By Martin Dempster - The Scotsman
Scot set to play seven weeks in a row in US after change of plan for Charles Schwab Challenge
Bob
MacIntyre has committed to a marathon seven-event stretch in North
America as the Ryder Cup hopeful bids to ignite his season.
After
playing in the Truist Championship, one of the PGA Tour’s Signature
Events, and the PGA Championship back to back, MacIntyre had been due to
take this week off.
However, the Oban man is teeing up along with last weekend’s Wanamaker
Trophy winner Scottie Scheffler in the Charles Schwab Challenge, which
starts in Fort Worth on Thursday.
MacIntyre will then play in next week’s Memorial Tournament presented by
Workday at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Ohio before defending his RBC
Canadian Open title in Toronto the following week.
The
US Open, the season’s third major and being held on this occasion at
Oakmont in Pennsylvania, follows straight after that and then he’ll play
in The Travelers Championship, another of the $20 million Signature
Events, in Connecticut as well.
After
all that, the left-hander will then have a two-week break before
defending the Genesis Scottish Open title back on home soil at The
Renaissance Club in East Lothian.
Scot sits 52nd in FedEx Cup Standings
MacIntyre
sits 52nd in the FedEx Cup Standings, having teed up in 12 events on
the US circuit this year and recording two top-ten finishes. He tied for
sixth in the WM Phoenix Open and ended up ninth in The Players
Championship.
He
talked during last week’s PGA of America major, though, about how he
was feeling “behind” where he wants to be at this stage of the season
and a disappointing weekend at Quail Hollow after being in the top ten
at the halfway stage wasn’t what he was looking for either.
After being part of a winning team on his debut in the event in 2023,
Bob MacIntyre is determined to be part of Europe’s Ryder Cup defence at
Bethpage Black in September | Andrew Redington/Getty Images
However,
the fact he’s playing in big event after big event means the Scot just
needs one really good week and even a couple of decent ones to achieve
his goals for this year.
The
top 70 in the FedEx Cup Standings after the Wyndham Championship at the
end of July/beginning of August get into the FedEx St Jude Championship
- the first FedEx Cup Play-Off event.
It’s
then the top 50 on the points list who qualify for the BMW Championship
in Maryland before the leading 30 progress to The Tour Championship in
Atlanta towards the end of August.
Oban man’s main goal is to make Ryder Cup team again
His
main 2025 goal, of course, is to play for Europe in a second successive
Ryder Cup and that’s what will be driving him more than anything else
over the next five weeks and all the way through to the end of the
qualification battle at the conclusion of the Betfred British Masters at
The Belfry the same week as the Tour Championship in the US.
In
other events this week, two-time winner Colin Montgomerie is being
joined in flying the Saltire by Stephen Gallacher and Greig Hutcheon in
the $3.5m Senior PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club in
Bethesda in Maryland.
And,
on the DP World Tour, it’s a Soudal Open assignment at Rinkven
International Golf Club in Antwerp for Ewen Ferguson, Calum Hill, Connor
Syme, Grant Forrest and Scott Jamieson.
