‘Bobby’s Bombs’ Making A Blast Back In Oban.

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 Top Scot Robert Macintyre’s ‘Bobby Bombs’ Phoenix Open spectator gift packs has turned into a great boost for his beloved Oban Celtic Shinty club back home in his beloved Oban.

In another super PR exercise last week, the World No. 14 tossed around 20 individually wrapped #16 Oban Celtic tops along with a $20 note, plus a small message saying: “Get yourself a couple of beers. Cheers, B Mac” to fans gathered in stands at the famed par-3 16th stadium hole of the TPC Scottsdale course.

And ahead of teeing-up in this week’s $20m Genesis Invitational on the Californian west coast, MacIntyre revealed just how much attention last week’s fun exercise has brought his Oban club.

It was his father, Dougie who got the gift shirts all arranged with Bob adding the $20 notes and the exercise comes following MacIntyre’s great ‘Augusta National invitation’ Oban post office dinner ‘thank you’ video from earlier this year.

MacIntryre said: “I thought it went down well. It was an Oban Celtic shinty shirt, obviously the shinty team I play for, and the No 16 for the hole was on every shirt I threw out.

“Yeah, I just put a few dollars in the bundle as well for them to get a beer and get a wee bit louder.

The growing in fame – Bobby Bomb.

“I think we threw away 18 or 19 shirts and everyone had money and a note on it. When they got the shirt, they were probably like ‘what the hell is this?’ and found it was $20 and hopefully started to think ‘fair play’.

“It was nothing other than just having a bit of fun with the crowd, getting them on your side in some way and trying to embrace it because it is an absolutely brilliant event”.

And US fans would not know one end of a shinty ball from the other, the World No. 14 ranked MacIntyre said his beloved Oban Celtic club has benefitted money-wise.

MacIntyre said:  “Actually had a few sales on the shirts and I think they are delighted about that. I think it will pay for the mini bus for a few months!

“It was just an absolutely brilliant week, last week.

“I think there is a place for that in the game of golf. Obviously not every week. You don’t want that every week because it is carnage – that’s the only word for it.

“But I absolutely loved it and, for me, there are two things with that environment. You can either hide from it or you can meet it head on and I am one of those guys who tries to meet these things head on and have a bit of fun with it.

“They are having fun at me and laughing at me if I hit a bad shot, so I am thinking ‘well, I might as well bring some attention to myself and just embrace it’. And that’s what I tried to do”.

 

 



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