Bob MacIntyre confesses his head is GONE as golf hero places himself on lockdown and shuts everyone out

Bob MacIntyre is placing himself in voluntary lockdown after confessing that he was running on empty at the Dunhill Links Championship.

The Oban ace still managed to finish in a share of 25th at the Old Course on Sunday. But after his most successful season so far with huge wins at the Canadian Open and the Scottish Open the 28-year-old says he has nothing left to give. The star of Scottish golf declared: “I can’t wait to get a break and shut myself off from absolutely everyone and everything. It’s needed majorly. My head’s gone completely now and I am not planning to do anything. I am not touching the clubs for the next two weeks, maybe even three weeks. I wanted to break them at the end.

"I’ll literally just shut off from everyone apart from my family. I’m going to switch the phone off, close down social media, the lot, and come off everything. I intend to shut myself away because the last wee while has been a bit of carnage and I need a reset. Some days I have been getting up feeling like I have slept great and yet still felt tired.”

Compatriot David Law was also left drained in the wake of his Dunhill roller coaster - but for a very different reason. The 33-year-old from Aberdeen was riding high in joint third spot at halfway in the £3.75 million event and eyeing securing his card after slipping to 141st in the Race to Dubai. But a disastrous weekend collapse in the shape of back-to-back 75s plunged him to joint 64th at the Home of Golf where he picked up just £8,545 instead of a six-figure pay-cheque.

Worse, Law actually dropped a further two spots on the money-list and now has just three tournaments left to rescue his season. Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts came within a shot of creating a Dunhill fairytale when he