Bob MacIntyre delivers his verdict on 2025 campaign worth $10m

In signing off with a 68 that contained eight birdies, Bob MacIntyre finished his 2025 calendar campaign by claiming 12th spot behind Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama in a 20-man field for the Tiger Woods-hosted PGA Tour event at Albany.

The effort earned the Oban man a cheque for $190,000, taking his final haul for this year on the US circuit to a whopping $8,467,191 and his career earnings on it to $16,340,586. He also earned around $1.4m purely from DP World Tour events and a further $400,000 for finishing a career-best sixth in the Race to Dubai to take his total earnings for the year north of $10m.

In 23 events on the PGA Tour, MacIntyre missed just two cuts - one came in the Genesis Invitational and the other in The Masters. He recorded six top-finishes, including runner up to J.J. Spaun in the US Open, and had 11 top-25 finishes.

Add in the fact he broke into the top ten in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time, won for a second time on Scottish soil when landing the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews and helped Europe retain the Ryder Cup in New York and it’s been another fine year for the 29-year-old.

“I’m a big believer that it’s about getting statistically better every year,” MacIntyre told The Scotsman. “Results take care of themselves. It’s difficult to win anywhere in the world. But, if you can get better year on year, then that’s all you can do and that’s all I’ve ever tried to do since I got to a certain level and realised that I could do something in this game.

“How do we improve? We do something. Then it’s about how do we improve? Do you know what, it’s sometimes not about improving every part of the game. Like, it’s just sustaining certain things. Keep things at a certain level. See the things that are potentially a weakness and just get a little bit better at that.”

‘I honestly believe I can do anything I want in the game of golf’

The left-hander finished the year 14th in strokes gained in total with a figure of 0.894 while a scoring average of 69.54 left him sitting 24th in that category. Improved putting overall lifted him to 39th in strokes gained on the greens with 0.251.

“It’s not massive things,” he added. “It’s not like gaining a shot with this or that. It’s fractions of shots per round that you are trying to gain and, yeah, when you look at it, I’m in a position right now where, if the cards fall my way and I play well at the right time, I honestly believe I can do anything I want in the game of golf.

“I’m hitting more fairways, whether it is one or two per round, which then leads in to hitting more greens because you are on the fairway. Greens in regulation have gone back up, which is quite a boring stat.

“At the end of the day, the best players in the world are the guys who hit most greens because it’s less stress or it correlates that the best players are the ones with the highest greens in regulation. It’s stuff like that.

“There’s little things like wedges that I am trying to improve. Again, though, it’s not a case of trying to improve things massively which then has an effect on something else. It’s all about finding a balance.”

MacIntyre will start his 2026 campaign by heading to Hawaii for the Sony Open in mid-January before then teeing up in the The American Express in California the following week.