{"id":789096,"date":"2026-10-02T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789096\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T00:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:30:13","slug":"frustrated-robert-macintyre-warned-after-drone-row-at-carnoustie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789096\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated Robert MacIntyre warned after drone row at Carnoustie"},"content":{"rendered":"

MacIntyre said he was spoken to by a tournament official after expressing his frustration directly towards the camera operator.<\/p>\n

He added: “I was just asking him what’s going on because they’ve obviously heard me swear a few times straight at the camera guy. We’ll see what the tournament director’s got to say.”<\/p>\n

MacIntyre also said his one-under-par opening round did not meet the standards he has set for himself after a year in which he has established himself among the world’s leading players.<\/p>\n

“It’s just the way I’m playing golf this year, this today,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There’s so much good in there, but then I walk off one under par and it’s OK, but it’s just not the level I want to be at.<\/p>\n

“It’s fine just now, I need to go away and fix it. The days I hit the ball well, I don’t putt as well, and the days I hit it absolutely horrific, I putt the boots off it. It’s just the way it is just now.”<\/p>\n

MacIntyre will play at Kingsbarns on Friday before completing the three-course rotation at St Andrews on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the Oban golfer called for Carnoustie and Muirfield to become regular venues on the Open Championship rota.<\/a><\/p>\n

And he believes the conditions he encountered on Thursday showed exactly why Carnoustie deserves to host more major championships.<\/p>\n

“That’s the toughest I’ve played this place in years,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve played here now, I don’t know, 20 times, I would say, and normally it’s a slightly different wind and you’re standing on 17 and you’re shelling the driver over the burn, flicking on a wedge.<\/p>\n

“Whereas today it was three-wood, rescue wood.<\/p>\n

“There are some holes that were easier, but that was as good a test as this place has played. There’s still a good score out there, but it wasn’t easy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacIntyre said he was spoken to by a tournament official after expressing his frustration directly towards the camera…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789096","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\/789096","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=789096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}