MacIntyre tied for 25th at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Sunday at St. Andrews, but he could’ve placed higher if not for stumbling in both weekend rounds at the Road Hole, the par-4 17th. He made a double on Saturday and then had a bogey on Sunday, after which he had plenty to say about the hole.

After tying for 25th at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, which Tyrrell Hatton won for a record third time, MacIntyre walked off the course and immediately slammed the Old Course’s penultimate hole, the famous par-4 17th. “Blow it up,” MacIntyre told Martin Dempster of The Scotsman after his round on Sunday.

His remarks would have had Royal & Ancient members spluttering over their single-malt whiskies, but Robert MacIntyre has now issued an apology for comments made last weekend about the Old Course’s famous Road Hole.