You better believe Robert MacIntyre had a moment last Sunday. After leading the BMW Championship by four heading into the final round, the Scottish lefty let it slip through his fingers with a frustrating 73.
MacIntyre, clearly gutted, didn’t hold back with reporters. His words? “Right now, I want to go and smash up my golf clubs to be honest with you.” Brutally honest. And we’ve all been there just maybe not on international TV with millions on the line.
Enter his caddie, Mike Burrows—basically the unsung hero of the week. While MacIntyre was apparently on the verge of going full “rockstar-wrecking-a-hotel-room” on his golf bag, Burrows played bodyguard for the equipment.
“The caddie took them away before I got a hold of them,” MacIntyre said Thursday after carding a redemption-filled 64 at East Lake, just four days later.
Yup, clubs intact. Dignity mostly intact. Game? Very much still there.
Sitting in third place and just three shots off Russell Henley’s lead, MacIntyre is doing what pros do—shake it off, get back to work, and use the pain to fuel the fire. But he’s not pretending he’s processed it all.
“I have not done a debrief enough,” he admitted. He did squeeze in a sit-down with his team on Monday—a manager, a caddie, a coach, and probably a lot of deep sighs—but the real autopsy on what went sideways last Sunday is still coming.
And while the win slipped away, he’s not walking away empty-handed—he’s officially back on Team Europe for the 2025 Ryder Cup. That’s right, the man is Bethpage-bound alongside the likes of Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, and Tyrrell Hatton. Talk about solid company.
Rasmus Hojgaard is expected to round out the automatic qualifiers. At the same time, the rest—Jon Rahm, Viktor Hovland, Matt Fitzpatrick, and the rest of the usual suspects—are all but locked in as Captain Luke Donald’s picks.
So yeah—MacIntyre’s Sunday may have stung. But the guy’s still got gas in the tank, a team on his back, and a shot at the FedEx Cup just days later.
