One week after the 2025 Ryder Cup, members of the victorious European crew are persevering with their good type throughout the pond. On the shoulders of back-to-back 66s at Carnoustie Golf Hyperlinks and Kingsbarns Golf Hyperlinks, Robert MacIntyre will take a share of the lead on the 2025 Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship into the weekend at 12 below alongside Richard Sterne.
MacIntyre will contest his third spherical on the Previous Course at St. Andrews earlier than a minimize is made following 54 holes. The ultimate spherical of the competitors will see the rest of the sector take to the Previous Course as soon as once more.
“It was virtually an ideal spherical of golf, particularly as soon as the climate got here in, simply pretty spherical,” MacIntyre stated.
Whipping winds and pestering rains posed many issues for gamers within the second spherical — and brought about a stoppage in play within the afternoon — however did little to sluggish the momentum of MacIntyre. A fast begin to his entrance 9 noticed him add three circles to his scorecard within the first 4 holes earlier than a nutritious diet of pars emerged to shut out his first 9 (the second 9 at Kingsbarns).
Climate endured, as did MacIntyre, on the outward half of the property. Exchanging a birdie and a bogey throughout the primary two holes on the golf course, the sturdy left hander saved the hammer down and rattled off three extra birdies on his again 9 to match his opening 33 with one other. His final of the day on the par-5 ninth was sufficient to present MacIntyre a share of the lead, one stroke away from Louis Oosthuizen.
“Simply golfed the ball rather well,” MacIntyre stated. “Thought I managed my flights rather well. It is troublesome when it will get this windy. It exhausting to hit the ball good with the wind. So I used to be having to attempt to combat the wind on sure holes and wasn’t comfy. However I made some lovely pictures. Yeah, putted solidly within the wind.”
MacIntyre shouldn’t be the one participant from the blue and gold to beat the short turnaround from Bethpage Black. Englishman and former event winner Matt Fitzpatrick continues his string of consistency and sits solely 4 behind his teammate following rounds of 67 and 69 on Carnoustie and Kingsbarns.
Tyrrell Hatton and Tommy Fleetwood are additionally in with an opportunity heading into the second half of this event one worse than Fitzpatrick at 7 below. In the meantime, two-time main champion Dustin Johnson dazzled with a gap 64 at Carnoustie however backed it up with a 77 on Friday at Kingsbarns to ship his title tumbling down the leaderboard no due to enjoying his last six holes in a 6-over vogue together with a triple bogey-8 on his finisher.
