Robert McIntyre made history this week as he became just the third Scottish male golfer to reach the top five in the Official World Golf Ranking, a fantastic feat for this working class young lad from the Scottish port of Oban, taught to play by his greenskeeper father, Dougie at Glencruitten GC.
A four-time DP World Tour winner, two-time PGA TOUR winner and member of two victorious Ryder Cup teams, this is the latest reward for a fantastically consistent run of play from the 29-year-old who has not missed a cut since the Masters.
He joins Sandy Lyle and Colin Montgomerie as the only Scots to crack the top five.
MacIntyre first entered the all-important top 50 just under five years ago but only truly established himself in that company with his victory at the 2024 RBC Canadian Open which moved him from 76th to 39th.
He has not left the top 50 since and just weeks after his triumph in Canada he claimed an emotional home win at the Genesis Scottish Open which lifted him to a then career-high of 16th.
A first move into the top ten came after he finished second at the BMW Championship in August and he continued to rack up points, winning the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and securing back-to-back top tens in the season-ending DP World Tour Play-Offs.
He then finished 12th at the Hero World Challenge and started 2026 with a tie for fourth at the Sony Open in Hawaii before a tie for 38th at last week's American Express moved him above Xander Schauffele and up to World Number Five.
Lyle was World Number 3 when the Rankings were first released in 1986 and spent a total of 16 weeks in the top five before Montgomerie became a regular fixture after first entering it in December 1995.
He would stay in the top ten from May 1994 to June 2001, spending 158 weeks in the top five and peaking at World Number Two.
Montgomerie was last in the top five on April 29, 2001 and now - over 9,000 days later - the Saltire is flying high again thanks to MacIntyre.
Congratulations Bob!
europeantour.com
Bryan Angus (edit)
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