CNN
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When Robert Macintyre lost the British Amateur Championship final in 2016, he thought his dream was over; he was just 19 years old, and he was absolutely distraught.
“I remember pretty much crying the whole way home,” he recalled to CNN Sports, “because I thought I’m never going to get to play The Masters, never going to get to play the US Open or The Open in my life.”
Now 28, Macintyre is preparing to play The Masters at Augusta for a third time, and he admits that he was “small minded” to react so fatefully to a round of golf. But he says he’s just so competitive that he couldn’t help it.
“If I got beat at something…
