Robert MacIntyre | |||||
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Personal information | |||||
Full name | Robert Duncan MacIntyre | ||||
Born | Oban, Scotland | 3 August 1996||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||
Sporting nationality | Scotland | ||||
Career | |||||
College | McNeese State University | ||||
Turned professional | 2017 | ||||
Current tour(s) | European Tour PGA Tour | ||||
Former tour(s) | Challenge Tour | ||||
Professional wins | 3 | ||||
Highest ranking | 42 (7 March 2021) [1] (as of 14 April 2024) | ||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||
European Tour | 2 | ||||
Other | 1 | ||||
Best results in major championships | |||||
Masters Tournament | T12: 2021 | ||||
PGA Championship | T49: 2021 | ||||
U.S. Open | T35: 2021 | ||||
The Open Championship | T6: 2019 | ||||
Achievements and awards | |||||
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Robert Duncan MacIntyre (born 3 August 1996) is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and PGA Tour.
MacIntyre had a successful amateur career. In 2013 he won both the Scottish Youths Championship and the Scottish Boys Open Stroke-Play Championship. [2] He won the Scottish Amateur in 2015 and in 2016 he lost 2&1 to Scott Gregory in the final of the Amateur Championship at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club. [3] [4] MacIntyre represented Scotland in the 2016 Eisenhower Trophy and played in the 2017 Walker Cup. [2] He attended McNeese State University from 2014 to 2015. [5] [6]
MacIntyre turned professional in late 2017. [4] In October, he played his first two events as a professional, on the MENA Golf Tour, finishing tied for third place in the Jordan's Ayla Golf Championship and then winning the Sahara Kuwait Championship. [2]
In November 2017, MacIntyre made the final stage of the European Tour Q-school. He finished tied for 37th place to secure a 2018 Challenge Tour card. [2] In August 2018, he lost to Kim Koivu in a playoff for the Vierumäki Finnish Challenge and then had an exceptional end to the season. He finished tied for fourth in the Monaghan Irish Challenge, lost a playoff to Víctor Perez in the Foshan Open and tied for 6th in the Ras Al Khaimah Challenge Tour Grand Final. His good finish to the season lifted him to 12th in the Challenge Tour Order of Merit, to earn a place on the European Tour for 2019.
MacIntyre was a joint runner-up in the 2019 Betfred British Masters, helped by an eagle-birdie finish. [7] Two weeks later he was runner-up in the Made in Denmark tournament, a stroke behind Bernd Wiesberger. [8] In July 2019, MacIntyre made his Open Championship debut at Royal Portrush, finishing in a tie for sixth. [9] On 14 October, MacIntyre became the leading Scot on the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time after finishing in a tie for fourth at the Italian Open. [10] MacIntyre finished the season as the leading rookie on the Race to Dubai rankings (11th place) which earned him the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award. [11]
In November 2020, MacIntyre claimed his first European Tour title at the Aphrodite Hills Cyprus Showdown. With the final round cut to 19 players due to knockout format of the event; MacIntyre's final round 64 was good to seal the victory and beat Masahiro Kawamura by one shot. [12]
In September 2022, MacIntyre won his second European Tour event at the DS Automobiles Italian Open. He shot a final-round 64 to join Matt Fitzpatrick in a playoff. He won the playoff on the first extra hole with a birdie. [13]
In July 2023, MacIntyre shot a 64, including a birdie on the final hole, in the final round of the Genesis Scottish Open. He was eventually beaten by Rory McIlroy by one shot. [14]
In September 2023, MacIntyre played on the European team in the 2023 Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Guidonia, Rome, Italy. The European team won 16.5–11.5 and MacIntyre went 2–0–1 including a win in his Sunday singles match against Wyndham Clark.
MacIntyre played shinty as a teenager for Oban Camanachd. [3]
His cousins Oscar MacIntyre and Jacob MacIntyre are professional footballers. [15]
Source: [16]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | 8 Nov 2020 | Aphrodite Hills Cyprus Showdown | −7 (64) [lower-alpha 1] | 1 stroke | Masahiro Kawamura |
2 | 18 Sep 2022 | DS Automobiles Italian Open | −14 (70-69-67-64=270) | Playoff | Matt Fitzpatrick |
European Tour playoff record (1–0)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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1 | 2022 | DS Automobiles Italian Open | Matt Fitzpatrick | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | 18 Oct 2017 | Sahara Kuwait Championship | −14 (65-66-65=196) | 2 strokes | Luke Joy |
Challenge Tour playoff record (0–2)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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1 | 2018 | Vierumäki Finnish Challenge | Kim Koivu | Lost to birdie on first extra hole |
2 | 2018 | Foshan Open | Victor Perez | Lost to birdie on first extra hole |
Results not in chronological order in 2020.
Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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Masters Tournament | T12 | T23 | |||
PGA Championship | T66 | T49 | 77 | CUT | |
U.S. Open | T56 | T35 | |||
The Open Championship | T6 | NT | T8 | T34 | T71 |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Tournament | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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The Players Championship | CUT | CUT |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Championship | T42 | T61 | ||
Match Play | NT1 | R16 | T35 | |
Invitational | T59 | T15 | ||
Champions | T17 | NT1 | NT1 | NT1 |
1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022.
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