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September 7th is a date engrained in EuroDov Tour folklore.

It was on this day in 2013 the genesis of the Tour was founded, 12 players gathered on the first tee of the Montgomery Course to play a match that would be the very foundation of today’s EuroDov Tour.

In 2024, that number had grown to 24, and they stood on the same hallowed turf ready to compete in the 10th RyDov Cup match.

It was an atmospheric morning as fog swept across the course and players would be forgiven for seeing the ghosts of RyDov past on the fairways and greens in front of them.

On the 7th September 2013 the inaugural event of what would become the EuroDov Tour was held.

12 players gathered at Kinross Golf Courses for a 6 v 6 match with singles matchplay in the morning and greensomes matchplay in the afternoon, in what would become to be known the RyDov Cup.

As we approach the 10th playing of the RyDov Cup, we unleashed EuroDov Reporter on the archive books to bring you a ‘Where are they now’ analysis of the Founders.

So, sit back and enjoy some EuroDov Tour history.

It’s always great to return to the birthplace of the Tour and as the 10th playing of the oldest Major on Tour got underway there was an eerie mist shrouding the course and one would be forgiven for thinking they could see the ghosts of RyDov past roaming the hallowed turf.

And as Sutherland marched up the 18th fairway with the ghosts of winners such as Cunningham and McColgan, Hardie and Kinnear in his wake he joined two very special clubs firstly a EuroDov Tour Major winner and secondly a winner of questionably the hardest Major of them all the Montgomery Cup.

After analysing all 12 singles matchups they have it poised at 6-6, with Team Gowens winning the final match – important because the team that wins that match has gone on to win the cup 67% of the time.

Let’s unleash EuroDov Reporter on the stat books for one more time and see what they have to say on the 6 Greensomes matches and where the RyDov Cup will be headed after the close of play.

Match 5 features Kevin Brannan & David McColgan v Ally Greenshields & Callum McNeill.

After analysing all 12 singles matchups they have it poised at 6-6, with Team Gowens winning the final match – important because the team that wins that match has gone on to win the cup 67% of the time.

Let’s unleash EuroDov Reporter on the stat books for one more time and see what they have to say on the 6 Greensomes matches and where the RyDov Cup will be headed after the close of play.

Match 4 features Barry Cunningham & Stuart Sutherland v Stuart Anderson & Rory Malloch.

After analysing all 12 singles matchups they have it poised at 6-6, with Team Gowens winning the final match – important because the team that wins that match has gone on to win the cup 67% of the time.

Let’s unleash EuroDov Reporter on the stat books for one more time and see what they have to say on the 6 Greensomes matches and where the RyDov Cup will be headed after the close of play.

Match 3 features Denis Duncan & Daniel Peck v Andy McGregor & Stevie Orr.

After analysing all 12 singles matchups they have it poised at 6-6, with Team Gowens winning the final match – important because the team that wins that match has gone on to win the cup 67% of the time.

Let’s unleash EuroDov Reporter on the stat books for one more time and see what they have to say on the 6 Greensomes matches and where the RyDov Cup will be headed after the close of play.

Match 2 features Stuart Allan & Alan Duncan v Scott Gowens & Graeme Rose.

After analysing all 12 singles matchups they have it poised at 6-6, with Team Gowens winning the final match – important because the team that wins that match has gone on to win the cup 67% of the time.

Let’s unleash EuroDov Reporter on the stat books for one more time and see what they have to say on the 6 Greensomes matches and where the RyDov Cup will be headed after the close of play.

Match 1 features Greg Baxter & Andy Love v Graeme Connor & Richard Mair.

After analysing all 12 singles matchups they have it poised at 6-6, with Team Gowens winning the final match – important because the team that wins that match has gone on to win the cup 67% of the time.

Let’s unleash EuroDov Reporter on the stat books for one more time and see what they have to say on the 6 Greensomes matches and where the RyDov Cup will be headed after the close of play.

Match 6 is the final match on the course, and it features John Hedges & Stephen Hedges v Paul Gowens and Joel Morrison.

Match 11 in the morning singles features David McColgan v Joel Morrison.

Could this one be any more opposite – ever-present RyDov Cupper versus rookie, 24 x Tour winner v no-wins.

McColgan will make his 10th appearance at the RyDov Cup, standing alongside Stuart Sutherland as the only players to appear in all matches (notable mention for Stephen Hedges who has played in 100% of the matches since his debut in 2016.)

Match 9 in the morning singles features Stuart Sutherland v Callum McNeill.

Well, this one is quite the match-up.

We’ve got RyDov Cup ever-present Stuart Sutherland versus Callum McNeill making just his 3rd appearance.

Let’s look at the history books. Sutherland has won 5.5 points in his 9 appearances, a win rate of 61%. McNeill has won 1.5 points a point win rate of 75% - he has never lost a match in his two appearances.

Match 8 in the morning singles features Kevin Brannan v Stuart Anderson.

This is another David v Goliath match. We’ve got 8-time RyDov Cupper Kevin Brannan playing against Stuart Anderson making his second appearance.

Match 7 in the morning singles features Denis Duncan v Rory Malloch.

Ok so we know the story of the rookies, and their struggle to win on their debut, but you’re going to need to hear me out here.

Rory Malloch has joined the Tour in 2024, and whilst he’s a rookie in the RyDov he’s made a number of appearances on Tour including playing for the EuroDov Team at the 2024 Carnegie Cup, playing Q-School and winning the Anstruther Plate.

Match 6 in the morning singles features Barry Cunningham v Andy McGregor

This is a replay of the 2022 RyDov Cup singles and it’s on the same course. That time it was a tightly fought affair with Cunningham coming out on top 1Up.

Will history repeat itself?

Match 5 in the morning singles features Alan Duncan v Stevie Orr.

Let’s lay this out here straight away, this will be Orr’s first game back since the birth of his first child, will his game be close to that of the King’s Cup, where he tore the field up?

This should be a fairly entertaining match and it has many variations depending on what Alan Duncan and what Stevie Orr turns up.

Match 4 in the morning singles features Daniel Peck v Scott Gowens.

Match 4 is where our first RyDov debutant features. Scott Gowens may sound familiar to those who follow the Tour closely, he is the son of 2022 rookie of the year Paul Gowens, but he’s also the winner of the 2023 Anstruther Plate and is currently sitting 3rd in Q-School after a fantastic season. In fact, so good is his Q-School season he sits in 6th qualifying spot for the EuroDov Tour 2025 Carnegie Cup squad.

Match 3 in the morning singles features Greig Baxter v Graeme Rose.

This is the golfer’s game. Two players with strong youth pedigrees, facing off against each other in what will undoubtedly be a spectacle to watch.

We’ve heard the team announcement, we’ve witnessed the verbal sparring of the Captains, now we’ve unleashed EuroDov Reporter on 9 years’ worth of RyDov Cup records and thousands of sheets of data from Tour events to give us a blow by blow prediction from each match so sit back, enjoy and get ready to argue your case against EuroDov Reporter.

Match 2 in the morning singles features Stuart Allan v Richard Mair.

Match 1 in the morning singles features Andy Love v Graeme Connor.

Love has done exactly what everyone expected and led from the front. In 2023 when he was the challenging Captain, he took the exact same approach and won 4&3 to set the standard for Team Love.

That year he faced defending Captain Kevin Brannan, but in 2024 he’ll play Team Gowens’ Vice Captain, Graeme Connor.

Match 10 in the morning singles features Stephen Hedges v Ally Greenshields.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man…who can forget Stephen Hedges heroics over the last three holes of the 2023 RyDov Cup. If Andy Love was ever looking for a talisman at the bottom of the order here he is.

This is such a contrasting match up. The bombastic Ally Greenshields, who possesses the ability to play some dazzling golf, with his carefree and easy going attitude, but equally feels just millimetres from disaster against the methodical and centred Stephen Hedges, who favours middle of the fairway tee shots, and punch and runs on to the green.

On the first Saturday of September in 2013, 12 players gathered to play a match that would go down in history as the starting point of a legacy that would stretch to this very day.

As we look back at the event 7 of the 12 players are still active on the EuroDov Tour, but none of them could have foreseen the competition, challenge and camaraderie that has grown from that day to this.

In September 2024, 24 players will step on to the same turf, strike the same opening shot, and the memory of 2013, those players past and present, and all in the endeavour of winning the RyDov Cup.

Match 12 in the morning singles features John Hedges v Paul Gowens.

In 6 of the last 9 RyDov Cups the team that wins the final match in the morning goes on to win the Cup. Momentum, as they say, is key.

So, match 12 isn’t just the end of the order, it’s the start of the afternoon battles. Head into lunch with the win and your team is lifted for the morning session.

The ninth playing of the RyDov Cup gave us loads of stories and images that will go down in the history of the tournament.

However, nothing tells the whole story like the cold hard numbers behind it all, and this year certainly changed the RyDov Cup landscape for a few years to come. Let’s take a look at 9 tournaments of stats and see what they tell us.

The “shot heard around the world” was coined at the start of the American revolutionary war against the British in 1775. It was later used when Bobby Thomson hit a walk off home run in the 1951 National League pennant at the Polo Grounds in New York.

It is a phrase that has come to be synonymous with monumental moments in history and in 2023 it’s use was further elevated in the echelons on of history when Stephen Hedges hit the “shots that were heard around the world.”

EuroDov Reporter covered the events of the entire tournament and the nail-biting end to the ninth playing of the RyDov Cup but the From the Locker Room team want to take you back over the final 3 holes of the day and the monumental battle the raged on for the sake of the RyDov Cup.

10 years on since the infamous ‘Collapse at Kinross’ 24 players arrived at the spiritual home of the EuroDov Tour determined to write their names in the history books.

Led out by 2 players who took part in the very first match, Andy Love and Kevin Brannan were poised for a monumental battle over the day.

When the Captain’s set out their line-ups we were given the glimpse of some tasty matches, and none more so than the opening match which saw Captain v Captain. As the opening tee shots were sent down the par 3 first, the match was underway, and the excitement built.

In 8 RyDov Cups the team leading in the morning has gone on to win the Cup, but three times the afternoon matches have overturned the result, and none more famously than the 2013 and 206 editions where Team Dov overturned a 4.5 – 1.5 deficit to win 7.5 – 4.5 and a 4-2 deficit to retain the Cup 6-6.

The afternoon matches matter and with such a tight morning session they could be crucial so let’s take a look at each match, and EuroDov Reporter’s insight.

So, let’s get down to match 17.

In 8 RyDov Cups the team leading in the morning has gone on to win the Cup, but three times the afternoon matches have overturned the result, and none more famously than the 2013 and 206 editions where Team Dov overturned a 4.5 – 1.5 deficit to win 7.5 – 4.5 and a 4-2 deficit to retain the Cup 6-6.

The afternoon matches matter and with such a tight morning session they could be crucial so let’s take a look at each match, and EuroDov Reporter’s insight.

So, let’s get down to match 16.

In 8 RyDov Cups the team leading in the morning has gone on to win the Cup, but three times the afternoon matches have overturned the result, and none more famously than the 2013 and 206 editions where Team Dov overturned a 4.5 – 1.5 deficit to win 7.5 – 4.5 and a 4-2 deficit to retain the Cup 6-6.

The afternoon matches matter and with such a tight morning session they could be crucial so let’s take a look at each match, and EuroDov Reporter’s insight.

So, let’s get down to match 15.

In 8 RyDov Cups the team leading in the morning has gone on to win the Cup, but three times the afternoon matches have overturned the result, and none more famously than the 2013 and 206 editions where Team Dov overturned a 4.5 – 1.5 deficit to win 7.5 – 4.5 and a 4-2 deficit to retain the Cup 6-6.

The afternoon matches matter and with such a tight morning session they could be crucial so let’s take a look at each match, and EuroDov Reporter’s insight.

So, let’s get down to match 14.

In 8 RyDov Cups the team leading in the morning has gone on to win the Cup, but three times the afternoon matches have overturned the result, and none more famously than the 2013 and 206 editions where Team Dov overturned a 4.5 – 1.5 deficit to win 7.5 – 4.5 and a 4-2 deficit to retain the Cup 6-6.

The afternoon matches matter and with such a tight morning session they could be crucial so let’s take a look at each match, and EuroDov Reporter's insight.

So, let’s get down to match 13.