Robert MacIntyre wasn’t about to let a pesky drone get in the way of his first PGA Tour victory.
The Scottish golfer emotionally won the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday with his father serving as his caddie, but MacIntyre admittedly was angered more than once by a CBS camera drone buzzing around him like a “big wasp” throughout his final round and was granted a request for its removal.
“If it didn’t go away, I was going to start throwing my clubs at it. That’s how annoyed I was getting,” MacIntyre said afterward. “I was standing on the drivable par-4 and when everyone’s silent, and it’s all you can hear. I mean, it’s a big wasp. I asked ’em to get rid of it and they did.”
At one point in his round, the 27-year-old MacIntyre backed away from a shot and was heard on the CBS broadcast saying to an official: “I told you once, I’m not gonna tell you again … That’s ridiculous.”
CBS apparently grounded the drone following MacIntyre’s gripes, with announcer Jim Nantz saying on the air, “We’re going to have to back the drone away from him because he’s hearing everything.”
“The drone’s headed to the airport,” quipped analyst Dottie Pepper.
MacIntyre experienced different emotions after tapping in his final putt to close out a one-stroke victory over American Benjamin Griffin.
He tearfully hugged his father, Dougie, a greenskeeper in Scotland who flew in to caddie for his son at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club.
“This is the guy that’s taught me the game of golf,” MacIntyre said during his walk-off interview with CBS. “I just can’t believe I’ve done this with him on the bag.”
