by Bob Macintyre plans to kiss the Bethpage crowd during the Ryder Cup next month after learning a precious lesson in last week.
The Scottish rebounded the disappointment of losing an advance in Scottie Scheffler at the BMW championship on Sunday shooting six under 64 to be three in the lead of Russell Henley the opening day of the Tour championship in East Lake.
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But what has been more precious to the left-hander is that his experience in manipulation is targeted by spectators in the heat of a tête-à-tête against an American in the United States and he thinks that it will be paid in what should be a hostile atmosphere in New York.
Bob Macintyre intends to kiss the crowd to the Ryder Cup after learning a lesson by dealing with Hecklers last week (Stephanie Scarbrough / AP)
“There are things that I am going to learn this week or two days, Saturday, on Sunday, in particular, in particular, which will help me,” said Macintyre, who, in his third round, put his finger on his lips after having hoisted a putt and then pointed with his putter towards the fan who had sang.
“There are a few things I know I’m going to change. It will be the way I manage myself, not so much my attitude because I am fiery, I will always be ardent, I will always swear, shout, get angry.
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“But just the way I interacted with the crowd, I was trying to keep them away instead of doing what I did on Saturday and bring them to them.
“Last week, it was as if it was me and Mike (Burrows, his shopping cart) against the whole region, but that is part of it and it will be a big learning curve for me.”
Macintyre carded seven birdies, with his solitary bogey to come at 16 and he shares the third spouse with the teammate of the Ryder Cup, Tommy Fleetwood, who also had seven birdies after having opened with three in a row, dropping his only shot in the 10th.
Henley was in imperative fit with an eagle in the sixth allowing him to turn in 31 before finishing with five birdies in seven holes, but even then, the world number one is only two behind a 63 without imperfection.
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The game partner Rory McILroy finished five advantages after a fortuitous birdie at the last one, which even obtained the approval of Scheffler.
The world’s number two praised his shot to the Greenside, but he gunned a platform less than 18 feet from the spindle and took place a few seconds before the siren sounded so that the course was evacuated because of the approach of the storms.
“If he had not fallen and we had to fall, we might not be done,” said the North Irishman.
Scheffler was just as grateful by avoiding having to go back to Putt on Friday morning, especially since TEE times have already been presented due to weather forecasts.
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“I have never rooted so hard for someone’s ball to come back, apart from my partner in a team event, because we walk around 18 and Bones (Jim McKay, a former Caddy now TV journalist) told us that they were going to explode at any second,” said the PGA and the reigning champion.
“I watch his ball steal towards the gallery and I say to myself” Oh, my God, we have no way to finish this thing “, so I was relieved when I saw him come back to the green.”
