Robert MacIntyre outlines next major goal

What next in the burgeoning career of Robert MacIntyre?

It’s a question worth pondering as MacIntyre winds down his season in Dubai, 11 months on from his debut as a PGA Tour card holder at the Sony Open in Hawaii.

In that whirlwind period, the Oban man has claimed two transformational victories – first with father Dougie on the bag at the Canadian Open – and then realising his dream by winning the Genesis Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club in July.

The world No.16 has also struggled with loneliness after upping sticks from Oban to Orlando to take full advantage of securing one of the ten PGA Tour cards available on the DP World Tour.

“There’s nothing like home. Scotland, this is where I want to be,” he said before winning his home Open in East Lothian.

When MacIntyre does return home from the Middle East after his last tournament of the season, he will finally have chance to reflect.

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“I haven’t had a full sit-down debrief with everyone within the team,” he told reporters ahead of this week’s DP World Tour Championship at Jumeriah Golf Estates. “I have not done that yet.

“But when I do, even when I look at my phone, when I’m trying to take a photo on my own and I went through it, things pop up because I’m scrolling, and it’s like, wow, that happened, wow, that happened, and wow, that happened. “It is just incredible to think that I’ve achieved a lot of my dreams in one season, in one swoop, and it’s been brilliant.

“But there’s still hopefully more to come.”

Such heady success raises expectations on MacIntyre, who is hungry for more in 2025.

The 28-year-old has two top-tens in majors so far in his career but wants to go up another level in a bid to compete for one of the ‘Big Four’ next season.

“It’s trying to work out what to do to now get to that next page, and it’s trying not to lose sight of what’s got you here, and not changing, not being like a revolution of your whole game,” he stressed.

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“It’s just about, ‘this has got you here. This can improve. Let’s try and tweak it a little bit.’ Don’t try and overwrite the whole thing. Stick to the basics and then just tweak little bits to get you to the next level to major championships.”

Like MacIntyre did in 2023, ten more DP World Tour players will earn access to PGA Tour cards after the season-ender at the Earth Course on Sunday.

“Career changing, a hundred percent,” MacIntyre said when asked what was at stake for the hopefuls.

“I’m in a position now that I can pick. I’ve now got to the top level of professional golf, the top 25 percent of professional golfers.

“You can then pick your schedule and you’re in all the major events and you’re in all the top events you can play in and you can pick-and-choose, and that’s where you want to be.

“Last year I obviously played a lot and that’s because you have to play the events you get in. I said it from when these cards came about, what an opportunity it is to get as high up the world of golf as you can.

“I think the majority of golfers out here have got that dream, as well. Luckily I got one of them cards, and then I’ve worked hard and I’ve got the breaks that I’ve got, and I’ve got to where I am now.”

Ben Parsons joined bunkered as a Content Producer in 2023 and is the man to come to for all of the latest news, across both the professional and amateur games. Formerly of The Mirror and Press Association, he is a member at Halifax Golf Club and is a long-suffering fan of both Manchester United and the Wales rugby team.