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Bob MacIntyre knocks on the door once more <\/p>\nThe Scottish star says the frustration he feels despite another huge result in a big one provides more concrete evidence he\u2019s on the wayBob MacIntyre knocks on the door once more <\/p>\n
Bob MacIntyre believes it\u2019s a matter of time before he wins a Major.<\/p>\n
And the Scottish star says the frustration he feels despite another huge result in a big one provides more concrete evidence he\u2019s on the way.<\/p>\n
MacIntyre<\/a> produced a barnstorming Sunday back-nine at The Open<\/a> to rocket up the standings and grab a fifth Top 10 finish at a Major.<\/p>\n The Oban ace backed up his stunning runner-up show at last month\u2019s US Open with another sterling Royal Portrush performance which has surely sealed his Ryder Cup spot.<\/p>\n It was another quality display after Oakmont and MacIntyre: \u201cI know I\u2019ve got the game. I feel like it\u2019s a matter of time, if I just keep piecing it all together.<\/p>\n \u201cThis place is statistically a golf course that I should have been sharper. There\u2019s certain holes this week that were vital and I played them poorly.<\/p>\n \u201cTop 10, but to contend, I just wasn\u2019t sharp enough and then, the tough holes, that\u2019s where the dropped shots came and ultimately cost me a real chance.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m finishing top 10 in a major and being frustrated with certain parts of my game. Things are good and I\u2019ve just got to wait my turn.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter 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\u2019ve done everything exactly the same as I would do in the States. I felt comfortable.<\/p>\n \u201cI obviously want to win, but Top 10 in the world, very close to it. There\u2019s a lot of massive things, FedEx. I just want to improve every year on what I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n MacIntyre\u2019s performance has surely booked his seat onto the European flight for Bethpage and he admitted: \u201cI think it has now. I thought after the US Open it might be done. I\u2019ve got four more tournaments or three more before the deadline, but I want to qualify automatically. Three more goes and we\u2019ll, hopefully, do that.<\/p>\n \u201cAgain, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n MacIntyre was just a debutant when he finished tied-sixth at Portrush six years ago and he\u2019s maturing towards the finished article.<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cI\u2019m a far better equipped golfer. I feel like in another week and I piece these things together, one shot, two shots, four shots, they\u2019re massive in these tournaments.<\/p>\n “For me, looking now, it\u2019s been a great performance, a good result. But it\u2019s another kind of reassurance that I\u2019m in the right place.\u201d<\/p>\n MacIntyre knew he had to stay calm through the irritation of his final-day front nine to ensure the power-packed finale and said: \u201cYeah, 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\u2019s 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\u2019s what happened. Obviously chipped in one.\u201d<\/p>\n It was another example of his ability to push on at the right times as he continued: \u201cWas it Valhalla last year? I think I eagled the last and finished Top 10, so that was my big learning.<\/p>\n \u201cI 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.<\/p>\n \u201cI go away from it because I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n \u201cIt might not come this week, but then go into next week and it\u2019s just let it happen. It\u2019s easy enough to force it, and when you force it, errors come.\u201d<\/p>\n MacIntyre was roared up the last by the Portrush public and said: \u201cThis 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\u2019s not here every year! But no, it\u2019s been unbelievable. The support has been brilliant. Again, the course is in unbelievable shape.\u201d<\/p>\n MacIntyre has played lots this term, but the juices are flowing and he said: \u201cWhen I\u2019m driving it this well, you feel like you can absolutely demolish golf courses when you\u2019ve got it, when you can shape it, you\u2019ve got control of it.<\/p>\n \u201cYou feel as though it\u2019s just around the corner, a win is around the corner. It\u2019s difficult to win, but you feel it when you\u2019ve got the driver going the way it is. That\u2019s why I keep going. But then I run out of energy at some point.<\/p>\n \u201cBut no, after the Playoffs there will be a little break, Wentworth, we\u2019ll piece together the plan for Bethpage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish star says the frustration he feels despite another huge result in a big one provides more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7509,5904,2623,101,4274,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-11506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bob-macintyre","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-the-open-golf","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}