Robert MacIntyre: “I’ve got a chance to win a major championship. It’s what I’ve dreamed”

MacIntyre ends runner-up in the 125th edition of the US Open at Oakmont

all right two under 68 robert McIntyre great great playing out there can you just talk us through that final round yeah obviously it didn’t um get off to the best of starts i was two over through three and then hold a a lovely putt on on four par five for Eagle um and that kind of settled me down that got me into somewhat of a groove and back in the golf tournament um and then the back n was just all about fighting obviously rain delay not had my previous reind delay comebacks haven’t been strong and um today was the day that I said to myself why not why not be me today um when I was going round and I just trusted myself trusted my caddy Mike trusted all the work that I’ve done and we’re sitting here in the clubhouse nicely and just wait and see um we were just saying as you walked over it’s a little surreal for us we’re going to watch you watch what happens what is this like for you I mean a moment like this it’s almost a coin flip right now how does it feel to be you in this exact space and time feels great i’ve got a chance to win a major championship um it’s what I’ve dreamed of as a kid sitting back home in open watching all the majors um yeah it it feels unbelievable but again I might have I might have some work to do at what point in time today did you think you might have a chance to win this golf tournament i think when I I think I was walking up 14 or 12 and I seen I seen a leaderboard that was leader was at even par um I can’t remember where I was at i was at three over I think at the time and I for the whole week I’ve said level par in my head i’m just looking for four even pars and almost got there but not quite but I always thought I could I could really challenge even going into today but obviously the start wasn’t wasn’t a help when you guys went back out there what was the course conditions like and what was the toughest part of dealing with it from your perspective just getting back into a groove um it’s trying to build on the momentum that I had that I felt I was gaining birdie nine um 10 was playing absolute brutal into wind with the rain 11 in the rain i just try to get the T-shot in play and then the horn goes but it was just about sticking to what I do and get the ball back on the fairway priority one on the fairway and then and then go from there you had mentioned that the the goal of even par is that something that you typically do at tournaments or majors like this of setting uh target scores or is it a phenomenon of the US Open in this course that it it became kind of apparent that might be a good number i thought it was just this week to be honest i didn’t even think even par was possible at the start of the week um but with the softer conditions the last couple of days it gives you more of a chance but again drive it in the rough that doesn’t change is this a good weather day back home um when that rain came on I wouldn’t be outside um I’d be indoors like you guys i don’t fair weather golfer now i’ve moved to the PGA Tour how did you spend the break um I was I came in spoke to my girlfriend my best pal my manager we chilled out for 10 minutes and then I went up into the locker room dried off my shirt stole an air conditioning unit and pointed it towards the shirt um dried it off and I just kept stretching stayed loose went through my mobility stuff and then just got ready to go anyone say anything that encouraged you not one thing i just I’m a guy that believes thanks for the time Robert cheers guys where you gonna watch this Robert