Scottish Open Tent Flies Off In Storm Hector Winds

The VIP tent at Gullane flew off and was was destroyed in extreme winds

Scottish Open Tent Flies Off In Storm Hector Winds

The VIP tent at Gullane flew off and was was destroyed today in extreme winds

Scottish Open Tent Flies Off In Storm Hector Winds

The Scottish Open takes place at Gullane next month and they'll be needing a new VIP tent after it flew off and was completely destroyed in Storm Hector gusts.

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Winds were reaching 70mph across Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland.

The winds may look tough at Shinnecock Hills in the US Open but these are a completely different beast.

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The Scottish Open takes place at the East Lothian links next month again after hosting in 2015 when Rickie Fowler won.

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Elliott Heath
News Editor

Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!


Elliott is currently playing:


Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV