Robert MacIntyre Breaks Through For 1st PGA Tour Victory

Robert MacIntyre spoke to the media after the RBC Canadian Open, where he notched his first PGA Tour victory.

that was incredible it’s um everything that I’ve done in my life has been with the support of my family um the game of golf was kind of passed down the generations from I mean I got it from my dad and luckily he’s a head man in Obin at L cruin and we’ve got a house between where you cross the road for four holes over the road at Cru and we used to go out every night in the summer no matter the weather we’d play Four holes every night and he taught me the game of golf and then this week when I when I founded him to come and caddy for me to be honest I was just coming here to play a golf tournament there was no expectation there was a lot going on with with visas and stuff during the week and to win it with him in the bag is just to be honest I still can’t believe that it happened changes everything I mean this is my fifth event in a row as well I was planning to do US Open qualifier tomorrow 36 hes my dad in the bag thankfully that’s off the cards and you know what it’s just it’s a dream come true and I just can’t believe it’s it’s happened with with him in the bag I mean there’s been a lot going on with me for Cades and obviously I parted with Scotty last week and um I just came here I was happy I was in a good mind frame and I was just out there to play golf and hit the golf shots and add them up at the end and wasn’t until late on I really started to look at leader boards properly and see where I was and I mean we done it I knew I had a hell fight in me um I’ve been working hard really hard on the mental side of the game um because once we we picked apart the the game my game of golf we knew that or we realized that the game of golf isn’t the problem it’s I’m the problem and I’ve worked I’ve worked really hard at that um with my team and I’ve said it probably for the last four or five weeks that the mental side’s so important to me and I it just this reiterates it it’s yesterday when it wasn’t going well my dad just said what have you been working on what are you doing hold that P and 10 and we just switched into gear um but it just shows that I can I can compete at the top level um I always knew I could but until you do it you really don’t know yeah well I’ve not even spoken to my mom my family my team my managers I mean I’m guessing I’m going to have to I [Laughter] mean I mean I’d love to go home for a party but I think um I think we’ll probably play next week to be honest it wasn’t really the focus it was more the said it yesterday it’s he’s wanting me to do well just because I’m blood there’s no yeah he’s going to get a nice paycheck out of it and my mom and dad will be mortgage free now and life’s looking a little bit better on that side of things but he just wants me to do well because I’m his son and there’s no there’s no angles to it there’s nothing it’s just just sheer fight for me and I mean I fight for him as well and coming down the last day when I hit that 7 hour and I watched it in the sky and I knew it was it was never enough Club so I hit it as hard as I could and it was perfect as soon as I hit it I looked up was perfect and actually a little tear M cuz I knew that one’s going to be close and I still had a job to do but I just felt like the guy that’s properly taught me the game of golf I’m I’m going to win a tournament with him in my bag and it’s just it is so special he’ll do all right um I think I got to get rid of some money just now for tax reasons um but he’ll do he’ll do nicely out of it he deserves it look we’ he was a caddy for the week but the end of the day he’s my dad and it was just the emotion that you seen at the end was just almost out of sheered disbelief that we’ done it with him in the bag I mean the amount of work that the cadis do we can week out which is unbelievable help and then I just do it with my dad that’s got a yardage book of me I mean he he lost the yardage Bo once he couldn’t get in on Monday into didn’t have credentials it was I wouldn’t have thought it 100% that there was a lot the rider cup helped me massively and that man Justin Rose helped me a lot um I played with him Sunday at the PJ just recently and he was making a run and I just I watched the way he done things we didn’t speak a lot when we were out there because we both had a job to do and he was going along nicely I wasn’t doing great but I watch him a learn when someone’s doing something better than me I watch him learn and take things from it and he also gave me a few pointers when we’re playing rder cup I mean yeah the guy is one of the best British golfers ever um I got to play Ridder cup with them but the whole experience of the rider cup and been part of a winning team and um yeah I I think it helped massively and also Al been a kind of team sport guy it also pushed that a little bit more we go to Kevin and then John congratulations on I was wondering where you were when you made the call to your dad and what you said like when you asked him to car I don’t know I think I was in I I think I was in a house in in Dallas um like me and Scotty done done all right we played what we done top 10 at Zurich with we done we had a chance to win at Mortal Beach but it just wasn’t I just didn’t feel the connection um as much as I would have wanted but he done a great job and I just phoned my dad and I was like are you able to caddy or to be honest I try to get other people but they didn’t want to do a one weer um and I’ve got a lot to a lot of decisions to make about going forward my dad’s not going to do that full time um he’s going to go home and get back on the Moors and work at Cru but yeah just effing out for Dad