Four members of the victorious European team will receive a homecoming after last weekend’s Ryder Cup to play in this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on the DP World Tour.

 

Tommy Fleetwood (7-1), Tyrrell Hatton (+850), the event’s defending champion, Matt Fitzpatrick (11-1), the 2023 champion, and Robert MacIntyre (16-1) have now all been part of two consecutive Ryder Cup wins. 

Below the four Ryder Cuppers are several European players with aspirations of being part of Team Europe in the future, including Marco Penge (18-1), Harry Hall (20-1), Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (25-1) and David Puig (28-1).  

Brooks Koepka (28-1), Patrick Reed (28-1), Dustin Johnson (50-1) and Tony Finau (55-1) were all part of Team USA once upon a time and would like to get back on the squad again.

Cameron Smith (30-1) and Louis Oosthuizen (70-1) both won the British Open here at St. Andrews. 

The Event

​The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is structured similarly to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and was started in 2001. Each professional player partners with an amateur for the pro-am portion of the event and plays on a three-course rotation: The Old Course at St. Andrews, Carnoustie Golf Links and Kingsbarns Golf Links. After each pair has played each course, there is a 54-hole cut made of the top 60 professionals and the top 20 pro-am pairs. These players will all play at St. Andrews on Sunday.

The Field

Here is this week’s field for the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. 

The Course

The Old Course at St. Andrews is known as the “Home of Golf,” and its history dates to the 15th century. It has hosted more British Opens than any other course (29) and currently hosts it every five years. The 7,318-yard, par-72 has a peculiar setup of 14 par-4s and just two par-3s and two par-5s. St. Andrews features seven double greens with huge, fescue/bentgrass putting surfaces. The 17th Road Hole, with its notorious bunker, and the closing 18th, which features the Swilcan Bridge and the Valley of Sin, are the most famous and iconic closing holes on the planet. Ross Fisher set the course record of 61 here in 2017. In the first three days of the tournament, the pins will be much easier for the professionals and amateurs but will be set up a lot tougher after the 54-hole cut.

Golf Digest provides a hole-by-hole flyover of the Old Course at St. Andrews. 

Carnoustie Golf Links will be the toughest course of the three in the Dunhill Links rota. It usually scores about two strokes higher than the others. Carnoustie plays as a par-72 of 7,407 yards for this event and hosted the British Open (plays as a par-71 for the major) eight times, most recently in 2018, which was won by Francesco Molinari (-8; 276). The course record is 63, set by Tommy Fleetwood in the 2017 event. Carnoustie can also present an interesting betting angle if you have in-play wagering available. Typically, you will find good value on the players who play Carnoustie first on Thursday as the players get the toughest course out of the way first.

Here is a hole-by-hole flyover of Carnoustie. 

Kingsbarns Golf Links, located six miles south of St. Andrews, is the easiest course of the three. It plays as a par-72 of 7,227 yards, so it is the shortest of the three. Unlike its cohorts in the Dunhill Links rota, Kingsbarns is a relatively new course and was designed in 2000 by Kyle Phillips, who has spent years under the tutelage of Robert Trent Jones Jr. Branden Grace set the course record of 60 in the 2012 event before going on to victory.

Golf Digest provides a hole-by-hole flyover video of Kingsbarns.

2024: Tyrrell Hatton (-24/264); 11-1

2023: Matt Fitzpatrick (-19/197); 12-1*

​2022: Ryan Fox (-15/273); 80-1

2021: Danny Willett (-18/270); 100-1

2020: Canceled due to COVID-19

2019: Victor Perez (-22/266); 175-1

2018: Lucas Bjerregaard (-15/273); 50-1

2017: Tyrrell Hatton (-24/264); 22-1

2016: Tyrrell Hatton (-23/265); 66-1

2015: Thorbjørn Olesen (-18/270); 200-1

2014: Oliver Wilson (-17/271); 500-1

2013: David Howell (-23/265); 125-1**

2012: Branden Grace (-22/266); 50-1

2011: Michael Hoey (-22/266); 250-1

2010: Martin Kaymer (-17/271); 16-1

Weather shortened to 54 holes – *

Playoff won in 2013 by David Howell over Peter Uihlein. – **

  • 11 of the last 16 winners had won an event in the current or previous calendar years.
  • 15 of the last 23 winners were from the United Kingdom.
  • 19 of the 23 winners here have earned at least one previous career victory on the DP World Tour.
  • 9 of the last 16 winners here had recorded at least a top-10 in this event in their career before winning.

Selections

Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (25-1, BetMGM)

Neergaard-Petersen has finished inside the top 20 in four of his last five starts and was fourth in this event last year. 

The Dane had three wins on the Challenge Tour last year to earn a spot on the DPWT and nearly earned his first wins on both the DPWT and PGA Tour this year with runners-up at the Qatar Masters and Puerto Rico Open. 

He ranks 10th on the DPWT for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee and 14th on Strokes Gained: Approach. 

Brooks Koepka (28-1, BetRivers)

This has not been a good year for Koepka as he was a non-factor in the majors, did not win anywhere, and the four-time Ryder Cupper was not even in the mix to be considered this year.

However, he showed a bit of life in France last time out, finishing fourth and has gone ninth, seventh, second and 10th at the Dunhill Links on his last four attempts.

The competitive drive is sometimes questioned with him as LIV money is guaranteed, but he still wants to get back to elite status in the game. This week would be a great start against a very good field. 

Kristoffer Reitan (40-1, BetRivers)

Reitan has arguably been the breakout player of the 2025 DP World Tour season, along with Marco Penge, with a victory, two runners-up, and three other top-six finishes in his rookie year. 

Another high finish will almost certainly lock him into earning a PGA Tour card next season.

Daniel Brown (60-1, FanDuel)

Brown is a bit of a links specialist and is in good form of late.

He won his second DPWT title in the BMW International Open at the beginning of July. He has held that form since, finishing eighth in the British Masters four starts ago, which he’s backed up with finishes of ninth in the Irish Open and 12th in the Open de France.

Joakim Lagergren (80-1, FanDuel)

Following an eighth at the European Masters, Lagergren suffered a heartbreaking defeat in a playoff at the Irish Open against Ireland’s own Rory McIlroy. 

The Swede has four top-4 finishes at the Dunhill Links here in the last decade. 

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