Six Scottish golfers to watch in 2026 including St Andrews 14y/o and DP World Tour hopefuls

Here are six players away from the DP World Tour and LPGA to keep an eye on next year.

Calum Fyfe

Like Daniel Young did over a period of time before securing his step up at the end of last season, the Glaswegian has started to find his feet on the HotelPlanner Tour. He made it to the Rolex Grand Final supported by The R&A for the first time in 2025 and gave a good account of himself in the season-ending event at Club de Golf Alcanada in Mallorca. “All I am trying to do is provide for my family and the best way for me to do that is to get on the DP World Tour,” Fyfe declared to The Scotsman. “So I just need to keep working hard and try and get off here next year.”

Carly McDonald

It’s no surprise that the 14-year-old from St Andrews has been short-listed for the Amateur of the Year prize in the 2026 Scottish Golf Awards, having won the Scottish Girls’ Amateur Championship and the Scottish Girls’ Order of Merit in 2025. She also represented both Scotland and Great Britain & Ireland and certainly looks as though she can follow in the footsteps of Hannah Darling, Louise Duncan and Lorna McClymont in recent years by pushing for a Curtis Cup spot in the near future.

Gregor Graham

In his rookie season in the professional ranks, the big Blairgowrie man was hampered by a wrist injury before producing some good stuff towards the end of the 2025 campaign. He came through two stages to play in the DP World Qualifying School Final in Spain for the first time and, by making the 72-hole cut, he secured a full card for the 2026 HotelPlanner Tour. The 22-year-old looks as though he has the game to make his presence felt on the second-tier circuit and eventually be securing a seat at the top table in European golf.

Finlay Galloway

Iain MacFarlane, Scottish Golf’s media manager and a good player himself, raved to me about Galloway, a St Andrews youngster, who won the Scottish Boys’ Championship at Blairgowrie in July before going on to claim the Scottish Golf Boys’ Order of Merit title as well. He looks as though he could be the pick of the bunch among the latest crop of talented teenagers in the Scottish game and hopefully he can get into events like the Lytham Trophy, Brabazon Trophy and St Andrews Links Trophy in 2026 - he is currently on a gap year before going to the University of Minnesota in August - and gain valuable experience playing against the best amateurs in Great Britain and Ireland and beyond.

Hannah Darling

We’ve all had high hopes for the Broomieknowe player since she burst on to the scene by winning back-to-back Scottish Girls’ titles in 2017 and 2018 then becoming the first player to claim The R&A Girls’ Under-16 Amateur Championship in 2018. After turning professional in July, she suffered an early disappointment when falling at the first hurdle in the LPGA Q-Series. However, she re-grouped for the LET’s Lalla Aicha Qualifying School in Morocco and can look forward to a first full season in the paid ranks with a Category 12 card after producing a brilliant performance to finish joint-fifth.

Kai Laing

Following in the footsteps of Hannah Darling by coming through the junior ranks at Broomieknowe, he finished his 2025 strongly by winning the Stephen Gallacher Foundation Race to Dubai event with a fine 68 in testing conditions at the East Lothian venue. He then produced an equally impressive display when finishing second to England’s Charlie Rusbridge in the Justin Rose Telegraph Junior Championship at Quinta do Lago in Portugal. Laing will have been inspired by seeing Cameron Adam, who started out with the Stephen Gallacher Foundation as a “nipper”, now being a DP World Tour card holder after winning the Global Amateur Pathway.