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Scotsman
3 hours ago
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- Scotsman
Huge Ryder Cup boost for Bob MacIntyre on back of top-ten finish in The Open
Scot now sits second behind Rory McIlroy on points list for Bethpage Black encounter Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Bob MacIntyre is up to second behind Rory McIlroy on Europe's points list for the Ryder Cup after his top-ten finish in The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush. The Oban man, who'd started the week in third spot, jumped above Tommy Fleetwood on the back of his strong performance in Northern Ireland. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Bob MacIntyre reacts after a missed putt on the 18th green during day four of The 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush |Career grand slam winner McIlroy has already secured his automatic spot, with MacIntyre, who made his debut in the biennial event in Rome in 2023, getting close to doing likewise. Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Shane Lowry and Sepp Straka are the other players in automatic spots after the season's final major. Rasmus Hojgaard, Justin Rose, Ludvig Aberg, Viktor Hovland, Thomas Detry and Matt Wallace are next on the points list, with Matt Fitzpatrick up to 13th after his top-five finish in Northern Ireland. The qualifying race ends after the Betfred British Masters and Tour Championship in the US on 24 August. Luke Donald, the European captain, will then announce his six picks on 1 September. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Meanwhile, MacIntyre picked up close to $452,000 for his week's work in The Open, taking his season's earnings on the PGA Tour to around $5.7 million. Having now recorded five top-ten finishes this year, he's jumped five spots to 15th on the FedEx Cup points list. He'd already secured his spot in the FedEx St Jude Championship in Memphis, the opening FedEx Cup Play-Off event, next month. His spot has also now been guaranteed in the BMW Championship in Maryland while it is looking good as well now for the Tour Championship in Atlanta, where the top 30 players will battle it out in the season finale.
Daily Record
15 hours ago
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- Daily Record
Bob MacIntyre harshly marks his top 10 finish at The Open and shows the world his insatiable desire to win
The Scottish star says the frustration he feels despite another huge result in a big one provides more concrete evidence he's on the way Bob MacIntyre believes it's a matter of time before he wins a Major. And the Scottish star says the frustration he feels despite another huge result in a big one provides more concrete evidence he's on the way. MacIntyre produced a barnstorming Sunday back-nine at The Open to rocket up the standings and grab a fifth Top 10 finish at a Major. The Oban ace backed up his stunning runner-up show at last month's US Open with another sterling Royal Portrush performance which has surely sealed his Ryder Cup spot. It was another quality display after Oakmont and MacIntyre: 'I know I've got the game. I feel like it's a matter of time, if I just keep piecing it all together. 'This place is statistically a golf course that I should have been sharper. There's certain holes this week that were vital and I played them poorly. 'Top 10, but to contend, I just wasn't sharp enough and then, the tough holes, that's where the dropped shots came and ultimately cost me a real chance. 'I'm finishing top 10 in a major and being frustrated with certain parts of my game. Things are good and I've just got to wait my turn. 'After US Open, it was important for me to come back here and, obviously coming from last week I changed my preparation to feel more comfortable in what I was doing. This week I've done everything exactly the same as I would do in the States. I felt comfortable. 'I obviously want to win, but Top 10 in the world, very close to it. There's a lot of massive things, FedEx. I just want to improve every year on what I've done.' MacIntyre's performance has surely booked his seat onto the European flight for Bethpage and he admitted: 'I think it has now. I thought after the US Open it might be done. I've got four more tournaments or three more before the deadline, but I want to qualify automatically. Three more goes and we'll, hopefully, do that. 'Again, I was coming out here trying to win the tournament, but I knew I was too far back [starting Sunday]. It was just jockey for position, pick up whatever you can.' MacIntyre was just a debutant when he finished tied-sixth at Portrush six years ago and he's maturing towards the finished article. He continued: 'I'm a far better equipped golfer. I feel like in another week and I piece these things together, one shot, two shots, four shots, they're massive in these tournaments. "For me, looking now, it's been a great performance, a good result. But it's another kind of reassurance that I'm in the right place.' MacIntyre knew he had to stay calm through the irritation of his final-day front nine to ensure the power-packed finale and said: 'Yeah, I was frustrated early on. The bogey on four was stupid. Sloppy, being too aggressive. Obviously I didn't birdie five and then I just had to keep saying to myself: Just stay patient, there's a good finish there if you can stay calm and just pick up the shots where you can and hope that the putter warms up and putts start going in. Thankfully that's what happened. Obviously chipped in one.' It was another example of his ability to push on at the right times as he continued: 'Was it Valhalla last year? I think I eagled the last and finished Top 10, so that was my big learning. 'I remember somewhere before that I was in with a chance, threw the kitchen sink at it, disaster, and then the next week was there and it was staying patient. Nothing was happening, stay patient, stay patient, eagle the last, Top 10. 'I go away from it because I'm human and I lose the plot every now and again and I come back to it, but it is so difficult for me to stay patient, stay calm. I was getting annoyed out there early on through five, six holes. But it was just wait on your run. It will come. 'It might not come this week, but then go into next week and it's just let it happen. It's easy enough to force it, and when you force it, errors come.' MacIntyre was roared up the last by the Portrush public and said: 'This is my favourite Open venue. To be brutally honest, I love the course, love the place. Not far from home as the crow flies. Shame it's not here every year! But no, it's been unbelievable. The support has been brilliant. Again, the course is in unbelievable shape.' MacIntyre has played lots this term, but the juices are flowing and he said: 'When I'm driving it this well, you feel like you can absolutely demolish golf courses when you've got it, when you can shape it, you've got control of it. 'You feel as though it's just around the corner, a win is around the corner. It's difficult to win, but you feel it when you've got the driver going the way it is. That's why I keep going. But then I run out of energy at some point. 'But no, after the Playoffs there will be a little break, Wentworth, we'll piece together the plan for Bethpage.'
Scotsman
15 hours ago
- Sport
- Scotsman
'I feel like it's a matter of time' - Bob MacIntyre on latest eye-catching major performance
Scot backs up runner-up finish in US Open with a top ten at Royal Portrush Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... It wasn't to be on this occasion in terms of achieving his ultimate goal in the game, but, nonetheless, it's official. Bob MacIntyre is now a bona fide major contender and can't wait for the game's biggest events to come around again in 2026. Runner-up in last month's US Open at Oakmont, the Oban man backed up that brilliant effort by tying for seventh in the 153rd Open at Royal Portrush. In 19 major appearances, he has now recorded five top-ten finishes. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Bob MacIntyre acknowledges the crowd on the 18th green at the end of the final round in The 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush |for HSBC 'Yeah, I know I've got the game,' said MacIntyre of taking another big step in his bid to make the ultimate breakthrough in the game by producing eye-catching back-to-back performances in the events that measure careers. 'I feel like it's a matter of time, if I just keep piecing it all together.' It had been a 'frustrating' final round for the 28-year-old as he stood at level par for the day on the 12th tee, having offset birdies at the second and seventh with bogeys at the fourth and tenth. His patience was well and truly rewarded, though, over the closing stretch, which yielded four birdies, including a chip at the 14th, and also a run of five straight 3s. 'This place is statistically a golf course that I should have been sharper. My wedge play was really poor this week and some dropped shots ultimately cost me a real chance,' he said in assessing his seventh-place finish. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad That was just outside where he ended up on his major debut here in 2019 but, asked to compare then and now, he declared: 'I'm a far better-equipped golfer. It's been a great performance, a good result. It's another kind of reassurance that I'm in the right place.' His place in Europe's team for a Ryder Cup defence at Bethpage Black in September has been well and truly nailed down. 'Yeah, I think it has now,' said the 2023 rookie in Rome. 'I thought after the US Open it might be done. I've got three or four more tournaments before the deadline, but I want to qualify automatically and we'll hopefully do that.' Those tournaments are the three FedEx Cup Play-Offs, starting with the FedEx St Jude Championship in three weeks' time then the BMW Championship and season-ending Tour Championship. He'll then turn his attention to the DP World Tour before and after the Ryder Cup. Bob MacIntyre of Scotland reacts to leaving a birdie putt agonisingly short at the 18th in the final round |'I feel like the schedule that I've been playing for the last three months has been absolutely hectic. I feel I've hardly had a break. But that's part of the job. Keep going. When you're playing well, just keep going,' said with a smile. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad On the back of his emergence as a global star over the past year and a bit in particular, MacIntyre was cheered every step of the way at a venue he openly admits is his 'favourite links course in the world'.
BBC News
15 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Hot Open finish leaves MacIntyre feeling warm
Bob MacIntyre said he needed a "hot start" at Royal Portrush on Sunday. What he got in the final round of the Open Championship was a hot though, his 67 was only enough for a 10-under par total. A total that left the Scot seven in arrears of the peerless Scottie Scheffler and tied for seventh place by the time the grandstands been in a share of sixth in his debut major appearance on this Northern Irish links in 2019, MacIntyre leaves this weekend with a marginally worse outcome, but feeling like he's "streets ahead" of where he was even this time last year."I know I've got the game," the 28-year-old said, having added another top-10 here to his runner-up finish at June's US Open. "I feel like it's a matter of time, if I just keep piecing it all together. "It's been a great performance and a good result. But it's another reassurance that I'm in the right place." MacIntyre had said all week he would have a right good go at it should he be in the mix on the final nine holes of the tournament. Four birdies in his final seven holes made good on that vow, even if the circumstances were not what he had dreamed they might be as Sunday unfurled on what he declared to be his favourite course on the Open Scot picked up a shot on the second after a long eagle putt halted seductively short of the hole, but handed back that initiative on four."Stupid" was his brutal assessment of that bogey, which effectively ended his slender hopes of making a run at Scheffler and the rest of the birdie, this time at seven, was returned to the course three holes later, before MacIntyre found that bit of heat he was looking for. Both 12 and 14 brought birdies - the latter when a low chip skittered all the way into the cup - and catapulted him back to the upper reaches of the leaderboard. Further red numbers came at 15 and 17, before he rounded off his weekend with par on the last amid a warm reception from the grandstands. "I just had to keep saying to myself, 'stay patient, there's a good finish there if you can stay calm'," MacIntyre said."There's certain holes this week that were vital, and I played them poorly. But I'm finishing top 10 in a major and being frustrated with certain parts of my game. "Things are good, and I've just got to wait my turn."
BBC News
2 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
MacIntyre needs 'hot start' to save Open chances
It's probably a measure of how far Bob MacIntyre has come that he goes into the final day of an Open Championship inside the top 10 but feeling Scot started his third round at Royal Portrush five off pacesetter Scottie Scheffler, but finished it eight back from the peerless leader after a world number 14 is not out of contention at six under, but it's hard to say he's in it either. "Unless I get off to a hot, hot start, it's probably out the window," MacIntyre conceded."If I see myself close to the lead and within a few shots, then we'll throw everything at it. But seeing the leaderboard, it's probably just jostling for position."MacIntyre had vowed to not be scared of the prospect of getting in amongst it after his second-round 66. But a late burst of low scoring late on Friday left him "almost in tears" on his coach and nudged him further away from the summit by the time he started on Saturday. And as the sun shone, the 28-year-old found himself unable to take advantage of the more forgiving conditions in the way others his scorecard showed the same spray of red as most of the field, but three ill-timed bogeys interupted any murmurings of opening pars, then a dropped shot on four, caused him to slip down the order, but then his fortunes on six immediately repaired the damage, before a close-range eagle on the par five seventh hoisted MacIntyre right back into the that the spark? No. Bogey on eight stymied 15-footer for birdie on 11 - his longest of the week - turned out to be his last flicker. A flicker extinguished on his approach from the middle of the fairway found a greenside bunker, his club went cartwheeling after it amid a cloud of elite swearing. "I think it's fair game to lose the plot every now and again," MacIntyre said, when pressed on it afterwards. "A bit of anger came out."Three shots later, he scribbed down another bogey. Baw burst. Four closing pars were purely perfunctory."The tougher the test, the more I feel I can keep that discipline," he added. "The more there's a birdie fest and a shootout, that's when I lose it properly."I thought walking away from here last night that I wouldn't be more than three shots back, but ended up five shots back from the best player in the world."Now tomorrow is about going out there and finishing as high as we can."
