“Then I knew I just had to try and take advantage of the par fives. It’s getting so fast, the fairways are running so fast that it doesn’t matter what club you’re hitting – any bunkers are in play.<\/p>\n
“I probably hit more drivers than I thought I was going to, but you have to pick the shot. It’s got to be high, low, left to right, right to left – it doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n
“You’ve just got to pick the right shot to land it softer. It was free-running golf.”<\/p>\n
MacIntyre had to wait until the 14th hole for his first birdie of the day after turning in one over par. <\/p>\n
The Scot admitted the round could easily have slipped away before he finished on four under for the championship.<\/p>\n
“It was a difficult putt on 14. I hadn’t holed any real putts, but it was a great putt. It was a real mover, it was moving a lot down the hill.<\/p>\n
“Then it was just about not making a mistake. I missed the green on the left, pin high, on 16. I thought that was a bit of a mistake, but you’ve got to trust the short game because you can deal with any shot. It was a lovely bump-and-run up there.<\/p>\n
“It’s a great spot to be in. I couldn’t ask for a better position after the start I had today. It was lovely to grind out the round, finish one under for the day and go again tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, Herbert and Sam Burns matched the lowest round ever recorded at a men’s major by carding eight-under-par 62s.<\/p>\n
MacIntyre said he was not surprised to see the world’s best players taking advantage of the scoring opportunities.<\/p>\n
“Unbelievable,” he added. “I said it out there to some of the boys, it does not matter. <\/p>\n
“They keep worrying about score to par and how hard the golf course is, but these guys are the best in the world.<\/p>\n
“If they’re on their game, they will shoot the lights out. I thought one-under-par was a hell of an effort – eight under par is outrageous.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Then I knew I just had to try and take advantage of the par fives. It’s getting so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-697219","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\/697219","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=697219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}