{"id":200198,"date":"2025-06-20T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200198\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:33:11","slug":"astonishing-bob-macintyre-moment-of-self-awareness-leaves-golfs-best-commentator-awestruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200198\/","title":{"rendered":"Astonishing Bob MacIntyre moment of self awareness leaves golf’s best commentator awestruck"},"content":{"rendered":"

MacIntyre has minerals says Tour mate and will deliver big-time at Ryder Cup<\/p>\n

11:32, 20 Jun 2025Updated 11:43, 20 Jun 2025<\/p>\n

Bob MacIntyre<\/p>\n

Brandel Chamblee reckons Bob MacIntyre\u2019s<\/a> drone move was moment was the knew the Scottish star was set to join the elite.<\/p>\n

The Oban hero has rocketed up the world standings and taken another huge step in is career after a brilliant runner-up finish at the US Open.<\/a><\/p>\n

MacIntyre was denied at the death at Oakmont when victor JJ Spaun holed a monster putt on the final green of the tournament to snatch the title. The Tartan star\u2019s response to the heartbreak was to applaud and that, in itself, brought him a new army of fans with Chamblee, an ex-Tour pro and now respected TV broadcaster, blown away at the levels of sporstmanship shown.<\/p>\n

But Chamblee has pointed back to an incident during MacIntyre\u2019s run towards a maiden PGA Tour win in Canada 12 months ago as the time when he could see for himself that the kid was destined for glory. MacIntyre took issue with an on-course drone buzzing above his head as he took shots in his final round and ordered its removal before going to lift the trophy.<\/p>\n

On the performance and applause at Oakmont, Chamblee said: \u201cWhat a moment that was. What a phenomenal round of golf, almost good enough to win a US Open and to see him react that way. Look, the average Tour pro three putts more often from 32 feet than they make it, so your odds are more likely that you are going to three putt from 32 feet than you are going to make it. 64 feet is twice that. So Robert, you\u2019re sitting there, you\u2019re thinking: He\u2019s probably got a 10 per cent chance of three putting this, Maybe more. I\u2019ve got a chance, I\u2019m still in this. Then he makes it and his initial reaction is to applaud him. That\u2019s the height of sportsmanship right there. Can\u2019t say enough great things about Robert McIntyre.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got up on 17 and, not unlike JJ Spaun, and hit a fabulous tee shot. I think I heard him say, be right, or be the right club. And I thought, golly. And then he striped it on 18 as well, so I can\u2019t say enough nice things about him. I was a fan before. I\u2019m a bigger fan now. I\u2019ll never watch him again without thinking about that [applauding] moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Sky Sports golf podcast, Chamblee then gave his Canada recollection and added: \u201cThere was a moment last year when he was contending in the Canadian Open, and he eventually won it, where I was so impressed with his ability in the moment because the drones were bothering him. You remember this? Look, drones are a thing and everybody likes them, I like them and they\u2019re great, but for him to have the clear-headedness to back away and say: I\u2019m not hitting this shot until you move that drone, I thought that just spoke volumes about his belief. And look, it\u2019s a trend, i\u2019s so easy just to say, everybody\u2019s doing this, I\u2019m going to look bad if I persist and say I\u2019m not hitting this shot. No, he didn\u2019t. He didn\u2019t do it in a mean way at all, he moved the drone, and he hit it, and he went on to win. And then he won the Scottish Open. Those were great moments.<\/p>\n

Bob MacIntyre<\/p>\n

MacIntyre\u2019s fellow pro Matt Wallace also poured praise onto the Scot during the show and said: \u201cYeah, he\u2019s got minerals. He\u2019s not afraid to win as we\u2019ve seen. I think the win in Canada really gave him a belief. When you get that win amongst the crowd that you\u2019re against, you can go: Well, I\u2019ve done it. I can win anywhere now. And so that was just another notch in his career that he\u2019s going to get into.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a phenomenal, phenomenal ball-striker, underrated ball-striker, probably. Stats will show some things, but from a pure ball-striking perspective, he gets club on ball out of the middle very, very often. We\u2019ve got the same putting coach. I know it\u2019s been part of his weakness where he\u2019s trying to improve on that a lot and the guy\u2019s ballsy. It\u2019s always nice to be able to do that in the moment and he wasn\u2019t shying away. He produced at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

MacIntyre\u2019s display has rocketed him up the Ryder Cup <\/a>points standings and he looks set to play for Europe against United States in September at Bethpage having made a winning debut in Rome. Wallace has a bold prediction on New York as regards the Scot as he said: \u201cJust on the Ryder Cup, I watched them in the last one with Rosie [Justin Rose] in Rome and Bobby was kind of a little bit shaky, which is obvious. Rosie really helped him along. Trust me, Bobby McIntyre will deliver at this Ryder Cup because he isn\u2019t afraid of anyone now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacIntyre has minerals says Tour mate and will deliver big-time at Ryder Cup 11:32, 20 Jun 2025Updated 11:43,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[77273,2826,7640,4321,77274,79,16,15,16022],"class_list":{"0":"post-200198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bob-macintyre","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-justin-rose","11":"tag-ryder-cup","12":"tag-scottish-open","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-us-open-golf"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114716423517122774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}