{"id":225958,"date":"2025-10-26T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225958\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:50:09","slug":"bob-macintyre-i-thought-id-lost-ryder-cup-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225958\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob MacIntyre: &#8216;I thought I&#8217;d lost Ryder Cup for Europe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bob MacIntyre admits his shinty experience helped steady him as he thought he was about to lose the Ryder Cup for Europe last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It had looked like Europe would thump the USA in New York, but the hosts fought back strongly on the final day, before the visitors finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/live\/cy8r5j2yn4jt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">secured the win<\/a> through Tyrell Hatton&#8217;s point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MacIntyre was last out for the Europeans and as the day wore on, it looked increasingly likely the Cup could come down to the last match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was horrible,&#8221; the world number eight told BBC Radio Scotland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/brand\/m002jw3w\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Saturday Show.<\/a> &#8220;There&#8217;s no vice-captains, there&#8217;s nobody walking with you apart from your family, friends, your partners. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You feel as though it&#8217;s you and your caddie against America. When I teed off, I thought &#8216;this is going to be over by the time I get to the eighth&#8217;, there was so much blue on the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I got to eight or nine, and the main difference is just it&#8217;s very even, but there&#8217;s more red now. The matches going down the 18th kept flipping to red and I thought &#8216;this is tight now&#8217;. It felt like &#8216;this could come down to your match&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I missed the putt on the 15th and I honestly thought &#8216;I&#8217;m going to lose the Ryder Cup for us&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I did the exact same thing in Rome, missed a putt on 14 and thought the exact same thing &#8211; I&#8217;ve lost the Ryder Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, MacIntyre was able to rely on a mindset learned from the game he grew up playing back in Oban &#8211; shinty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just thought &#8216;what would I do in a game of shinty when they score a goal in the 80th minute to go 1-0 up?&#8217;,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t just put your head down and give up. You&#8217;ve still got 10 minutes to come back, same in football.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob MacIntyre admits his shinty experience helped steady him as he thought he was about to lose the&hellip;\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-225958","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\/225958","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=225958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225958\/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=225958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}