Robert MacIntyre received plenty of abuse from the American fans at Bethpage Black during the Ryder Cup last year.
MacIntyre has always embraced any form of hardship.
The Scot is a dogged competitor and seems to thrive when his back is up against the wall.
Robert MacIntyre actually likes it that way as well. He made it to the very top of the game the hard way.
Nothing has been spoon-fed to the man from Oban in Scotland.
However, there were times during the Ryder Cup last year when even MacIntyre found it difficult to focus on his game, such was the ferocity of some of the abuse being hurled in his direction.
Robert MacIntyre says whether Ryder Cup fan abuse affected him
When speaking to GOLF.com, MacIntyre spoke about the abuse he received at Bethpage Black in September of last year.
“Yeah, it was difficult,“ MacIntyre admitted.
“There were a lot of personal things getting shouted.
“I think on the Friday, I let it affect me a little bit, and then I used some things from past experiences to help me on Saturday.
“A great result we got on the Saturday, me and Victor, and then, yeah, it was just literally on Sunday, it was just about, how do we win the Ryder Cup?
“In the end, we needed the one point because of Victor’s injury.
“So I was like, well, my point is, my half point now is becoming really important, and that’s what the guys said to me walking up 17 when I was one down, it was like, ‘we need your half point or a point’.
“We just wanted to win the Ryder Cup and we done the job.“
Robert MacIntyre thought Europe were going to lose the Ryder Cup
MacIntyre was asked whether there was any point during the Sunday singles when he believed that the Americans would complete what would have been a historic comeback.
“There was a lot of talk about the atmosphere and everything,“ the Scot replied.
“We knew what we were going into.
“The performance that every single one of them put in, that Friday, Saturday, even Sunday, I mean, I thought the world was ending on Sunday. I won’t lie.
“I thought we were going to lose the Ryder Cup, because it was just everything that could go wrong was going wrong.
“Every game that went up 18 went the wrong way.“
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