McGinley – talking alongside colleagues Wealthy Lerner and Brandel Chamblee, with whom he’ll cowl the US Open for the Golf Channel – believes Shinnecock’s fast-running fairways and breezy check will swimsuit MacIntyre.
“He is a dogged competitor. He is received an enormous coronary heart. There was a purpose he was performed down the order on the final day of the singles. We’ve got a number of perception in him,” added McGinley, an advisor to captain Luke Donald on each MacIntyre’s Ryder Cup appearances.
“He loves the battle. I am an enormous admirer of his sport. He is a beautiful putter, he is gained on hyperlinks programs and rising up in Scotland, he is very conversant in the form of situations at Shinnecock Hills.”
The set-up at Shinnecock might favour MacIntyre, who’s an detached forty sixth in driving accuracy on the PGA Tour this season.
World primary Scottie Scheffler made a scouting journey to Lengthy Island a number of weeks in the past and was shocked on the relative width, by US Open requirements, of the fairways.
The tough past the lower grass is ominous, however the Open champion believes the true check on this US Open can be on the slippery greens.
It matches the profile of former champions at Shinnecock, with Corey Pavin – a brief hitter who dazzled with a wedge and a putter in his fingers – profitable there in 1995 and Goosen placing with astonishing contact and nerve to win in 2004.
MacIntyre can be buoyed by his Canadian Open efficiency however will he’ll want all of his famous short-game prowess and a cool head to prosper this week and go one higher than the fantastic near-miss of 12 months in the past.
