Robert MacIntyre suggests how close he now is to Scottie Scheffler’s level after winning the Alfred Dunhill Links

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Robert MacIntyre showed few signs of experiencing a Ryder Cup hangover as he won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship by four shots on Sunday.

Robert MacIntyre has secured a fourth DP World Tour title. The 29-year-old posted three rounds of 66 to triumph at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. It is his second victory on home soil after last year’s Scottish Open win.

MacIntyre has developed into one of the best players on the planet. He has registered top 10 finishes at three of the four majors since making his Ryder Cup debut in 2023. Of course, he ended up in second place at the US Open at Oakmont in June following J.J. Spaun‘s superb finish.

He will need no one to tell him that the next step is winning one of the four biggest prizes in the game. But obviously, there is one large obstacle in the way in the form of Scottie Scheffler.

Robert MacIntyre outlines how close he thinks he now is to Scottie Scheffler’s level

Scheffler currently holds two of the four majors. And while he had a pretty miserable Ryder Cup, there is no question that he is the player everyone is trying to catch right now.

Interestingly, despite his victory on Sunday, MacIntyre suggested that Scheffler is still some out in front of him as he was asked what level he could now reach.

“I always say to these boys behind you there that I honestly don’t know how good I can be at golf. I know the level I’m at just now and I know the effort that goes into it, and I know the effort, the things that I have to change that could potentially help me but also hurt me. But as a team, me, everyone on my team, we’ll go away and work out — I think I’m ninth in the world. Scottie Scheffler is miles ahead of everyone else. So he’s hard to catch right now,” he said.

“At the right time, the biggest thing is running your own race. I’m doing all right just now in my race, and if I can just keep moving forward, then yeah, I don’t know how good I can be. But I know one thing is I’ll try my best.”

How Robert MacIntyre’s PGA Tour stats in 2025 compare to Scottie Scheffler’s

Scheffler is reaching levels that the game has not seen since Tiger Woods. So it is little surprise that MacIntyre still feels some way adrift of the world number one.

Scheffler is the best player on the PGA Tour from tee to green, while he is still inside the top 20 for strokes gained around the green and putting. There is no obvious weakness within his game.

Having said that, MacIntyre does not appear to have a huge problem that he needs to address either. He is inside the top 60 on tour in every strokes gained category in 2025.

Clearly, Scheffler is generational in terms of the consistency he has. Scheffler has not finished outside the top 30 in an event since the 2024 BMW Championship. He has 17 top 10s in 19 starts this year.

But MacIntyre is proving more and more that he can compete with the very best. He had a brilliant opportunity to win this year’s BMW Championship before losing out to Scheffler.

He appears to be gaining more confidence every time he wins. With that, while catching Scheffler seems a long way away right now, there is no reason why he cannot set his sights on joining him as a major champion in the near future.