{"id":50595,"date":"2026-08-15T00:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/50595\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:22:15","slug":"robert-macintyre-withdraws-from-st-jude-championship-after-tough-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/50595\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert MacIntyre withdraws from St. Jude Championship after tough first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/2026\/08\/13\/robert-macintyre-first-round-st-jude-championship\/91289586007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Robert MacIntyre<\/a> withdrew from the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first leg of the <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/golf\/pga\/fedex-cup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FedEx Cup<\/a> playoffs, on Friday, Aug. 14 after enduring a <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/2026\/08\/13\/robert-macintyre-first-round-st-jude-championship\/91289586007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">challenging opening round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday at TPC Southwind, MacIntyre battled oppressive heat with the index soaring above 100 degrees. He carded a 12-over-par 82, recording three double bogeys, a triple bogey, and just one birdie, his toughest round since joining the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, he found himself eight shots adrift at the bottom of the St. Jude Championship leaderboard going into <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/pga\/2026\/08\/14\/st-jude-championship-tee-times-friday-round-2-pairings\/91279101007\/?taid=6a7f0cb02138410001ff313d&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Friday&#8217;s second round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MacIntyre&#8217;s withdrawal has left his playing partner, J.T. Poston, to play his second round alone.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/2026\/08\/13\/robert-macintyre-first-round-st-jude-championship\/91289586007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Robert MacIntyre struggles in first round of St. Jude Championship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite withdrawing, <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/pga\/2026\/08\/14\/robert-macintyre-withdraws-fedex-st-jude-championship-2026\/91302976007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">MacIntyre remains at No. 37 in the FedEx Cup<\/a> with 1,191 points, enough to qualify for next week\u2019s BMW Championship starting on Aug.18. Only the top 50 golfers in the standings after their performance at the St. Jude Championship will advance.<\/p>\n<p>However, his prospects of making it to the season-ending Tour Championship will hinge on his performance at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news \u2014 fast. <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1el9h6z4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/2026\/08\/14\/robert-macintyre-withdraws-st-jude-championship\/91304454007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Robert MacIntyre withdraws from St. Jude Championship after tough first round<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert MacIntyre withdrew from the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1562],"class_list":["post-50595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-robert-macintyre","tag-robert-macintyre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595","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=50595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}