There is a lot to like Robert MacintreOban’s proud son, Scotland: the roots of the working class; labor and humble; adulter. None of which to say Bobby Mac also goes when things don’t go on his way. He may seem with gentle behavior and most of the time he is, but enraged, he will tell you, he is also in his DNA.
“I will hit the bag. I will say some harsh things, but that’s what makes me go,” he said before the 153rd open championship last month. “If I walk around and I’m happy, I just made a double noise or people are applauding, thanks a lot, it’s not me. I need to destroy something. I want to tear a handle. I do something to get that anger out. It’ is better than for me. Some people are better to keep it, but it is just to take it.”
Through three rounds in BMW championshipMacintyre had little reason to attack or boiled, except for an occasional attack heard by hostile American fans. He would open the event at Cave Valley in Maryland with an eight blind with eight under 62. In the second and third rounds he cools down with a 64 and 68, respectively, but yet no one could continue with the calm Scots. On 16 under 54 holes, Macintyre had a lead from four.
This was the good news. Bad news: Macintyra’s game partner in the latest Sunday pairing was the world (Galaxy?) Nr. 1 Scottie Schefflerwhich chews leads with four shots as Pac-Man pressing the power pellets. Bored? Macintre did not seem to be. Or at least he said it wasn’t. “I was really waiting to go out there, exchange down and do the way I have the last days,” he said on Sunday evening.
Instead, Macintyre departed for what he characterized as “an absolutely terrible beginning”, displaying lies of flight and a mud ball in the first two holes that led to a pair of Bogeys. After another trick in 5, Macintyre’s superiority had already been halved. He was placed with seven rights, but against Scheffler Pars is rarely enough. Macinti’s inability to control his distances was not helping issues.
“My golf ball was going miles today,” he said. “I don’t know why. I have to work this. But when I turned the game back in a form, I went over the back of the par-3s. I feel I hit the good shots, and I went miles.”
Macintre was also listening to it from the pro-Scheffler galleries, as it had been on Saturday. As Macintyre went up to the 12th hole in the last round, a fan shouted, “You’re not ready!”
Until 15, Macintyre had completely removed the superiority in Scheffler but was excavated deep to try and stay in a healthy mental space.
“I was not good with myself up to that point,” he said. “Scottie had lost a blow, and then I’m like, or not, if you were given a shot back at the beginning of the week, would you have got it? One hundred percent would have taken it. Yes, I had the lead, but it doesn’t matter until the last hit in Green and the 72nd hole.
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But then, Scheffler Zogu 15 and two holes later, in par-3 17, placed the nail in the Macintre Casket when he housed one of The biggest shots of chips you will ever see. Macintyre had also been Greenside in the US Open at Oakmont earlier this summer when JJ Spaun Drenoi a 64-foot to win the title. Surely no other player has been beaten in such a short space in two such prestigious tours by two such impossible shots, of dismissal. When Scheffler’s chip fell to 17 years old, you can have a half -expected machine to turn green and begin to dive into his polo stitches.
No. He kept his peace. At the moment anyway. After signing for a disappointing 73, Macintrere said Scheffler’s visible:
“He’s the best player in the day,” before he adds, “I’m just upset now.”
One reporter asked Macintrey if he pointed out any specific improvement, he felt like he should do.
“For now, not a data,” Macintrere said. “For now, I want to go and destroy my golf clubs, be honest with you.”
Don’t worry, it’s all part of Bobby Mac process.
Better than in.
