A bitterly disappointed Robert MacIntyre can return home with his head held high despite a bitter 71st hole blow at the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.
MacIntyre, 24, again continued to impress in firstly making it five halfway cuts from as many majors on Friday and then holding his own over the weekend to eventually sign for one over par 73 and an eventual five-over par tally.
After the clear disappointment of bogeying the last a day earlier, MacIntyre burst from the blocks on day four with a hat-trick birdies.
The trio of opening hole were each downwind and with the Oban lefty taking full advantage
Robert MacIntyre bitterly disappointed after a 71st hole double bogey.
MacIntyre holed a two-and-a-footer at the first, a six-footer at the next and then made it three one-putts in succession in holing a three-footer at the third.
It sent MacIntyre from just inside the top-50 to outside the top-30 though he gave two shots back with bogeys on four and the par-5 seventh where he had to take a penalty shot from a waste bunker.
MacIntyre then reeled-off five pars in a row before making a second in leaking his second shot into water for a bogey ‘5’.
He picked-up a fourth birdie for the round in two-putting the par-5 16th from some 60-feet.
However, MacIntyre was rocked in finding a waste bunker to the left of the par-3 17th and seeing his ball buried on an upslope and no option but to take an ‘unplayably’ penalty drop before hitting his third out sideways.
He was off with a gut-wrenching double-bogey ‘5’ ahead of a closing par.
MacIntyre said: “I’m playing some great golf, and I’m livid right now with the way I finished. I was 3-under par through three. I should never be shooting over par. I don’t care what golf course I play on, it’s not acceptable.
“I feel like I played good. I’ve just had about four unlucky breaks, had to take a penalty shot out of a plugged lie in a bunker. 17 there, I just took one bounce and plugged in a downslope. Well, on the bank of the bunker couldn’t move it forward, had to go sideways, made double.
“The scores are out there to get. Just disappointed with how it ended up”.
Looking back on his week, MacIntyre was three-under for the 16 pars fives, including being three-under for the par-5 second hole.
MacIntyre’s poorest holes were both the 17th and 18th holes that each jumped up to bite the young Scot to be four-over on each.
MacIntyre was jetting home to Scotland for a day’s rest and then heading to Denmark for this week’s Made in Denmark event on the European Tour.
