Robert MacIntyre leads 2025 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship with Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood in mix
A week after the Ryder Cup 2025, the members of the victorious European team continue their good shape through the pond. On the shoulders of the years consecutive to Carnousie Golf Links and Kingsbarns Golf Links, Robert Macintyre will take a share of the head of the Alfred Dunhill Links championship in 2025 in the weekend at 12 years under Richard Sterne.
Macintyre will dispute his third round to the old course in St. Andrews before a cut is made after 54 holes. The last round of the competition will again see the rest of the field going to the old course.
“It was almost a perfect golf round, especially once the time has entered, just a good round,” said Macintyre.
Wind winds and harassment rains posed many problems for players in the second round – and caused a stop in the afternoon – but did not make the momentum of Macintyre. A quick start to its first nine saw it adding three circles to its dashboard in the first four holes before a healthy power supply is emerged to close its first nine (the nine seconds in Kingsbarns).
Time has persisted, just like Macintyre, on the outside half of the property. By exchanging a birdie and a bogey through the first two holes on the golf course, the robust left kept the hammer and shook three other birdies on its nine backs to match its 33 opening with another. His last of the day on the 9th par-5 was enough to give Macintyre a share of the head, a blow of Louis Oosthizen.
“Just play the ball very well,” said Macintyre. “I thought that I had controlled my flights very well. It’s difficult when it has this wind. It is difficult to hit the ball well with the wind. So I had to try to fight the wind on certain holes and I was not comfortable. But I made beautiful shots. Yeah, I fucked myself in the wind.”
Macintyre is not the only player of blue and gold to overcome the rapid turnover of Bethpage Black. The Englishman and former winner of the Matt Fitzpatrick tournament continues his series of coherence and is only four behind his teammate after towers of 67 and 69 on Carnousie and Kingsbarns.
Tyrrell Hatton and Tommy Fleetwood also have a chance to go to the second half of this tournament a worse than Fitzpatrick at 7 sous. Meanwhile, the double major champion Dustin Johnson dazzled with a first 64 in Carnoustie, but supported it with a 77 Friday to Kingsbarns to send his name tumbled in the classification not thanks to playing his last six holes in 6 years including a triple Bogey-8 on his finisher.
