You can’t blame Robert MacIntyre frankness and not hiding his feelings in twice using the ‘pile of poo’ emoji on his ‘X’ account after his ‘Down Under’ quest to at least secure a Masters invitation nose-dive as he missed the cut in the ISPS Handa Australian Open in Sydney.
MacIntyre posted rounds of 70 and a horror second day 77, that included just one birdie but also five bogeys and a double-bogey in his four-over tally to end his year six shots shy of playing all four days on the Australian club course.
Scotland’s top-ranked had travelled from Dubai to Australia buoyed in securing his PGA Tour card but the present World No. 57 was heading home certain to end the year drop outside the world’s top-60.
Robert MacIntyre ends his Ryder Cup team winning season on a disappointing note at the Australian Open
Those on the rankings inside the top-50 on December 31, and not already exempt, earn an invitation into the following April’s Masters though McIntyre will have until the end of March to get himself back to Augusta for a first occasion since 2022.
In fairness to the Scot, it was a ‘strange’ few days in Sydney arriving to find the wedges in his golf bag had been stolen. There was also a revelation of his fear of heights in not wishing to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge and ending on Friday with a highest score since an opening 78 three weeks ago at the Nedbank Challenge in South Africa.
Since the euphoria of being on the winning European Ryder Cup team, MacIntyre’s enjoyed just one top-10 in his seven events.
MacIntyre did mention after his round he wasn’t feeling the best.
He then went onto this ‘X’ account using the ‘pile of poo’ emojis to describe both how he felt and his golf game, and that had attracted close to 50K views in posting this story on the ‘net’.
The Australian Open hashtag #AusOpenGolf posted MacIntyre’s tweet with his Aussie supporters responding by wishing him well and thanking him for travelling ‘down under’ though the retweet was strangely taken down shortly after play ended.
MacIntyre now has five weeks ahead of making his PGA Tour ‘full membership’ debut at the January 8th commencing Sony Open in Hawaii.
No concerns for Fife Connor Syme as he continues to become only second Scot in 118-years to lift the Stonehaven Trophy.
A Syme victory would also see him capture a rare Aussie amateur/pro double, having won the 2016 Australian Amateur in Melbourne.
Syme grabbed four birdies in a two-under 70 to move into a share of second at nine-under with American Patrick Rodgers (70), trailing three back of red-hot Aussie Min Woo Lee.
Lee, the 2022 Scottish Open champ, captured last week’s Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane, as he seeks to join fellow Aussie Greg Chambers (2011) winning both the PGA and Open in the same year.
