2026 Order of Merit Standings 

It was billed as one of the tightest fields of the season. A stacked leaderboard, a course known for mid-round carnage, and a count-back finale. Yet when the dust settled at the 2025 King’s Cup, it was Alan Duncan — the older of the Duncan brothers — who stood alone at the summit, trophy in hand and grin wide enough to stretch from the 1st tee to the 18th green.

The 2025 King’s Cup will be remembered not just for its thrilling count-back finish, but for the tapestry of player narratives that wove through the field at Canmore Golf Club. From a brotherly duel under pressure to a late-season surge in the Order of Merit race, the post-round reflections reveal a field full of admiration, frustration, and determination. As the sun set over one of Scotland’s quirkiest and most challenging tracks, the voices of the players told a compelling story of what unfolded.

As the players arrived to warm and balmy conditions at Canmore Golf Club, the EuroDov Tour delivered another unforgettable chapter in its storied 2025 season. The King’s Cup, the fifth event of the 2025 Order of Merit, brought a field of seasoned campaigners and rising challengers to the deceptively demanding Canmore Golf Club — and what unfolded was a classic of calculation, composure, and brotherly competitio

As summer fades into the amber hues of late August, the EuroDov Tour’s regular season prepares to close its chapter with one last test: the 2025 Forrester-Lochgelly Open (FLO). Held on Sunday 17th August, the narrow fairways and glassy greens of Lochgelly Golf Course have long had a say in shaping seasons — and this event will not only determine the Standings in the Order of Merit as the players head to the Tour Champs but could also etch another name into the annals of tour legend.

The James Braid Quaich has always been more than just a trophy. It is the Tour’s ultimate marker of consistency, resilience, and brilliance across a season, the silver bowl every EuroDov golfer imagines lifting on a late-summer afternoon when the winds whip off the Firth of Forth.

What had been framed as McColgan’s march to another title instead became a story of transformation: a record-breaking Tour Championship, a new name on the Quaich, and perhaps the passing of an era.

Every so often, the EuroDov Tour produces a result that shifts the landscape. A new name, a new standard, a new story to etch into its folklore. At the 2025 Tour Championships, that name was Scott Gowens.

The EuroDov Tour’s Order of Merit season reached its crescendo at Craigielaw Golf Club in East Lothian, a venue bathed in rare perfection. Links golf is usually defined by the lash of the wind, the bounce of the ball on sun-scorched fairways, or the brooding skies that roll in from the Firth of Forth.

The James Braid Quaich has a habit of producing late twists. In 2023, Richard Mair fell short by a whisker. In 2024, Daniel Peck’s charge fizzled in the final round. In 2025, the stage is set for another drama.

Craigielaw is no ordinary course. Perched on the East Lothian coast, it demands discipline, nerve, and imagination. The fairways run fast and true, the greens are subtly contoured, and the wind is a constant companion.

It is, in many ways, the perfect decider. A place where leaders can be punished for caution, where chasers can seize momentum, and where no advantage is ever entirely safe.

Every sporting calendar has its culmination. For football, it is the Champions League Final. For tennis, Wimbledon. For the EuroDov Tour — the fast-growing Scottish amateur circuit that has built a fierce reputation for drama and rivalry — it is the Tour Championship.

On Friday 22nd August, Craigielaw Golf Club will once again play host to the defining moment of the season. Thirteen players, whittled down through months of competition across St Andrews, Kinghorn, Pitfirrane, Burntisland, Canmore, and Lochgelly, will face off in East Lothian’s salt-whipped winds for the Tour’s ultimate prize.

The standings tell the story of a season where margins mattered more than ever. McColgan may lead, but the gap is narrow enough for Gowens, Peck, or Allan to dream. Alan and Denis Duncan, buoyed by their summer form, could yet upset the hierarchy. And Mair remains the perennial question mark: will brilliance finally convert into silverware?

As the regular season fades into history, all roads now lead to Craigielaw. The Tour Championship awaits, promising one final examination, one last chance for glory. If the season so far has taught us anything, it’s that nothing can be taken for granted.

The 2025 Order of Merit is alive with possibility, and the biggest stage of all is yet to come.

From Gowens’ calm persistence to Allan’s fireworks, from Greenshields’ gallows humour to Duncan’s grit, and McNeill’s sharp wit, the FLO was as much about voices as numbers.

Yes, it was McColgan’s trophy, claimed in dramatic fashion on countback. But the tapestry of the day was woven by all. The FLO remains special not just because it crowns champions, but because it reveals character.

At Lochgelly, McColgan once again showed why he is the Tour’s standard-bearer. Composed under pressure, ruthless on the greens, and grounded in his roots, he turned a tight duel into another personal triumph. With the biggest stage of the year still to come, he is not just the FLO champion — he is the man to beat.

For the Tour, it was the perfect closing act to a regular season of twists and turns. The Order of Merit now heads into the Tour Champs with storylines everywhere: McColgan’s supremacy, Mair’s resilience, Gowens’ resurgence, Brannan’s form, and Allan’s rise.

The FLO once again reminded us why it matters. Why it will continue to matter. And why, on a sun-soaked Sunday in Fife, history once again found its author.

And this time, the name etched into stone was David McColgan — Forrester-Lochgelly Open Champion, 2025.

Paul Gowens is the EuroDov Tour – Champion Golfer of the Year - built on a season of relentless consistency: 2nd at St Andrews, 6th at Kinghorn, 1st at Pitfirrane, 8th at Canmore, 2nd at Lochgelly, 2nd at Craigielaw.

On the sun-kissed links of East Lothian, the Quaich finally found his hands. And the Tour, as it so often does, found a story worthy of its history.

The Firth of Forth coastline once again served as a proving ground for one of the EuroDov Tour’s most enduring contests. Across the hilly fairways of Kinghorn, the rugged elegance of Pitfirrane, and the wind-brushed greens of Burntisland, the 2025 Inchkeith Cup unfolded in classic Scottish fashion — unpredictable, competitive, and entirely compelling.

Seventeen players entered the three-course gauntlet, but only one would leave hoisting the trophy awarded for the best net score to par across two of the three rounds. With the final putt dropped and calculators consulted, David McColgan emerged victorious, edging out Richard Mair in a dramatic tiebreak decided — as per tradition — at Burntisland.

The EuroDov Tour descended upon the picturesque, yet punishing, Burntisland Golf House Club this past Sunday for the 2025 Dodhead Invitational. This event has historically belonged to a select few, with Stuart Allan and David McColgan being the only two players to have their names etched on the trophy in its four-year history. However, 2025 saw a new champion crowned in a finish that had galleries buzzing and players reflecting on a truly challenging day on the course.

While the course itself was presented in immaculate condition – with fairways described as perfect, rough tight and punishing, and greens rolling like a dream – the weather was the undeniable headline-grabber.

The EuroDov Tour was back in action this week with the Dodhead Invitational at Burntisland Golf House Club.

The event has very, very small group of winners with only 2 players etching their name on the trophy in the four-year history of the tournament – Stuart Allan and David McColgan. So, it was no surprise to see EuroDov Reporter backing them to be near the top of the leaderboard in 2025.

However – in 2025 leaderboards have been tighter than a fairway in a cross wind, and we had plenty of those today, and there were plenty of players who fancied their chances around Burntisland.

The EuroDov Tour witnessed a thrilling conclusion at the Burntisland Golf House Club this past Sunday, as Kevin Brannan emerged victorious at the 2025 Dodhead Invitational. In a tournament defined by its notoriously small winner's circle, previously etched with only two names, Stuart Allan and David McColgan, Brannan added his own to the trophy after a dramatic finish.

Following the completion of the Dodhead Invitational the EuroDov Tour takes its usual hiatus as players focus on off-Tour commitments across the country.

But whilst players are off ploughing non-Tour endeavours, we’re here crunching the numbers and looking at the events on the horizon. With four regular season events in the bag for the 2025 Order of Merit, the King’s Cup, on July 20th marks an acceleration point or the Race to Craigielaw. Within the space of a month the Tour will host the King’s Cup, the Forrester-Lochgelly Open and finish with the Tour Champs which will see the Champion Golfer of the Year crowned. And every point won along the way will be crucial.

As ever EuroDov Reporter has been pouring over the data to bring you their predictions for the King's Cup so sit back and take it all in.

As the 2025 EuroDov Tour season kicked off, while some eyes naturally gravitated towards the Order of Merit, the real grit and grind, the fight for future status, was always going to be in Q-School1. This season-long competition offers a golden ticket – direct access to the Order of Merit for the victor and runner-up.

Following a tight 4-man race in 2024 that saw Scott Gowens and Greig Baxter earn their spots, the 2025 field expanded, featuring six players vying for those two coveted positions.

With the St Andrews Open in the can the Tour makes its way down the Fife coast to the Old Tom Morris design Kinghorn Golf Course.

The Kinghorn Classic has been played at Kinghorn since its inception in 2021 and has been won by three different players in that time. McColgan won the first two tournaments before Stevie Orr set the tournament record with an incredibly 60 and in 2024 Stuart Sutherland built on his maiden win at the St Andrews Open to win two events on the trot.

To say Kinghorn is not the most favoured course on Tour is probably an understatement. We’ve had players flat out refuse to even tee it up choosing to forgo the ranking points rather than endure the round.

That’s the second event of the season in the bag and the Kinghorn Classic didn’t disappoint. We had firm and fast fairways, super firm greens, enough weather to make it a challenge and a leaderboard that was up and down like an old-fashioned rollercoaster.

5 out of the top 6 players in the Order of Merit Standings held the lead at one point or another, but the man who was standing atop of both in the end was a familiar face in David McColgan.

We caught up with his three closest challengers in Paul Gowens, Richard Mair and Stevie Orr to get their views on proceedings out there.

The drive from St Andrews to Kinghorn is always met with great excitement. The tournament has been won by three players in four years, and the leaderboard is as predictable as the fairway bounce out there.

We had a highly competitive field at St Andrews for the opening event, and we knew that the form of the players would create an exciting atmosphere out on the course.

As ever Kinghorn was buffeted with a gentle breeze, not quite the hurricane conditions of years gone by, and the fairways and greens were baked hard and rolling fast – like really, really, fast!

The drive down the Fife coast from St Andrews to Kinghorn is glorious, and this year it was bathed in brilliant sunshine and just the lightest of breeze. Many a year have we made the trip in driving wind and rain and watched as the players took to the links from the comfort of the locker room.

However, in 2025, the players went to battle on a tough, firm and fast course that was going to test everyone’s game. We had it all as well, chip ins, and chip ins again, late runs up the leaderboard and late collapses as well. But when all was said and done it was a familiar face standing on the 18th green with trophy in hand, and following back-to-back runner-up spots to start the season, David McColgan had claimed back-to-back wins.

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.

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

With three events down and three to go, the OoM Tour has reached the halfway house—and much like a misread putt, no one is entirely sure which way the leaderboard is going to break next. One thing is for certain: the fairways have been fierce, the banter blazing, and the competition closer than a packed clubhouse on a rainy day.

We caught up with a few of the tour regulars for a midseason reflection, and let’s just say the answers ranged from tactical to tragicomic. Here’s how the field is feeling as we turn for home.

As the Order of Merit regular season hit the halfway point it signalled the move away from the tough and firm links courses of the previous two events and on to the lush and tree lined parkland courses of West Fife.

The field were met with sun-kissed fairways of Dunfermline Golf Club for the 2025 MCM @ Pitffirane and Tour observers bore witness to a clinical performance by Paul Gowens, who emerged victorious with a four-under-par 68, topping a competitive field by a single stroke.

The contest was a rollercoaster of momentum, with leads exchanged and exceptional golf displayed across all 18 holes.

The From the Locker Room boys always love a trip to Dunfermline – firstly, it marks the end of the links season, and we get to shelter in the salubrious treelined fairways of Pitffirane, and of course, the clubhouse is a castle. Come on…what’s not to love!

However, it was a windy, but sunny day out on the course, and the players were contending with the swirling winds right off the bat. The conditions, and the ever competitive field made for an exciting day but it was a familiar feeling but no less sweet for Paul Gowens, who captured his second MCM title.

The Order of Merit regular season hit the halfway point in May with the conclusion of the MCM @ Pitfirrane. So, far this year the competition across the field has been highly competitive and this is reflected in the overall Order of Merit standings, with just 1,350 points separating the top 5 players.

The field turn their attention to the Dodhead Invitational, played at Burntisland Golf Club. This event has been characterised most years by a runaway leader, who has just blown the field wide open and left all standing in their wake. Also, oddly it is the only event in the Order of Merit that has been won by the same two players ever year.

EuroDov Reporter sat down and poured over the data to bring you their predictions for the 2025 Dodhead Invitational.

Jim returns in 2025 after having to cut his season short in 2024 due to health issues. I think it’s an understatement to say that everyone is delighted to have him back and he is one of a few players who people are always happy to see on their tee time.

His laid-back approach to the game and his compete for fun makes him the perfect partner to walk the course with and to have him back on Tour is fantastic.