Scottish No.1 Gemma Dryburgh enjoying her best major finish to date at the Amundi Evian Championship at the weekend (T-8), will be joined by compatriots Louise Duncan and Heather Macrae. Duncan won the 2021 Women’s Amateur Championship to qualify into the 2021 Women’s Open where she finished tied 10th to win the Smyth Salver award for low amateur. The 23 year old turned professional ahead of last year’s event and has earned three top-15 finishes this season.

“Last year’s Women’s Scottish Open was my first start as a professional and a huge life moment for me,” Duncan said. “Hopefully I can use what I’ve learnt from the first year of being professional to have a great week at my home open.”

Stirling native Macrae has made over 60 starts on the Ladies European Tour including a T-6 finish at the 2013 Women’s Scottish Open. In 2019, Macrae was diagnosed with cervical cancer and just two weeks before a major operation she won the WPGA Championship to book a place on the Women’s PGA Cup team later that year.

Invitations have been awarded to Hong Kong’s Tiffany Chan, Virginie Ding and Wei Wei Zhang who are not otherwise exempt into the field this year. Chan, a two-time Olympian and winner of the 2016 Hong Kong Ladies Open, will be making her second appearance at the Scottish Open. Ding is a junior at Vanderbilt University in Nashville who recently won the Women’s Orlando Amateur Championship. The 21-year-old earned top-10 finishes at both the 2022 and 2023 Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific championship and will be making her debut on Scottish soil. Zhang is playing her second year on the LPGA after winning five-times on the CLPGA, including four times in 2019. Her win at the Trust Golf Thailand LPGA Masters made her the first player to win four times in one season on the CLPGA.

Women’s Scottish Open field
Weiwei Zhang
Tiffany Chan
Ginnie Ding
Heather Macrae
Louise Duncan
Chiara Noja
Celine Herbin
Laura Fuenfstueck
Alexandra Forsterling
Nanna Koerstz Madsen
Gemma Dryburgh
Mel Reid
Celine Borge
Daniela Holmqvist
Emily Kristine Pedersen
Matilda Castren
Sarah Kemp
Stephanie Kyriacou
Linn Grant
Atthaya Thitikul
Esther Henseleit
Charley Hull
Lee-Anne Pace
Carmen Alonso
Diksha Dagar
Kristyna Napoleaova
Lisa Pettersson
Patricia Isabel Schmidt
Pauline Roussin
Ashleigh Buhai
Lily May Humphreys
Maja Stark
Aditi Ashok
Johanna Gustavsson
Manon De Roey
Ana Pelaez Trivino
Magdalena Simmermacher
Meghan MacLaren
Caroline Hedwall
Liz Young
Alice Hewson
Tiia Koivisto
Morgane Metraux
Leonie Harm
Klara Davidson Spilkova
Olivia Cowan
Ursula Wikstrom
Ines Laklalech
Pia Babnik
Gabriella Cowley
Nicole Garcia
Becky Brewerton
Linnea Strom
Bronte Law
Casandra Alexander
Anne-Charlotte Mora
Laura Beveridge
Michele Thomson
Anna Nordqvist
Kim Metraux
Virginia Elena Carta
Emma Grechi
Cara Gainer
Eleanor Givens
Nicole Broch Estrup
Elin Arvidsson
Rosie Davies
Hannah Burke
Lydia Hall
Agathe Sauzon
Chloe Williams
Celine Boutier
Pamela Pretswell Asher
Sophie Witt
Felicity Johnson
Madelene Sagstrom
Kylie Henry
Sarah Schober
Christine Wolf
Pernilla Lindberg
In-Kyung Kim
Jana Melichova

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