HAMILTON, Ontario — Robert MacIntyre made a 30-foot eagle putt on the par-5 seventeenth to cap a late surge Saturday and take a four-stroke lead into the ultimate spherical of the RBC Canadian Open.
Tied for the second-round lead with Ryan Fox, MacIntyre shot a 4-under 66 to get to 14-under 196 at Hamilton Golf and Nation Membership. The 27-year-old Scottish left-hander is winless in 44 profession PGA Tour begins.
“I believe it’s my perspective now,” MacIntyre mentioned. “I’ve spoken about all of it week. I’ve been in a great mindset from the get-go and had zero expectation in the beginning of the week.”
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Mackenzie Hughes, making an attempt to develop into the second straight Canadian to win the nationwide championship, was tied for second with Fox and Ben Griffin.
“Clearly, quite a lot of it is going to depend upon what Robert does,” Hughes mentioned. “I imply, if he performs an amazing spherical of golf tomorrow he’ll be virtually unimaginable to catch. That’s why we play 4 days. You by no means know, bizarre issues have occurred earlier than.”
From close by Dundas, Hughes shot a 67. He missed a 9-foot eagle putt on 17, then bogeyed the par-4 18th.
“Beginning the day, I knew Saturday’s tougher than Friday, and Sunday shall be tougher than Saturday,” Hughes mentioned. “So actually going into it figuring out that I form of ready myself to be in the correct mindset. For me it was not making an attempt too arduous, not forcing issues. For probably the most half I might say I did a fairly good job.”
Final 12 months at Oakdale in Toronto, Nick Taylor made a 72-foot eagle putt on the fourth gap of a playoff in opposition to Tommy Fleetwood to develop into the primary Canadian to win the occasion since 1954.
Fox had a 70. He performed the primary 5 holes in 4 underneath with a eagle and two birdies, then made 4 bogeys on the ultimate 13 — three in a four-hole span in the course of the again 9.
Griffin bogeyed the 18th in a 65.
Fleetwood (64) was 9 underneath together with Sam Burns (67), Hint Crowe (67) and Joel Dahmen (69).
“It’s important to simply take what the golf course provides you,” Fleetwood mentioned.
Two-time Canadian Open champion Rory McIlroy was tied for eleventh at 7 underneath after a 65. He gained in 2019 the final time the match was in Hamilton and once more in 2022 at St. George’s in Toronto.
“I really feel like an honorary Canadian at this level,” McIlroy mentioned. “The assist I get right here is superb. I hold saying it, however only a pleasure to play in an environment like that.
Taylor missed the lower with rounds of 72 and 71.
MacIntyre performed the primary 13 holes in 1 over, making three birdies and 4 bogeys. After a bogey on the par-3 thirteenth, he started the late cost with a 13-foot birdie putt on the par-4 14th. He ran in a 50-footer on the par-4 fifteenth and a 10-footer on the par-3 sixteenth earlier than holing the eagle putt on 17.
“I simply caught in there,” MacIntyre mentioned. “I didn’t have it nice in the beginning, however I really feel like every time I dropped a shot I bounced again with perhaps two good pictures into the inexperienced, and I might decide up a shot again. I simply, it by no means acquired away from me. A little bit of luck, a little bit of myself being staying within the second, staying calm. I acquired my reward with the putter in the long run.”
The previous McNeese State star performed on Europe’s successful 2023 Ryder Cup staff and has two European tour victories, the 2020 Aphrodite Hills Cyprus Showdown and 2022 Italian Open.
His father, Dougie, is working as his caddie this week.
“He’s been via thick and skinny with me,” MacIntyre mentioned. “He taught me how one can play the sport of golf.”
