McGinley – speaking alongside colleagues Rich Lerner and Brandel Chamblee, with whom he will cover the US Open for the Golf Channel – believes Shinnecock’s fast-running fairways and breezy test will suit MacIntyre.<\/p>\n
“He’s a dogged competitor. He’s got a huge heart. There was a reason he was played down the order on the last day of the singles. We have a lot of belief in him,” added McGinley, an advisor to captain Luke Donald on both MacIntyre’s Ryder Cup appearances.<\/p>\n
“He loves the fight. I’m a huge admirer of his game. He’s a wonderful putter, he’s won on links courses and growing up in Scotland, he’s very familiar with the kind of conditions at Shinnecock Hills.”<\/p>\n
The set-up at Shinnecock could favour MacIntyre, who is an indifferent 46th in driving accuracy on the PGA Tour this season.<\/p>\n
World number one Scottie Scheffler made a scouting trip to Long Island a few weeks ago and was surprised at the relative width, by US Open standards, of the fairways.<\/p>\n
The rough beyond the cut grass is ominous, but the Open champion believes the real test in this US Open will be on the slippery greens.<\/p>\n
It fits the profile of former champions at Shinnecock, with Corey Pavin – a short hitter who dazzled with a wedge and a putter in his hands – winning there in 1995 and Goosen putting with astonishing touch and nerve to win in 2004.<\/p>\n
MacIntyre will be buoyed by his Canadian Open performance but will he will need all of his noted short-game prowess and a cool head to prosper this week and go one better than the glorious near-miss of 12 months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McGinley – speaking alongside colleagues Rich Lerner and Brandel Chamblee, with whom he will cover the US Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-707461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}