Tom Kim carded a final-round 64 to win the 2026 Genesis Scottish Open by two strokes and earn a spot at The Masters next year.
The 24-year-old was bogey-free on Sunday and in complete control with his irons, defeating Min Woo Lee and co by a couple and earning his first pro victory in 1,001 days.
A successful five-foot putt at the last marked a significant moment for the South Korean, who had fallen outside of the world's top-150 only a couple of years after being World No.11.
Yet, a third place at the US Open last month appeared to signal the start of his upwards momentum once more, and a win at the PGA Tour and DP World Tour's co-sanctioned event in Scotland may turn out to be a pivotal moment in Kim's career.
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A maiden DP World Tour triumph gives him full status in the US and Europe over the coming seasons and ensures his Major chances have enjoyed a real boost, too. Not to mention, there was another hefty payout on the line in Scotland as well.
Speaking immediately after he was crowned champion, Kim said: "I played as good as I could have down the stretch with the pressure. I executed when I needed to. I'm very proud of myself for being calm out there.
"The last putt, I've hit a similar putt like that a lot in my life in practice, so I just told myself it's the same at home. This is awesome."
"I played as good as I could have down the stretch with the pressure. I executed when I needed to. I'm very proud of myself for being calm out there."The last putt, I've hit a similar putt like that a lot in my life, in practice so I just told myself it's the same at home. This… pic.twitter.com/1KLCCxsm8RJuly 12, 2026
There was also success for others in the field, too, with Johnny Keefer, Michael Thorbjornsen and Victor Perez each earning a last-gasp spot at The Open Championship next week.
There were three places on offer to the leading players not already exempt for Royal Birkdale, leaving just one place in The Open now available. That will be decided on Monday at The Open's Last-Chance Qualifier.
Meanwhile, Keita Nakajima, Matt Fitzpatrick and Robert MacIntyre also shared third on 13-under alongside Keefer.
Rory McIlroy made a final-round charge to finish T7th with Thorbjornsen, and the top-10 was completed by Perez and Si Woo Kim.
Defending champion Chris Gotterup ended just outside the top-10 in a share of 11th with Kevin Roy, who narrowly missed out on a spot at the year's final men's Major.
GENESIS SCOTTISH OPEN LEADERBOARD
- -17 Tom Kim
- -15 Min Woo Lee
- -13 Johnny Keefer
- -13 Keita Nakajima
- -13 Matt Fitzpatrick
- -13 Robert MacIntyre
- -12 Rory McIlroy
- -12 Michael Thorbjornsen
- -11 Victor Perez
- -11 Si Woo Kim
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WELCOME
Hello and welcome to Golf Monthly's coverage of the 2026 Genesis Scottish Open final round at The Renaissance Club.
Tom Kim has just rolled in a mid-range birdie putt at the 10th, consequently doubling his advantage at the top, while the leaders have just begun their final descents.
Matt Fitzpatrick and Min Woo Lee are on 13-under and will be hoping for a little more traction after the turn on what has largely been a tough day scoring wise.
Strap in and enjoy the back nine where I'll bring you all of the key updates as they happen across the course. Thanks for tuning in!
WHAT'S HAPPENED SO FAR?
Just to bring you up to speed a little bit, the final round was completed earlier this morning and it was Robert MacIntyre, Matt Fitzpatrick and Min Woo Lee all tied at the top through 54 holes.
However, while Fitzpatrick and Lee have remained near the top, it's been a much tougher day for MacIntyre and he's tumbled down the leaderboard.
While it has been difficult to chain lots of birdies (or even find them full stop), Rory McIlroy has been on something of a charge and is currently T5th on 12-under (-6 today) - although he's on the 18th and will require a fair few mistakes from his rivals if he is to win.
NAKAJIMA INTO T2ND
The Japanese pro taps in at the par-5 12th and moves up to 13-under alongside Lee and Fitzpatrick. He was excellent on the DP World Tour last term and is now showing what he can do against the best the PGA Tour has to offer.
GREAT RECOVERY
Min Woo Lee had found a green-side pot bunker at the 10th and his ball was slightly buried. But he recovers the situation well and will have a chance of escaping with a par. It's not a great chance, but it's a chance.
One hole ahead, Tom Kim chips to the hole's side after sending his second from one side of the green t'other. Thanks to a missed birdie try from Fitzpatrick, which was a very long way out, the Korean will stay two ahead.
LEE STAYS ALIVE
Speaking of top recovery shots, Min Woo makes an incredible up-and-down to save par at the 10th.
MCILROY SIGNS FOR A 64
What a final round from McIlroy, but it won't be enough to win after a horrible third round 73. A six-under 64 should secure him another top-10, but it could and should have been so much better.
GO JOHNNY GO
And here's another one joining the party. Johnny Keefer rolls in a right-to-lefter at the 12th and he reaches 13-under, two behind Tom Kim who's just lashed his drive down the same hole.
On the flip side, Matt Fitzpatrick has just hit a shocker off the tee. He pulled a low snapper into the left rough, just past a fairway bunker. That may well take birdie out of the equation.
TOUGH CONDITIONS
It's cold and windy out there and that's making it difficult to pop the ball close. Even still, Min Woo Lee's approach into the 11th would have been disappointing after sitting in the perfect position off the tee. Nonetheless, his birdie putt is sublime and leaves the Australian a tap-in for par.
BIRDIE CHANCE
Tom Kim is trying to take advantage of the final par 5 out here with birdies at a real premium, as I've mentioned. From 101 yards, the Korean clips a wedge over the flag and it spins back to about 10 feet. His lead could be three strokes very shortly.
Back on the tee, Min Woo and Fitzpatrick have munched their drives tight down the right and might well be able to reach in two into a cold and tough breeze.
CRUEL
Johnny Keefer was one part-roll away from moving within one of the lead. His birdie try at the par-4 13th was tracking and it even rolled once more right at the end when it looked to have stopped, but it still wasn't enough! That is so tough.
THREE AHEAD
Tom Kim does it! He calmly and confidently rolls in a birdie putt at the par-5 12th to reach 16-under. If he pars his way home, there is almost no chance anyone roars past him. Start carving the trophy!
DOD ALERT
It might not have been MacIntyre's day, but that is some shot. He takes driver off the deck and fires a low runner into the 12th green from around 300 yards. Eagle chance coming up.
Following on, Fitzpatrick and Lee crunch 3-woods onto the dance floor as well. The Englishman probably has the best look for eagle, mind.
NO GOOD FROM NAKAJIMA
Another nearly man rolls up as Keita Nakajima sends a sprawling birdie putt towards the hole, only for it to pull up just short. He remains at 13-under with four holes to play.
TOUGH PUTT TO READ
The final group are on the green, but it's a large putting surface and there's a significant drop to go down between them and the hole.
Fitzpatrick is certainly not guaranteed a birdie now after his effort trickles on slightly, and even Lee might be a touch nervous, too.
EAGLE FOR MACINTYRE
But there's no such trouble for Robert MacIntyre! The Scot reads that same putt brilliantly and slams in a superb eagle after that excellent DOD shot just now. He's into the top-10.
Fitzpatrick, however, remains T2nd after his birdie putt rolls around the edge of the hole but stays out.
🚨BOB EAGLE🚨Robert MacIntyre holes a long putt on 12 to move back to -11 📈#GenesisScottishOpen | #RolexSeries pic.twitter.com/ZucQRsi2u9July 12, 2026
LEE INTO SECOND
Min Woo Lee could be the man to put the pressure on Tom Kim now. He calmly rolls his birdie putt into the centre of the hole from three feet and we all hear that extremely satisfying rattle of golf ball on plastic cup. Lee up to 14-under.
NO LUCK AT 13
Tom Kim's wedge into the 13th is a little long and his birdie putt isn't that close either. But he posts the par putt home and walks on to the 14th with a two-shot advantage still.
FLAG SURROUNDED
There could be even more positive momentum arriving for Lee now after he floats a lovely wedge over the top of the flag at the 13th. It's maybe 20 feet away, but that's a good chance for birdie.
Fitzpatrick's approach is even better, though, and he's around 10-12 feet away now. A couple of birdies would make Tom Kim sweat a little, no doubt.
NO CIGAR
It's a perfect weight from Lee, but he misses to the left after over-borrowing down the slope.
NO GIMME FOR KEEFER
Keefer sends his tee shot at the par-3 15th to the back of the green before whacking his birdie try out to the right. That's certainly not a gimme, either, and he can't afford to drop a shot at this stage.
INCHES AWAY
Fitzpatrick rolls his putt end over end at the 13th from around eight feet, but it's on the wrong line and stays above ground. Fitzpatrick looks, as you can probably imagine, slightly irked at that.
HEAVY HANDED FROM KIM
The par-4 14th is a drivable one at 328 yards. Kim's tee shot was pretty good, but it required him to bump a chip into an up slope and hope it released towards the flag.
The first part happened, but Kim's ball just scuttled on a little more than he'd have liked and this is no given for birdie. The chasers will hope his next putt slides on by.
Elsewhere, Keefer makes his par to stay three back.
DOOR NOT COMPLETELY CLOSED
Well then. Kim's birdie try and the 14th does slide by the right and the gap remains two. That could be huge for the chasing pack with Lee and Fitzpatrick about to take this hole on themselves...
WHERE TO MISS?
It is a drivable hole, the 14th, but it just doesn't seem like you can keep the ball on the putting surface. It's about where do you want to miss.
The final group all take aim but no one is successful at leaving themselves a putt. MacIntyre is off to the right of the green, Lee is long and right and Fitzpatrick is in the front-left bunker.
The Englishman complains as he walks down off the tee box: "Literally not one bounce has gone our way today." It's a hard life, eh, Matt?
GREAT RESPONSE
By the time he'd reached his ball, Fitzpatrick had calmed down suitably and produced a cracker of a bunker shot, leaving his ball within five feet.
Min Woo Lee does the same from the rough, so you might expect the gap to be reduced here...
ANOTHER PAR FOR KIM
At the par-3 15th, Kim goes to the back edge of the green off the tee but leaves his birdie putt at kick-in range. No drama there. Three to play.
BIRDIE BOYS
After surrounding the flag, Fitzpatrick and Lee roll their third shots home. The Australian is now only one back while Fitzpatrick is two.
THORBJORNSEN HUNTING OPEN SPOT
Michael Thorbjornsen sinks a second consecutive birdie at the 15th to reach even par for the day once more. It's a big move as well as he currently occupies the third and final Open exemption spot. He's T8th.
FINAL GROUP ON BOARD
Each of the final trio is around 30 feet away on the 15th green. Maybe one of them makes it, but I can quite easily see a hat-trick of threes being scribbled down very shortly.
WORLD CLASS
Tom Kim might have just iced this championship. From a shade over 200 yards, Kim crunches a 4-iron to no more than six feet at the 16th. It bounced in the heart of the putting surface and trickled on around towards the hole. That is clutch from Kim.
Tom Kim birdies the 16th to extend his lead to two 🔝#GenesisScottishOpen | #RolexSeries pic.twitter.com/D51iSiqnxMJuly 12, 2026
SO CLOSE
As predicted, the final group all walk off with threes, but Lee came closest to snatching a birdie from 25 feet or so. It curled around from right to left and looked good, but it was a few rolls short and he taps in for par.
KIM TWO AHEAD
Kim earns his just deserts at the 16th with a confident birdie effort. He is now up to six-under for the day and 17-under for the week. Two holes to go for the South Korean and it's a first win in 1,001 days.
GIR KING
Tom Kim had found 14 of 16 greens in regulation before standing on the 17th tee. Make that 15/17 now at the 195-yard par-3. It was close to the front bunker, mind, but Kim looks in complete control with his irons. If he knocks that in, the others are just playing for position...
WHEELS COMING OFF
The chasers are struggling towards the line here. Lee, MacIntyre and Fitzpatrick all send sub-par approaches into the 16th. MacIntyre's was the best as it's on the green, but it looks quite a long way back. Lee pulled his left into the rough from... the rough while Fitzpatrick shoved a long iron out through the back-right corner of the green.
BALLOON HAS BURST
Dr Chipinski need not be bothered by that effort, but it's still a fantastic try all the same from Lee. He might be able to get up and down now after flying his ball over the green-side pot bunker.
Fitzpatrick's chip is quite underwhelming as well, as is MacIntyre's putt. It's all a bit so so now as Fitzpatrick makes a bogey at the 16th from 20 feet.
NOT OVER
Min Woo Lee is still very much fighting for this title (alright Kevin Keegan). The Australian makes a sublime up-and-down to stay two back as Kim sees his birdie try at the 17th slide by the right edge.
The final group is on the 17th tee, but it's only really Lee who can do anything about Kim now. He needs a good one.
BIG DRIVE FROM KIM
Stood on the 18th tee, Kim's heart must have been pumping. His last win was in October 2023. Apparently that's 1,001 days ago. But he doesn't show any sign of nerves and rockets his drive down Broadway. One more good swing and this title is his.
KEEFER HEADING TO THE OPEN
Johnny Keefer has done what he set out to do today, at least partially, by qualifying for The Open. His rolls in a 10-foot par putt to stay at 13-under - good enough for a tie for third and one of the three Open exemptions. Good playing, Johnny.
CHANCE GONE?
Min Woo Lee has found the green at the 17th and he has maybe 25 feet left. It's a winding one, though, from left to right so it's certainly not likely to drop.
And it doesn't. It tamely trails down towards the hole but falls off to the right, and that might be a sign. Lee's chance appears to have gone.
MACINTYRE ROARING BACK
It's too late for a title charge, but MacIntyre has responded really well to a rough front nine today. His eagle earlier on kickstarted him back into life and the Scot has now added another birdie to reach 13-under in a tie for third.
PUTT TO WIN
Kim goes slightly long with his approach and is forced to chip back onto the green to leave anything for par.
Kim's attempt is decent, but he'll have five feet or so for the win. That is certainly not what he wants - a knee-knocker.
PRESSURE ON
Min Woo Lee absolutely launches a drive off the 18th tee and into the fairway down the last. That can't have much more than 150 yards left, if that. Tom Kim has a look back down the hole. I think he knows whose ball that is...
TOM KIM SETS CLUBHOUSE LEAD
Tom Kim may have won the Genesis Scottish Open. That is a clutch putt. Five feet left, and he took his time did the South Korean. Three looks at the hole. A slow draw back of the putter and a confident push. In it went for 17-under.
Min Woo Lee must now hole out or it's Tom Kim's title...
TOM KIM BACK IN THE WINNING CIRCLE 🏆#GenesisScottishOpen | #RolexSeries pic.twitter.com/HzaZGRcaqZJuly 12, 2026
TOM KIM WINS 2026 GENESIS SCOTTISH OPEN
Min Woo Lee goes long at the 18th from 164 yards and it is Tom Kim's title. The 24-year-old wins the 2026 Genesis Scottish Open!
FINAL PUTTS
MacIntyre and Fitzpatrick produce contrasting efforts on the final green to both walk away with pars. Min Woo Lee does likewise to take solo second.
And that's all she wrote, folks! Now, off to The Open Championship! Thanks for tuning in!
HEAR FROM THE CHAMPION
"I played as good as I could have down the stretch with the pressure. I executed when I needed to. I'm very proud of myself for being calm out there."The last putt, I've hit a similar putt like that a lot in my life, in practice so I just told myself it's the same at home. This… pic.twitter.com/1KLCCxsm8RJuly 12, 2026
