Bob MacIntyre has revealed that he felt like curling and crying after squeezing into the weekend at The Open.
The 25-year-old Oban ace just made it on the cut mark of level par. It was MacIntyre's 10th successive cut success in the majors. But his total meant he was in the third pairing out in the third round at St Andrews, shooting a best of the week 69 to improve to three-under-par.
And after back-to-back top-10 finishes in his two previous Opens, MacIntyre has felt the pressure of expectation generated by the game’s tartan army. He said: “The fan support is absolutely brilliant, but I’ve been feeling it because you know how much it means to them. There are so many people supporting me and it means so much. I wasn’t going to let them down, but I was almost trying too hard.
