{"id":37591,"date":"2026-07-16T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/37591\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:24:20","slug":"macintyre-confident-he-has-got-a-chance-to-win-claret-jug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/37591\/","title":{"rendered":"MacIntyre confident he has &#8216;got a chance to win&#8217; Claret Jug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert MacIntyre is not letting the pressure rest on his shoulders ahead of The Open and is confident he can give himself a chance of victory.<\/p>\n<p>MacIntyre made his major debut at The Open back in 2019, at Royal Portrush, and finished tied for sixth as Shane Lowry claimed the Claret Jug.<\/p>\n<p>He has registered three top-10 finishes at the tournament in total, and five overall, coming closest to his first major title at last year&#8217;s U.S. Open, though he finished second.<\/p>\n<p>MacIntyre is now in the top 20 in the rankings and received a confidence boost heading into the tournament by finishing third at the Scottish Open.<\/p>\n<p>And he has no doubt that he can challenge at the top of the leaderboard on the final day of The Open, with his eyes on the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2019, I felt like I was just being part of the tournament,&#8221; MacIntyre said. &#8220;I was making up the numbers. I was just seeing how well I could do in this event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whereas now, I come here, and I know that if I play well, I&#8217;ve got a chance to win.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Scotland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/robert1lefty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@robert1lefty<\/a> enjoying himself on the links of Royal Birkdale. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WmJxNoPBvC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/WmJxNoPBvC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Open (@TheOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheOpen\/status\/2077334809479626811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m trying to do. If I play the golf I know I can play, I&#8217;m going to have a chance to win come Sunday \u2013 and that&#8217;s the difference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2019, I didn&#8217;t know how good I was. I didn&#8217;t know how good I could be. I was just playing with zero expectation and had a good finish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now there&#8217;s an expectation and demand on me, but it&#8217;s not pressure. I know if I play well, I&#8217;ll have a chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MacIntyre&#8217;s only two wins on the PGA Tour came back in 2024, as he won the Canadian Open and Scottish Open that year.<\/p>\n<p>The Open remains the only event in which MacIntyre has made the cut in every appearance, and he is looking to get a big result in the final major of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, he missed the cut at both the Masters and the PGA Championship, while he finished tied for 39th at the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert MacIntyre is not letting the pressure rest on his shoulders ahead of The Open and is confident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1562,9822,692,9821,9820],"class_list":["post-37591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-robert-macintyre","tag-robert-macintyre","tag-social","tag-sport","tag-sporty","tag-sportytv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}