MacIntyre will contest this week’s $US 9.9m Valero Texas Open and as he had done four years ago in 2022, finishing T35th on the host TPC San Antonio course in Texas.
The Oban lefty will be making a fourth Masters showing having finished T12th on his Augusta National debut in 2021 ahead of a T23rd result a year later.
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MacIntyre did not qualify for the ’23 or ’24 Masters but after a double PGA Tour success later in ’24, he thus also doubly qualified for last year’s Masters only to miss the halfway cut.
Actually, MacIntyre qualifies for next week’s Masters via three categories – Among the current top-50 on the Official World Rankings; Among the top-four and ties following the 2025 US Open (MacIntyre runner-up) and among those who contested the 2025 PGA season-ending Tour Championship (MacIntyre T17th).
This week will also celebrate the 13th anniversary since fellow Scot Martin Laird captured the 2013 Valero Texas Open, holding off Rory McIlroy to win by two shots and secure the last place into the Augusta field.
And Laird arrived so late into Augusta, GA on that Sunday night after his victory that his management team arranged with Scotland’s only Masters champion Sandy Lyle if he could let Laird stay for the night in a spare room in the house the 1988 Augusta hero was renting for the week.
Laird said at the time: “Obviously my plans changed quickly when I won and I didn’t have anywhere to stay on Sunday, but my management company found me a spare room.
“Sandy is staying there and he was waiting for me when I got in. He told me it was the 25th anniversary of his win and how he had won the week before Augusta. It would be nice to follow him.
“He asked ‘why, who’s leading?’ and when he said it was me he went in right away and watched the last six or seven holes.”
