The Ryder Cup.<\/a><\/p>\nAnd now he says there\u2019s just one box left to tick in his career and that’s to win a Major.<\/p>\n
MacIntyre openly admits he\u2019s just \u201cliving a kid\u2019s dream.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Scotland\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
On occasion, he\u2019d just stop, glance around and try to take it all in. It was almost too much to process at the one time.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s next.<\/p>\n
MacIntyre laughed: \u201cI\u2019m meant to be on a flight on Monday night and I reckon me and Shane Lowry might be lost in New York!”<\/p>\n
But he continued: \u201cI\u2019m part of history. I don\u2019t know, I get emotional thinking about it. I\u2019m 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<\/p>\n
\u201cSince I was a young, young boy, I wanted to be a professional golfer, but I didn\u2019t 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\u2019m here, I mean, I\u2019m literally living a kid\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019ll keep saying it until the day I die, I\u2019ve just got one more dream that I want to achieve and that\u2019s win a major.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if I achieve that, I could happily hang up the boots, hang up the clubs and walk away from the game. I\u2019ve won the Scottish Open, won in Rome, now won here. There\u2019s so many people I\u2019ve got to thank, but this is just a dream. I don\u2019t know what to say, I mean, this is just a kid from Oban achieving these things. People like me, people hate me, but I\u2019m just being me.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
With Lowry and Tyrrell Hatton either side of him, the three of them kept smiling, giggling and making each other laugh.<\/p>\n
Europe were a Gang of New York. They didn\u2019t just play together. They worked, battled, laughed and celebrated together.<\/p>\n
MacIntyre smiled: \u201cAye, Shane\u2019s from the same kind of background as me, Tyrrell\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing daft happens. There\u2019s nothing wild happens within the group because we\u2019ve got to do a job, but I mean what a team. I\u2019ve played team sports all my life, it is different, completely different to playing shinty or football because we\u2019re 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\u2019s leaders in the team. We just follow suit and these guys are spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s 10 more on that list now as MacIntyre beameds: \u201cThere\u2019s 47 now and that was our place, our time. That was the motto all week.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Team USA captain Keegan Bradley\u2019s complaining about the Captain\u2019s Agreement rule that awarded both sides a half-point for Viktor Hovland\u2019s injury didn\u2019t go unnoticed by the squad.<\/p>\n
Although the trophy was secured, Europe wanted that extra half to take away the chance of anyone using it to somehow diminish their success.<\/p>\n
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Just like Rome, MacIntyre felt it might go down to him and said: \u201cIt 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\u2019t commit to the putt on 15 and then I gave myself chances. I thought I hit great shots on the last three holes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t 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\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt 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\u2019ve got to make him putt it.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u201cTo 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\u2019ve just got a dream of doing that and hope I achieve it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And now he says there\u2019s just one box left to tick in his career and that’s to win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7509,5904,11476,2623,6547,72945,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-180954","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-justin-rose","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-ryder-cup","13":"tag-scottish-open","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180954","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=180954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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