Ian Poulter to play in multiple DP World Tour events over the summer - not just the Scottish Open

So much for Ian Poulter being cast out into the golfing wilderness for joining the Saudi rebel circuit. Not only will the Ryder Cup hero tee it up here in the Scottish Open after winning an 11th-hour reprieve on his ban, but he will take the opportunity to play in multiple events on the DP World Tour over the summer.

It says so much about the size of the waves the LIV Golf Series has created in this once calm sport that even with 14 of the world's top 15 competing, all eyes will be on the golfer ranked 100th in Thursday's first round. 

Poulter, 46, refused to accept his home Tour's suspension from this $8million tournament and took the matter to court on Monday. In an unprecedented judgement, circuit judge Phillip Sycamore granted Poulter a stay of suspension with the major ruling still to come. 

Three other rebels - South Africans Branden Grace and Justin Harding and Spaniard Adrian Otaegui - have also been reinstated, a scenario which Keith Pelley called "disappointing". 

However, with the definitive verdict expected to take at least three months to reach, the DP World Tour chief executive has accepted that, in this intervening period, he will simply have to allow the LIV players to carry on competing. 

This will be useful for Poulter as well as the likes of Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia as they have indefinite bans on the PGA Tour and would otherwise have nowhere to play during August as the LIV Golf Series has a five-week break in between its third and fourth events.

"I plan to play the Czech Open and after The Open [next week] may add in an event on the British swing [there are another four UK tournaments in a row after St Andrews]," Poulter said here. "I haven't actually sat down and worked it out yet. I'll also