PGA Tour<\/a> winner dusted himself down with a steady 64 to lie tied third and three shots behind Russell Henley on day one at the Tour Championship, which determines the winner of the season-long FedEx Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\nHe was asked by one reporter after Thursday’s first round of the Tour Championship whether his golf clubs, consisting of a mix of Titleist and TaylorMade clubs, had survived the journey to East Lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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“The caddie took them away before I got a hold of them,” admitted MacIntyre, who has still yet to fully reflect on why it went so wrong for him in the final round of the BMW Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“No, they were safe. It was one of them days. There’s a lot that I’m going to learn from that day, from the way I handled myself, as in interacting with the crowd.<\/p>\n
“I have not done a debrief enough. I had a talk with the guys out here on my team, four of us, me, my caddie, Mike Kanski, my putting coach, my manager.<\/p>\n
“Had a half hour, 40-minute chat in the house on Monday. I didn’t do anything Monday, so we done a little chat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But I’ll do a full debrief of what happened on Sunday.”<\/p>\n
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MacIntyre all smiles on Thursday<\/p>\n
MacIntyre did at least take consolation from having automatically qualified for a second consecutive Ryder Cup appearance.<\/p>\n
He joins Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood and Tyrrell Hatton on the team.<\/p>\n
Rasmus Hojgaard is expected to take the sixth and final automatic spot on Luke Donald’s European team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jon Rahm, Shane Lowry, Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg, Viktor Hovland and Matt Fitzpatrick are the hot favourites to earn Donald’s six picks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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