'unless I Get Hot Start, It's Out The Window' - Macintyre Suffers Open Frustration

It's astir apt a measurement of really acold Bob MacIntyre has travel that he goes into nan last time of an Open Championship wrong nan apical 10 but emotion frustrated.

The Scot started his 3rd information astatine Royal Portrush 5 disconnected pacesetter Scottie Scheffler, but vanished it 8 backmost from nan peerless leader aft a 70.

The world number 14 is not retired of contention astatine six under, but it's difficult to opportunity he's successful it either. "Unless I get disconnected to a hot, basking start, it's astir apt retired nan window," MacIntyre conceded.

"If I spot myself adjacent to nan lead and wrong a fewer shots, past we'll propulsion everything astatine it. But seeing nan leaderboard, it's astir apt conscionable huddled together for position."

MacIntyre had vowed to not beryllium frightened of nan imaginable of getting successful amongst it aft his second-round 66.

But a precocious burst of debased scoring precocious connected Friday near him "almost successful tears" connected his coach and nudged him further distant from nan acme by nan clip he started connected Saturday.

And arsenic nan sun shone, nan 28-year-old recovered himself incapable to return advantage of nan much forgiving conditions successful nan measurement others could.

Sure, his scorecard showed nan aforesaid spray of reddish arsenic astir of nan field, but 3 ill-timed bogeys interupted immoderate murmurings of momentum.

Three opening pars, past a dropped changeable connected four, caused him to gaffe down nan order, but past his fortunes flipped.

Birdie connected six instantly repaired nan damage, earlier a close-range eagle connected nan par 5 seventh hoisted MacIntyre correct backmost into nan conversation.

Was that nan spark? No. Bogey connected 8 stymied that.

And 15-footer for birdie connected 11 - his longest of nan week - turned retired to beryllium his past flicker. A flicker extinguished connected 14.

When his attack from nan mediate of nan fairway recovered a greenside bunker, his nine went cartwheeling aft it amid a unreality of elite swearing.

"I deliberation it's adjacent crippled to suffer nan crippled each now and again," MacIntyre said, erstwhile pressed connected it afterwards. "A spot of anger came out."

Three shots later, he scribbed down different bogey. Baw burst. Four closing pars were purely perfunctory.

"The tougher nan test, nan much I consciousness I tin support that discipline," he added. "The much there's a birdie fest and a shootout, that's erstwhile I suffer it properly.

"I thought stepping distant from present past nighttime that I wouldn't beryllium much than 3 shots back, but ended up 5 shots backmost from nan champion subordinate successful nan world.

"Now tomorrow is astir going retired location and finishing arsenic precocious arsenic we can."