GENESIS SCOTTISH OPEN

July 9, 2026

Robert MacIntyre

The Renaissance Club

Quick Quotes

Q. You've opened your account with a 3-under par 67. How would you describe your play today?

ROBERT MacINTYRE: Yeah, very solid. Tee-to-green, I thought I was decent. Didn't hole as many putts as I would have hoped for but I just didn't read the speed of the greens at the start. Wasn't reading the speed, taking it slow but overall a good day's work.

Q. Playing with two other past Scottish Open champions, and home fans normally give you such amazing support?

ROBERT MacINTYRE: Yeah, every time I come back and play in Scotland, it's unbelievable. Certainly know how to get behind their own, and today was no different. Having the support is obviously massive, and having two other players like that alongside brings up the atmosphere.

Q. You said the mental side of the game is far more important to the physical side to you. Can you elaborate on that for the viewers?

ROBERT MacINTYRE: Everyone knows that I'm like a kettle, always boiling away, ready to erupt. It's one of them ones where I've just got to, when life is good off the golf course, that's one part, and it's going on the golf course and it's being able to accept -- my biggest thing is acceptance. And everyone is the same. If you can accept the bad, you probably won't play many bad rounds of golf.

And it's like that shot on 18, my last hole there. Hit a lovely 5-iron, a couple of yards right of the target. I think it's landed just short of the pin on the slope. It's ran all the way down and come back in the bunker. If I'm not in a good head space, I'm going ballistic. How unlucky is that? Yeah, it's a bit unlucky.

But I know I've got the skill and tools to deal with the next shot, whereas when I'm not in that mind frame, it's like, I'm dead in here, I'm in the worst spot possible. But when the mind frame is the way it is now, I know I can hit those bunker shots. Just go and do it.