The Order of Merit season is now in full swing and the Tour now swings inland and away from the tough and firm links to a more green and fertile parkland.

The first stop in 2025 is Dunfermline Golf Club and the parkland course at Pitffirane. The tree lined course meanders along slightly undulating fairways offering the players a bit more cushion under foot and a totally different bounce.

The greens whilst fast are that little bit more receptive and a chance to really attack pins that are in favorable positions from the fairway.

The MCM has had three homes since 2021, and three winners as well, with Richard Mair aiming to be the first player in Tour history to win the same Order of Merit event three years in a row.

The season kicked off with McColgan claiming both of the opening events, the first time he’s won either of them in two years and he’ll be looking to make it three in a row, something no one has managed ever in the history of the Order of Merit. However, there is a whole host of players waiting to stop him, and with close leaderboards in the first two events the odds are firmly in favour of the field.

EuroDov Reporter has had a look at the form book and the field and presented their predictions for the third OoM event of 2025.

Richard Mair
Odds: 7/2
Notes: We love a bit of history at the EuroDov Tour and we’re backing Mair to do it on the 18th.
He’s made a habit of finishing runner-up at the Invitational and then bouncing back with a win at the MCM, then going on to lose the Carnegie Cup as part of the SanWedge Tour team.

Mair’s game is solid, it’s boring (as he gets told frequently) but boring wins championships on the EuroDov Tour and we have our money on Mair at the MCM.

Stuart Allan, Paul Gowens & Daniel Peck
Odds: 3/1
Notes: Ok couple of different reasons here.

Allan and Gowens are members at Pitffirane and know this course better than most of the field. They are both playing some good golf and that familiarity can only breed confidence come tournament day.

Peck has seen his handicap climb in recent months, but he can play to it and his scores are consistent, he’s due a low round and the MCM might just be the place he does it.

David McColgan, Stevie Orr & Stuart Sutherland
Odds: 4/1
Notes: Ok McColgan has won two straight events on the Order of Merit so sticking him down here seems ludicrous, however, he’s never won the MCM and that’s got to be playing on his mind, plus the ever tightening leaderboard needs to overtake him at some point and it might just be this week.

Orr and Sutherland have as good a chance as any player of overtaking McColgan. They’ve both won OoM events, they’ve both been in the hunt in 2025, why not now?

Denis Duncan, Alan Duncan, Ally Greenshields & Callum McNeill
Odds: 5/1
Notes: The Duncan brothers are members at Pitffirane, and they have all the tools to win around here, the comfort of a home match has to be a prospect they both relish and don’t be surprised to see either of them in the winners’ circle again.

Greenshields has the round in him, he manages to produce it in 36-hole competitions and needs to bring that reckless abandonment to the 18-hole format, he has the game to win around Pitffirane.

McNeill needs to start the tournament with the belief he’ll win it; he’s a confidence player who can tear up courses in front of him, but his continual disbelief harms his game. He should remember his Major winning performance in 2023 and apply that to the OoM.

Greig Baxter, Scott Gowens & Jim Robertson
Odds: 7/1
Notes: Ok let’s go one at a time.

Baxter is suffering from a low handicap and lack of golf. He might need to see that handicap climb a bit to offset his lack of game time. However, we all know he can play, and he can win, he just needs it all to come together.

Gowens Jnr. has made the leap from Q-School and made it well, he won the Q-School event here in 2024, if he can channel that energy there is no reason he can’t be holding the trophy at the end of the day.

Robertson is still building back after his health scare in 2024, but Pitffirane might be the place he makes a leap up the leaderboard. It’s not too long, and his accuracy off the tee will help him on the tree lined fairways, don’t be surprised to see Robertson climb the leaderboard.

Well, there we have it folks, EuroDov Reporter’s prediction for the 2025 MCM @ Pitffirane. Make sure to tune in on Sunday 18th May for all the news, insight and analysis from EuroDov Reporter and From the Locker Room.