MacIntyre On The Masters: “I’m Ready To Give Myself A Chance At A Major”.

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Top Scot Bob MacIntyre reckons: “I’m ready to give myself a chance at a major” ahead of the year’s season-opening Masters in Augusta, GA.

MacIntyre is in Singapore for this week’s Porsche Singapore Masters ahead of returning home to his beloved Oban for a two-week ‘training camp’ and then jetting off to Augusta National for a first occasion in three years.

The new World No. 14 is the highest-ranked player in this week’s $2.5m event and he tees-up after an impressive new season start, capped by last week’ s top-10 finish at the Players Championship.

MacIntyre said: “I’ll play this week, and then I’ve got two weeks off, but I’ll go home back to Scotland for 10 days, and then I’ll go do another full team training camp in Isleworth for three, four days, and then head up to Augusta.

“I think I’m as prepared as ever. My games in the best shape it’s ever been, from driver all the way down to the pattern and then the mental side of it.

“I think I’m ready to give myself a chance at a Major. I think that’s all I can all I can ask for, is to have a chance.

“You dream of winning golf majors, but you just want chances of winning these events. And then if you get in that position, then it’s just go for it.

“That’s the way I play golf, is getting that position, and then it’s just where it was”.

It’s been three years since MacIntyre last drove down Magnolia Lane and where he finished T12th on debut in 2021 and T23rd a year later.

That was when MacIntyre had won just one European Tour event and was ranked No. 73rd in the world.

He’ll return to the Masters with the confidence in his golf bag of being a member of a winning Ryder Cup team and a two-time PGA Tour champ.

MacIntyre said: “I think my career’s been stepped nicely. It’s not been a rapid rise. It’s been a nice progression from Challenge Tour, European Tour, winning on the European Tour, PGA Tour, winning the PGA Tour.

“When I played on the DP World Tour, and was going to these WGCs and Majors, it was like I was competing against guys that I wasn’t competing against week in, week out.

“Whereas now, I’m going to these elevated events and going to the Majors, and it’s the same field, bar a couple of guys that are coming in.

“It’s not a shock to the system, and it feels more comfortable. You’re pitching up there, you’re doing the same work, you’re preparing the same way, and then hopefully the cards fall the right way for that week, and you have a chance.”

And while MacIntyre is exempt into all four majors this year, there is an event starting September 26th he’d love to again be a part.

MacIntyre said: “Once you play one that was lucky enough, the one I’ve played with won.

“You don’t get that feeling in golf that much as a team – the celebration from leaving Marco Simone and getting back to the hotel, you only get that playing team sports.

“The individual stuff, winning is special. I’ve won special events and managed to have nice celebrations, but that one in Rome was just, it was more than just the guys in the team. It’s more than just the vice captains and captains.

“It felt like a whole tour win, and that was special. So, that’s one of my main goals for the year, is to be there at Bethpage and try and win the Ryder Cup on US soil”.

MacIntyre is joined in Singapore by last fortnight’s Joburg Open champ Calum Hill along with Ewen Ferguson, Grant Forrest and Richie Ramsay.



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