{"id":681777,"date":"2026-07-09T05:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681777\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:58:11","slug":"family-guy-robert-macintyre-comes-full-circle-at-genesis-scottish-open-articles-rolex-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681777\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Family guy’ Robert MacIntyre comes full circle at Genesis Scottish Open – Articles – Rolex Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is seven years since Robert MacIntyre<\/a> stood on the first tee at The Renaissance Club alongside Rory McIlroy and fulfilled a childhood dream of playing in the Genesis Scottish Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week the pair will tee off together from that spot once again but that is one of the few things that will be the same for MacIntyre both on and off the course.<\/p>\n

Back then McIlroy was already an established superstar of the game, while MacIntyre was a DP World Tour rookie finding his way after graduation from the\u00a0HotelPlanner\u00a0Tour.<\/p>\n

Since\u00a0then\u00a0they have become Ryder Cup team-mates who are both Genesis Scottish Open champions, dual members with the PGA TOUR and, outside the ropes, fathers.<\/p>\n

They shared one of the most remarkable afternoons in this event\u2019s history in 2023 when MacIntyre hit an incredible second to the last to make a birdie and send the home crowd into raptures, only for McIlroy to outdo him and with a birdie of his own and take the title by one.<\/p>\n

The Scot came back the following year to get his hands on the crown\u00a0and ahead of an eighth consecutive start at Renaissance, he was left to reflect on\u00a0how far he had come.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst time I played here, I could hardly get the ball on the tee,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that was my first Scottish Open as well. It was my first one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u00a0don’t\u00a0mind getting thrown in the deep end, but that one, it was something that I thought I had to do, and it was a massive learning curve.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow it just feels like another round of golf.\u201d<\/p>\n

While MacIntyre may be fully adjusted his lofty position in the golfing world, off the course he is still getting used to a new normal after he\u00a0and partner Shannon welcomed son Findlay in January, just days after MacIntyre became just the third Scot to reach the top five on the Official World Golf Ranking.<\/p>\n

Unlike many dual members who choose to base themselves in the United States, MacIntyre still lives in Oban on the west coast of the Scottish mainland and travels across the Atlantic to compete, sometimes having to leave family behind.<\/p>\n

Shannon and Findlay were with him for a recent run of PGA TOUR events that culminated in a top ten at the Travelers Championship\u00a0and the 29-year-old has been candid in admitting\u00a0that life on the road without them can be difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey managed to come out the five-week stretch I was on there and I feel like my golf was turning in the right direction,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cThe last event at the Travelers was\u00a0probably my\u00a0best overall game, tee to green especially, approach play was up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just makes life a lot easier. There\u00a0is\u00a0worse problems in the world but when\u00a0you\u2019ve\u00a0just had a newborn and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0your first you want to enjoy life.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me,\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0a family guy so I want to enjoy life and be at home and when they\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0be out there for serious\u00a0reasons\u00a0it was like, well,\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0still got to\u00a0do my job.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great that they could come out and\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0here this week and next week and then hopefully two,\u00a0maybe three\u00a0weeks off after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those two weeks composed of his home open and next week\u2019s Open Championship at Royal Birkdale represent MacIntyre\u2019s two greatest individual ambitions in golf.<\/p>\n

And while he may have achieved one of them, he would like multiple wins at this event before he puts away his clubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith everything I feel like I\u2019ve achieved in the game of golf now, other than a Major Championship, I\u2019ve completed my dream,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Scottish Open is just special for\u00a0me,\u00a0I\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0know how to explain it.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0the one I watched as a kid growing up, every year I went to Loch Lomond.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow here at Renaissance, managing to win it once, coming close the other time and now I just want to win it a few more times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to do it again. Every year I pitch up here I want to do it\u00a0again and again and\u00a0again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinning an Open Championship would be… I\u00a0wouldn’t\u00a0be\u00a0picky.\u00a0I’d\u00a0take any of the Majors.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the special things that I done here was the celebration that I had with my friends and family and some of the staff that were working purely the Scottish Open. It was obviously one of the best nights, days, weeks, that I’ve had. It probably is the best week that I’ve had at a golf event. It was so special.<\/p>\n

\u200b<\/p>\n

\"Robert<\/p>\n

“So there probably is two things. Having the family there, winning any event but I would say to that it would be winning an Open Championship, I would be able to then have the celebration with the people closest to me like a day later or that night.\u201d<\/p>\n

With three top\u00a0tens\u00a0in six Open appearances, it would be no surprise if MacIntyre were to get his wish and hoist the Claret Jug before his career is over.<\/p>\n

But whether he wins or not, one thing for certain is that he will enjoy being back to his golfing roots on the British Isles\u2019 coastline.<\/p>\n

\u201cLinks golf is what I know best,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0just hitting shots.\u00a0We\u2019re\u00a0out there on the practice days and\u00a0I’m\u00a0hitting chip shots and it feels great to be able to land this thing\u00a030 feet short and bump it up a bank and over the top of a hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the States\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0looking at Bermuda rough, trying to fly this thing out of the sky and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0so out of the norm for me\u00a0whereas\u00a0this is more my cup of tea. I enjoy links golf even more now that\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0playing over in the States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is seven years since Robert MacIntyre stood on the first tee at The Renaissance Club alongside Rory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681777","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=681777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}