The Saturday Show<\/a>. “There’s no vice captains, there’s nobody walking with you apart from your family, friends, your partners. <\/p>\n“You feel as though it’s you and your caddy against America. When I teed off, I thought ‘this is going to be over by the time I get to the eighth’, there was so much blue on the board.<\/p>\n
“I got to eight or nine, and the main difference is just it’s very even, but there’s more red now. The matches going down the 18th kept flipping to red and I thought ‘this is tight now’. It felt like ‘this could come down to your match’.<\/p>\n
“I missed the putt on the 15th and I honestly thought ‘I’m going to lose the Ryder Cup for us’.<\/p>\n
“I did the exact same thing in Rome, missed a putt on 14 and thought the exact same thing – I’ve lost the Ryder Cup.”<\/p>\n
However, MacIntyre was able to rely on a mindset learned from the game he grew up playing back in Oban – shinty.<\/p>\n
“I just thought ‘what would I do in a game of shinty when they score a goal in the 80th minute to go 1-0 up?’,” he said. <\/p>\n
“You can’t just put your head down and give up. You’ve still got 10 minutes to come back, same in football.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob MacIntyre admits his shinty experience helped steady him as he thought he was about to lose the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-224908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224908","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=224908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}