Hannah Green competes at Dundonald Links during the ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open in North Ayrshire.
The Quick Verdict

Ryan Fox's breakthrough at Royal Birkdale has the region buzzing, and now the baton passes to two overlapping fields in Scotland — the LPGA/LET's Women's Scottish Open at Dundonald Links and the senior major at Gleneagles — while the PGA TOUR, LIV Golf, and a handful of feeder tours keep Australasian names in play from Minnesota to Ontario. Hannah Green's Scottish roots and Karis Davidson's childhood home give the women's event extra local flavor, and Scott Hend arrives at Gleneagles on the back of three straight podium finishes.

Scotland Hosts a Homecoming for Green and Davidson

Before the LPGA's best turn their attention to Royal Lytham & St Annes for the AIG Women's Open, they're teeing off at Dundonald Links for the ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open, a joint LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour event. Minjee Lee draws a morning tee time alongside fellow Australian major champion Grace Kim, while Hannah Green heads out in the afternoon wave with local favorite Gemma Dryburgh and 2022 Women's Open winner Ashleigh Buhai — whose husband David happens to be Green's caddie.

For Green, this week carries weight beyond the leaderboard. Her mother grew up roughly 45 minutes north of Aberdeen, and playing in Scotland taps into that family history directly.

"It's going to be hard because the forecast is saying wind, and you never really know what's going to happen," Green said. "You have to bring your rain gear and hope that it doesn't rain. I've got a nice pairing the first two rounds, but you don't know if there's going to be one side of the draw that's better than the other. That's too hard to tell until Friday night, but it's nice to be back in Scotland. My mum is from Scotland, she's from a place about 45 minutes north of Aberdeen. It's an important tournament to me this week. I've been fortunate to win my home open in Australia this year and come off a really successful year. To be able to win the Scottish Open would be big."

Green hasn't crossed paths with Ryan Fox in person, but she's not shy about admitting his Open win resonated with the entire Australasian contingent.

"Everyone is super proud of him," Green said. "A shame that he didn't have his family with him. I don't think we've formally met but seems like everyone on tour is really happy for him. Seems like a really good guy."

Gold Coast product Karis Davidson has her own Scottish tie — she was born there and lived in the country until age nine. She'll play the opening two rounds alongside New Zealand's Amelia Garvey and South Korea's Minji Kang.

Gleneagles Hosts the Year's Last Senior Major

Sandwiched between The Open and the AIG Women's Open, the ISPS HANDA Senior Open at Gleneagles brings together the world's top over-50 golfers, with 14 Australasians in the field. Scott Hend heads into the week in genuinely strong form — he finished fourth here last year and has followed that up with three straight podium finishes (first, second, and third) in his most recent PGA TOUR Champions starts.

PGA TOUR, LIV, and the Feeder Circuits Stay Busy

The PGA TOUR resumes at the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota, with Jason Day, Cam Davis, Karl Vilips, and New Zealander Thomas Campbell all in the field. Campbell, a PGA Professional at The Wilds Golf Club in Minnesota, is making his second 3M Open start after being named Minnesota PGA Professional Player of the Year for a second consecutive year.

LIV Golf also returns to action this week at LIV Golf United Kingdom presented by JCB, held at JCB Golf & Country Club in Uttoxeter. Travis Smyth has been added to Cam Smith's Ripper GC squad alongside Marc Leishman and Lucas Herbert. The venue has history for both parties — Smith won there individually in 2023, while Ripper GC has finished runner-up in the team event twice at the same course.

Further down the golf ecosystem, Rhein Gibson tees it up at the Korn Ferry Tour's Evans Scholars Invitational in Illinois, Su Oh and Gabriela Ruffels headline Australasian interest at the Epson Tour's Hartford HealthCare Women's Championship in Connecticut, and Grant Booth represents the region at PGA TOUR Americas' Osprey Valley Open in Ontario.

Global Schedule & Key Australasians

Tournament Venue Key Australasians Prize Money
ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open Dundonald Links, Scotland Minjee Lee, Grace Kim, Hannah Green, Karis Davidson US$2m
ISPS HANDA Senior Open Gleneagles, Scotland Scott Hend, Michael Campbell (NZ), Mark Brown (NZ) US$2.85m
3M Open TPC Twin Cities, Minnesota Jason Day, Cam Davis, Karl Vilips, Thomas Campbell (NZ) US$8.8m
LIV Golf United Kingdom JCB Golf & Country Club, England Cam Smith, Marc Leishman, Lucas Herbert, Travis Smyth, Danny Lee (NZ), Ben Campbell (NZ) US$20m individual / US$5m team
Evans Scholars Invitational The Glen Club, Illinois Rhein Gibson US$1m
Hartford HealthCare Women's Championship Golf Club of Avon, Connecticut Su Oh, Hira Naveed, Gabriela Ruffels US$250,000
Osprey Valley Open TPC Toronto, Ontario Grant Booth US$225,000

The Raw Take

Ryan Fox's Open win has done something genuinely useful here — it's given every Australasian storyline this week a reason to matter beyond the leaderboard math. Hannah Green talking about her mum's hometown near Aberdeen isn't filler, it's the kind of narrative thread that makes a mid-tier LPGA stop feel like more than just another week on tour. Same goes for Davidson, who's essentially playing a homecoming event nobody scripted for her.

The real sleeper storyline, though, is Scott Hend at Gleneagles. Three straight podiums heading into a senior major isn't a hot streak, that's a player peaking at exactly the right moment, and a fourth-place finish here last year means he already knows how to navigate that golf course under pressure. If Fox's win at Birkdale was the region's headline moment of the month, Hend quietly finishing top-three at a senior major would be the follow-up nobody saw coming but everybody should have.