And now he says there’s just one box left to tick in his career and that’s to win a Major

08:00, 29 Sep 2025Updated 08:32, 29 Sep 2025

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Emotional Bob MacIntyre reckons he might end up lost in New York with Shane Lowry.

But he’ll never lose his place in the history of The Ryder Cup.

And now he says there’s just one box left to tick in his career and that’s to win a Major.

MacIntyre openly admits he’s just “living a kid’s dream.”

As Scotland’s media reps at Bethpage caught up with him at the putting green behind the clubhouse in the wake of the dramatic success over the United States, it really was like a giant fun park.

Team-mates were chasing around spraying champagne at each other, Justin Rise was handing magnums across the fence to fans and a gang of jubilant supporters who had been with their boys through some harrowing moments in New York chanted the Scot’s name.

On occasion, he’d just stop, glance around and try to take it all in. It was almost too much to process at the one time.

Little wonder. The ascent in his career in the past two years has been stunning and, as he stands shoulder to shoulder with the elite these days, there is an appreciation of what he’s doing and what’s next.

MacIntyre laughed: “I’m meant to be on a flight on Monday night and I reckon me and Shane Lowry might be lost in New York!”

But he continued: “I’m part of history. I don’t know, I get emotional thinking about it. I’m a kid that had a dream that had the support of my family, my sponsors, a club, a town. Just keep dreaming, just keep working hard, keep moving forward, and anything can happen

“Since I was a young, young boy, I wanted to be a professional golfer, but I didn’t know if I was ever going to get the chance. And Stoddy [manager Iain Stoddart] gave me a chance with my sponsors back then, Orion Group and Arnold Clark. And now I’m here, I mean, I’m literally living a kid’s dream.

“And I’ll keep saying it until the day I die, I’ve just got one more dream that I want to achieve and that’s win a major.

“And if I achieve that, I could happily hang up the boots, hang up the clubs and walk away from the game. I’ve won the Scottish Open, won in Rome, now won here. There’s so many people I’ve got to thank, but this is just a dream. I don’t know what to say, I mean, this is just a kid from Oban achieving these things. People like me, people hate me, but I’m just being me.”

The down-to-earth joy in MacIntyre was evident as he sat on the podium at the winners press conference swigging a can of beer and scoffing peanuts.

With Lowry and Tyrrell Hatton either side of him, the three of them kept smiling, giggling and making each other laugh.

Europe were a Gang of New York. They didn’t just play together. They worked, battled, laughed and celebrated together.

MacIntyre smiled: “Aye, Shane’s from the same kind of background as me, Tyrrell’s Tyrell. You either like him or love him, and I love him. But I love every one of that team, every one of the backroom staff, every one of my team.

“There’s nothing daft happens. There’s nothing wild happens within the group because we’ve got to do a job, but I mean what a team. I’ve played team sports all my life, it is different, completely different to playing shinty or football because we’re individuals for 99 per cent of the weeks that we play golf, but when we come into this, it is a proper team and there’s leaders in the team. We just follow suit and these guys are spectacular.”

Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose had the badges from the win at Medinah in 2012 and there had been 37 players in total who triumphed in the United States.

There’s 10 more on that list now as MacIntyre beameds: “There’s 47 now and that was our place, our time. That was the motto all week.”

The cup was won by the time MacIntyre secured his half-point in the Singles against Sam Burns, but winning the last hole was vital.

Team USA captain Keegan Bradley’s complaining about the Captain’s Agreement rule that awarded both sides a half-point for Viktor Hovland’s injury didn’t go unnoticed by the squad.

Although the trophy was secured, Europe wanted that extra half to take away the chance of anyone using it to somehow diminish their success.

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Just like Rome, MacIntyre felt it might go down to him and said: “It was the exact same feeling. I was more comfortable, I hit a lovely shot into 13, lovely putt. Hit a lovely shot into 14, got a bit screwed with the spin that came back right onto the corner which was horrible. I just didn’t commit to the putt on 15 and then I gave myself chances. I thought I hit great shots on the last three holes.

“I didn’t think it was going to come down to as tight as it was and it ended up it did. But just to get that half point to kind of shut away Victor’s noise was nice. Obviously the guys are saying that Keegan wants to change the rule. The guys told me on 17 we want your half-point and I got it just to make sure of it.”

“It was one of those ones. I wanted to give Sam his putt, but I knew with the things that were happening and Viktor pulling out because of the injury, I was like, well, I’ve got to make him putt it.

““To get a half point and, at the end of the day, to win the Ryder Cup, I mean, I have now only got one more thing to achieve in the game of golf. I’ve just got a dream of doing that and hope I achieve it.”