Scotsman Robert MacIntyre is never ever scared to voice his viewpoint, and his newest tirade shows that point even more.
After connecting for 25th at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, which Tyrrell Hatton won for a record 3rd time, MacIntyre strolled off the course and right away knocked the Old Course's penultimate hole, the popular par-4 17th.
“Blow it up,” MacIntyre informed Martin Dempster of The Scotsman after his round on Sunday.
“I do not believe there are numerous even worse holes in world golf.”
Called ‘The Road Hole,' the 17th functions a tee shot like no other worldwide. You need to strike a cut over the corner of the St. Andrews hotel, making the tee shot on this dogleg right totally blind. Out-of-bounds, for that reason, looms down the best side, which constantly shoots bursts of stress and anxiety through a gamer's mind. The technique does not get any much easier on this 495-yard leviathan. The putting surface area is pencil-thin, safeguarded by a main, notorious bunker that is almost difficult to get up-and-down out of. Beyond the green lies a roadway that offers the hole its name and simply past the pavement sits a centuries-old wall. Often, gamers have no option however to richoceht chip shots off the stone in an effort to get it back onto the green. They are typically not successful.
Rory McIlroy plays a shot from the roadway throughout The 150th Open at St. Andrews. Picture by Harry How/Getty Images
For these factors, birdies are sporadic.
“I believe it's a horrible hole off the back tee. It does not require to be improved, to bring enjoyment it requires to be a hole you have the ability to strike a golf shot into and not one where you simply struck it onto the green and attempt to get up and down,” MacIntyre discussed.
“It nearly plays like a par-5. They attempt to do things to this golf course that do not require to be done. [On Sunday,] I gunned a drive off the tee and after that a 4-iron and I was the outermost up the hole.”
MacIntyre has lots of factor to be furious with this hole. Throughout Saturday's 3rd round, he made a double-bogey 6 after his method landed except the green and except the Road Hole Bunker. He stopped working to get up-and-down to conserve bogey, not to mention par. Regardless of that, he still shot a 7-under 65, however he did not come close to carding that number throughout his last round on Sunday. MacIntyre might just summon a 2-under 70, not a bad rating offered the blustery conditions, however no place near as great as the round he kipped down on Saturday. MacIntyre handled to publish a much better rating on the 17th hole on Sunday, although he still dropped a shot, carding a bogey-five. He missed out on the green brief once again, stopping working to get up-and-down again.
Still, his top-25 surface at the Dunhill Links not does anything to his Race to Dubai ranking,
