner Danny Willett, as well as Tommy Fleetwood, Tony Finau, Alex Noren and Open Champion Shane Lowry.

Notable Celebrities to look out for this week include Justin Timberlake, Billy Murray, Luis Figo, Wladimir Klitschko, Ronan Keating, Shane Warne, Brian McFadden, Kevin Pietersen, Jamie Redknapp, Sir Steve Redgrave, Brad Simpson, Vinnie Jones.

Player Watch

Rory McIlroy:
McIlroy rallied well at the BMW, recovering from a disappointing first-round 76 (+4) to finish in a tie for 9th at 11-under, recording his fifth top 10 in his last six starts, including his victory at the Tour Championship. Three-time runner-up around these three links courses, and was T2 at the Open at Carnoustie last year. Ranks 1st scoring average on both the European and PGA Tour, as well as 1st for both SG: Off the tee and SG: Tee to green on the PGA Tour, and 2nd for birdie average.

Tommy Fleetwood:
He didn’t have a particularly good week last week at Wentworth (T60), but Fleetwood finished T8 at the Omega European Masters before that, which followed on from a T13 at the Tour Championship and T11 at the BMW Championship. T2-T25-T15-T13-5 in his last five starts in this event, and set the course record at Carnoustie – a 63 – two years ago. Ranks 9th scoring average and SG: Off the tee, 10th SG: Tee to green and 25th SG: Approach on the European Tour this season.

Andrew "Beef" Johnston:
Johnston is having something of a resurgence in form, recording his third top 10 (T9) in his last five starts last week at Wentworth, following a T4 at the Scottish Open and T10 in Sweden. His odds would be lower if not for a lacklustre performance in previous editions of this event, having last teed up in 2016 and finishing T63, the best of three results (the other two being MC’s). Ranks 14th SG: Tee to green, 17th GIR, 20th Scoring average and 24th SG: Around the green.

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