Martin Dempster at Scottish Open on Tuesday

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00:00Hello it's Martin Dempster the Scotsman Golf Correspondent here coming to you from the first

00:07tee at the Renaissance Club venue for this week's nine million dollar Rolex series event. Today

00:16in the media centre Conor Syme the recent KLM Open winner his first victory on the DP World Tour

00:24he spoke to journalists about that success about a good record he's got in this event he tied for

00:3215th behind Bob McIntyre last year and also gave some interesting thoughts on the state of Scottish

00:40golf at the moment in terms of funding etc recalled his experiences as he came through the amateur

00:47ranks and that's worth reading about in the the Scotsman either online or in the paper Xander

00:55Shoffley the winner in 2022 and the current Open champion he was also in the media centre he's

01:02had a pretty tough 2025 so far he was injured early in the year has had some swing issues recently and

01:10he's just looking for a wee boost this week going into his claret jug defence at Royal Portrush next

01:17week on Wednesday we've got the aforementioned McIntyre the defending champion world number one

01:24Scottish Heffler second ranked Rory McIlroy all coming in to the media centre so certainly lots to be

01:35talked about when they've done that and then of course Friday Thursday the the first round of this

01:43DP World and PGA Tour co-sanctioned event with McIntyre and Sheffler is set to be in the same group

01:50in the opening two days to keep up to date with everything about the Genesis Scottish Open log on

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