On Friday, after second-round play at the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship, a reporter asked him about shinty, a sport that can get physical, and golf, which does not. And that means you ‘fight’ in shinty.
But how do you ‘fight’ in golf?
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“Yeah, I’m not very calm on the golf course,” MacIntyre said. “But shinty is a physical contact sport where the fight is not so much physical fight, but it’s like, don’t go in half-hearted; don’t go 50/50 in a tackle; that’s when you get injured. Go 100 percent in a tackle, and hopefully you win the tackle. If not, you get back up and you go again.
“Golf is exact — that’s the way I treat it. Yesterday I hit a bad tee shot on 12 into the water. When it’s a tough test, I find it easier, when you know people are making bogeys. But it was just get there, make a drop, think about what you’re doing, and it’s more of a switch on for me. In golf, it’s more focusing more and just do not give up, no matter what. Do not give up. There’s times when it’s not going well and you want to throw in the towel, but it’s not what I do.
“For me, it’s just try your hardest until it’s done and someone tells you to stop.”
Do not give up. Do not throw in the towel. Do not stop. Not now. Sunday will be a consequential day in golf. For the pros across various tours. For amateurs. For you.
Here are 12 (!) ways how:
1. PGA Tour Tour Championship spots
The BMW Championship is the second week of the three-week-long PGA Tour playoffs, and another player cutdown will be finalized after Sunday’s final round. Last week, following the end of the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the top 50 in the season-long standings moved on to the BMW. After this week, the top 30 advance to next week’s Tour Championship.
There, the format has changed. All players will start at even on the leaderboard, and the winner will also win the season-long race — and last year’s champion said it was a “cool format.”
“In order to win the FedExCup,” Scottie Scheffler said, “you have to play good golf at the right time. In our sport, in order to accomplish what you want to accomplish, you have to play good golf at the right time. If you want to win major championships, you have to play great golf major championship weeks. If I want to win the FedEx Cup this year, I have to have a great week next week.
