Top Scot Robert MacIntyre has arrived in the UAE for the closing two events of the DP World Tour season and rating his 2025 double winning season an 8 out 10.
MacIntyre is returning to competition on a high having been a member of a second victorious European Ryder Cup side and also his stunning success on home ground at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
The current World No. 7 will tee-up in this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship currently lying sixth of the Race to Dubai ranking and looking assured of a highest ranking in this his seventh full season on the DP World Tour and already three spots higher than ending both the 2021 and 2024 season ranked ninth.
And ahead of this week’s event he was asked how he would ‘grade’ his year.
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“It’s been decent. I’d say 8 out of 10. I would say it’s been fairly consistent”, he said to reportets in Abu Dhabi.
“Obviously getting the win at the Dunhill was big win. Winning the Ryder Cup was enormous. Didn’t get my win on the PGA TOUR but it’s been a good year, a good move up the World Rankings.
“So, yeah, it’s definitely been positive but there’s always room for improvement”.
On top of being a member of the winning European Team and the double europhia of his Home of Golf triumph MacIntyre’s enjoyed a stella 2025 with a near victory in the US Open and second also in the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship.
There was also five other top-10s and the standout being a T7th at the Open Championship at Royal Portrush.
MacIntyre’s now also returned to the UAE after finishing T4th in the last year’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship that will take place next week in nearby Dubai.
However for the past few weeks since winning the Dunhill Links MacIntyre admits he’s been ‘sitting on his backside’ though we know he endeard himself to many revealing he ventured to the Isle of Skye for a bit of exploring.
“Not an awful lot to be honest”, he said.
“Sitting on my backside at home for 3 1/2 weeks. I’ve done the odd bit of practise but not much. Come out here the last three days. Knew out here Thursday or Friday last week. Got a bit of practise, a bit of sun, a bit of warm weather training, a lot of camp and yeah, it’s been good.
“I’ve had a long season. I think the most I had off was two weeks. So to actually get 3 and a half, four weeks off was nice, not just the physical part but for more the mental part. Gave me time to do some gym work, try and get stronger, try and get fitter. Yeah, there’s positives”.
However, if there was a special moment for the Oban lefty is a bus ride with his victorious European team-mates through the streets of the Big Apple in the hours after the side’s Bethpage Park success.
“Look, the bus is incredible. I think growing up playing team sports, you’re always traveling long distances,” he said. “Yeah, bus journeys home after a win are always special. That bus journey, I thought Rome was good but that bus journey in New York, it beat it.
“What a win it was; the way it went all week, doing so well the first two days; and Sunday wasn’t going our way, but at the end of the day, the job was to win the Ryder Cup and that’s what we done.
Of course, MacIntyre will end his season for a second year running at the Tiger Woods hosted Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas where he made his debut a year ago finishing T7th.
