Confidence from taking down phenom Champ
Farms Championship last month. Macintyre said: “From playing with Cameron, you could see that when he is at his best, he is just going to be unstoppable.
“He cruised through the Web.com and now it looks like he is going to cruise on the PGA Tour. “Even that brings confidence to your own game, seeing guys like that who I have played against – and beaten – round a course that they knew better than us.
“For sure, it gives you a shot in the arm, seeing what he has done already. It’s kind of the same steps I’m trying totake.
“I didn’t win on the Challenge Tour, but finished second twice, so I’m just going to push on and see how far I can go.”
Macintyre, who is coached by Kingsfield-based David Burns, begins his 2019 campaign in Hong Kong at the end of this month. Given he was winning on the lower tier MENA Tour in Kuwait in just his second pro start in October, 2017, it has been a spectacular rise.
“It is a dream come true,” the 22-year-old admitted.
“Everyone sets out as a professional golfer to try to reach the top of the game and this is the first step to achieving that.
“To secure my European Tour card in my first year as a pro is even more special.
“At the start of the year, my goal was just to keep my card on the Challenge Tour.
“Once I had achieved that, I kept resetting goals and just kept on going.
“I missed four cuts at the start of the season, so it’s not all been smooth riding.
“I also missed the first event in Kenya in March, which was big money, through illness.
“It was backs against the wall before I started, but I kept fighting.”
The Scots contingent on the European Tour could be set to be further boosted with the likes of Connor Syme and three-time winner, Marc Warren, currently in action at the six-round Q School.