Kingsbarns Lands Womens British; Other Links Tourney News

It's been a busy week in Scotland, capped off by today's naming of Kingsbarns as host of the 2017 Women's British Open. Martin Dempster reports.

Dempster also reported a move mirroring the highly successful one-two links punch of the Scottish Open and Open Championship, the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish will be played the week prior to the Women's at Dundonald Links.

And speaking of Dundonald, Dempster writes that Aberdeen Asset Management and the European Tour are looking at a men's Scottish Open extension to 2020, with Gullane hosting next year, Castle Stuart in 2016 and Dundonald on the radar in 2017.

How refreshing to see the combination of a strong sponsor understanding the greatest asset you can have--great links golf--and providing the opportunity for the world to see so many links.  Even better, we hopefully have moved on from the view of players that two weeks of links golf could be dangerous for their games.