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"That's what pisses me off, because so many other people would lie about being able to hit that, but it's just like, I'm not going to hit it (the drain)," Thomas complained. The job is not even close to being done." "It's obviously a special place for me and to go one step further and win a US Open round here would be even more special. "The US amateur was one of the biggest achievements in my career and still is, and if I won a major here tomorrow it would definitely overtake it Fitzpatrick won the US Amateur at Brookline in 2013, the same year Justin Rose became the last Englishman to win the US Open at Merion. A victory on Sunday would see Fitzpatrick join Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win the US Amateur and US Open on the same course, Nicklaus doing so at Pebble Beach in 1961 and 1972.

Nine years after winning the US Amateur title at the same Massachusetts venue, Fitzpatrick shares the 54-hole lead with American Will Zalatoris, a shot ahead of ...

If that grandstand hadn’t have been there, I’m sort of just chipping out and five was probably the score I would have made. “I am one great round of golf away from doing it and that’s all I have to focus on.” “I certainly think it gives me an edge over the others,” Fitzpatrick said of his US Amateur win.

Nine years after winning the US Amateur title at the same venue, Fitzpatrick shares the lead heading into the final round of the year's third…

Rain showers taper off heading into Sunday afternoon, but an overhead cloud deck will keep temperatures in the 60s for the coolest day of the week. “I am one great round of golf away from doing it and that’s all I have to focus on.” It kind of kickstarted me.

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“It’s obviously a special place for me and to go one step further and win a US Open round here would be even more special. Fitzpatrick won the US Amateur at Brookline in 2013, the same year Justin Rose became the last Englishman to win the US Open at Merion. For the second major in succession, England’s Fitzpatrick will contest the closing round from the final group, having partnered Mito Pereira in the US PGA at Southern Hills last month.

World number one Scottie Scheffler, Keegan Bradley and Adam Hadwin are two shots off the pace at the Country Club, with Rory McIlroy, Sam Burns and Joel Dahmen ...

“I am one great round of golf away from doing it and that’s all I have to focus on.” It kind of kickstarted me. “I certainly think it gives me an edge over the others,” Fitzpatrick said of his US Amateur win in 2013.

Britains Matt Fitzpatrick and American Will Zalatoris share the lead heading into the final round of the US Open, a shot ahead of defending champion Jon ...

"That's what pisses me off, because so many other people would lie about being able to hit that, but it's just like, I'm not going to hit it (the drain)," Thomas complained. The job is not even close to being done." "It's obviously a special place for me and to go one step further and win a US Open round here would be even more special.

The 27-year-old employs an unorthodox technique while chipping, but what are the advantages?

Speaking after his second round 70 kept him well in contention in the US Open at The Country Club, Fitzpatrick said: “If it's better and it works and it helps you win, may as well do it. I started doing it a couple of years ago in the rough, because I felt the technique really got the clubhead out. I was just getting a lot of inconsistency in the strike, and the release. It helps me throw the head in, and I feel I have way more control over it. The advantage of the chipping technique is that the dominant hand (in Fitzpatrick’s case, his right hand) helps propel the club without interfering with the clubface. For example, after impressing in the PGA Championship, where he finished tied for fifth, it was revealed that Fitzpatrick has tracked every single shot for the last 12 years.

BRIT golfer Matt Fitzpatrick has revealed a harrowing phonecall with his Ukrainian ex-girlfriend gave him a different take on life.The 27-year-old, cu.

"I feel that I’m a different player now to 2015-18, so hopefully I can relax in the Majors and it will start to show." "The people around me say that I’m different in a major week and while I can’t see it myself it’s something that I need to work on. "I was sitting there in Florida ready to practise and it hit me, the contrast between the fact he might never come back and what I do."

McIlroy felt he was just one great round from claiming a fifth major title and first since 2014 following a battling 73 on Saturday, but mixed four birdies and ...

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Rory McIlroy gave himself a mountain to climb as Matt Fitzpatrick remained locked in a battle for his first major title in the 122nd US Open at Brookline.

The bad golf was coming from a number of sources, including two-time US Open winner Brooks Koepka, who had made two birdies but also two bogeys and two double bogeys to be out in 39 on his way to a closing 77. The pin position on the 17th was representative of the one used in the final round in 1913, when local amateur Francis Ouimet made a critical birdie on his way to victory. But it’s not.

Matt Fitzpatrick came through a final-round tussle with Will Zalatoris and world No 1 Scottie Scheffler to secure a maiden major title with a thrilling ...

Fitzpatrick nailed a 50-foot birdie at the 13th to pull level with Zalatoris, who had to convert from 12 feet to avoid a second successive bogey, with Fitzpatrick then jumping two clear when recovered from a poor tee shot at the 15th to hit his approach to 20 feet and hole the putt. A two-putt birdie on the same hole moved Fitzpatrick to six under alongside Scheffler, while Zalatoris fired his tee shot at the sixth to tap-in range and almost holed-out from the seventh to post back-to-back birdies and get back within two of the lead. A 25-foot birdie at the fourth from Scheffler was matched when Fitzpatrick holed from eight feet at the third, pulling the pair clear of the chasing pack, only for the American to post a fourth birdie of the day at the sixth to move to six under.

Matt Fitzpatrick, the 27-year-old from Yorkshire, won by one from Will Zalatoris and Scottie Scheffler while Rory McIlroy and Collin Morikawa finished tied ...

I thought it was a course that you could play pretty well at and a course that could kind of hurt you in the back pretty quickly. With birdies at the 14th and 15th, McIlroy was minus two and back in with a small shout. McIlroy made par at the tricky 2nd but dropped a shot at the 3rd, a hole which caused him issues in three of the four rounds. From there, he hit a towering, terrific iron into the heart of the green. The actions of a champion. Enter Scheffler. A terrific approach to the 17th set up a birdie three, and cut Fitzpatrick’s lead to one. A Zalatoris birdie at the short 11th meant a two-shot lead at six under. A Zalatoris bogey was the natural outcome. To the 72nd hole; where the Englishman hit his drive into a bunker. He dropped a shot at the 12th and carved his drive into rough at the 13th, from where he could only chip sideways. The duo were now tied at minus five, with Scheffler missing the opportunity to join the party up ahead at the par five 14th green. Scheffler joined him with a birdie at the 5th.

Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick won the U.S. Open on Sunday, winning his first major on the same course where he took the U.S. Amateur title nine years earlier.

Fitzpatrick also became the 13th men's golfer overall to win both the U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Open in his career. At 27, Fitzpatrick is also the youngest player from England to win a major since Tony Jacklin at the 1970 U.S. Open. He said, 'Finally. Congratulations for winning in the States,'" Fitzpatrick said of Nicklaus. He is the second player from England over the past 50 years to win the U.S. Open, joining Justin Rose in 2013. He was even more clutch from a fairway bunker on the 18th that set up par for a 2-under 68. Zalatoris was a runner-up in the second straight major.

Matt Fitzpatrick shot a final-round 68 on Sunday to win the 2022 U.S. Open at Brookline, his first career major championship. The 27-year-old Englishman, ...

The 2022 PGA Championship runner-up missed a birdie putt on No. 18 that could have forced a playoff to end the day with 1-under 69 and a third career second-place major finish. The 27-year-old Englishman, who co-led with Will Zalatoris after 54 holes, pulled away down the stretch, carding two birdies on his final six holes to capture the U.S. Open trophy. Jack Nicklaus is the only other golfer to achieve the feat, winning at Pebble Beach in 1961 and 1972. Fitzpatrick and Will Zalatoris are co-leaders at the U.S. Open after taming The Country Club course Saturday. Fitzpatrick and Will Zalatoris are co-leaders at the U.S. Open after taming The Country Club course Saturday. Dodgers' Mookie Betts to go on IL with cracked rib

MATT FITZPATRICK claimed a thrilling US Open victory to become only the third English golfer to win a Major in the last 26 years, after a very differe.

The problem was he followed every birdie with a bogey. But it always looked like that equalled the best round of the week alon g with a crtucial par save from a fairway bunker at the last. Rory McIlroy’s front nine was a lot more eventful. But it always looked like Fitzpatrick was more composed - and confident - than his American opponents. "Happy Father's Day to my kids!

Will Zalatoris and Scottie Scheffler, who tied for second, made it interesting down the stretch at the Country Club, but Fitzpatrick held on to finish at ...

Worse, on the diabolical 11th hole, Scheffler’s par putt from 7 feet rimmed the hole and lipped out for a second successive three-putt bogey that dropped him to four under par for the tournament. But a missed fairway off the 12th tee led to a layup short of the green and ultimately a bogey. He stumbled on the 10th hole when a lengthy second shot was short of the green and led to another bogey. But his tee shot on the par-3 sixth hole was excessively long, sailing 66 feet past the hole, which led to a bogey. Then the tiny 11th tormented Fitzpatrick as a 7-foot par putt skidded past the hole for a second successive bogey. But then Scheffler’s putting stroke deserted him as he needed three putts to get his ball in the hole from 38 feet on the 10th hole. Then, on the next hole, he sent his second shot into a greenside bunker, which led to a second successive bogey. Scheffler appeared to take a commanding lead in the tournament on Saturday with a sparkling front nine, but then gave it all back with a string of bogeys on the back nine. He steadied himself with three consecutive pars and at the par-3, 158-yard sixth hole, he drilled his tee shot 2 feet from the flag for an easy birdie. Fitzpatrick yanked his tee shot left into a yawning bunker, but from 156 yards he struck a crisp iron that bounded onto the green and stopped 17 feet from the hole. Zalatoris began the day tied for the lead with Fitzpatrick at four under par but faltered early when he three-putted from 67 feet below the second hole for a bogey. He held a two-stroke advantage over Scheffler, who had teed off two groups before Fitzpatrick and Zalatoris, the third-round leaders.

Matt Fitzpatrick finished at 6 under to prevail at The Country Club, one shot ahead of world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris.

The game’s there. "The game’s there. "I hope many 7 overs aren’t coming in the future, but it just kind of made me refocus and kind of just get back into things," Morikawa said. It was another heartbreaking ending for Zalatoris, who lost in a playoff to Justin Thomas in the PGA Championship last month. After reaching 6 under, Scheffler bogeyed 10 after an errant drive and then three-putted the 11th (which was playing just 108 yards) for bogey. Fitzpatrick closed with a 2-under-par 68 to finish at 6 under.

Jupiter resident Matt Fitzpatrick has won the U.S. Open, winning his first major on the same course where he took the U.S. Amateur title nine years earlier.

Nicklaus won at Pebble Beach in 1961 and 1972. Zalatoris had a 14-foot birdie putt to tie, but missed it by a fraction. But he hit the middle of the green and two-putted from 18 feet for par.

Matt Fitzpatrick has become the first Englishman in nine years to win the US Open after a thrilling final-round battle with world No.1 Scottie Scheffler and ...

Nicklaus won his second US Amateur title at Pebble Beach in 1961 and then won the US Open at the same course 11 years later. Fitzpatrick has also become only the second golfer after Jack Nicklaus to win the US Amateur title and the US Open on the same course. I just played so solid all day.’ I’ve got to give myself credit: I had so much patience today. I nearly did it. Matt Fitzpatrick has become the first Englishman in nine years to win the US Open after a thrilling final-round battle with world No.1 Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris.

Fitzpatrick held off Will Zalatoris to win his maiden major in a thrilling finish in Boston.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A birdie on the 11th took Zalatoris into the outright lead for the first time and moments later he had a two-shot lead, Fitzpatrick three-putting from just a few inches closer to the hole on an identical line. World number one Scottie Scheffler closed to within one with a birdie on the 17th and Zalatoris did likewise on the 16th, but the American agonisingly missed from 14 feet for another on the 18th to force a play-off.

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"I feel that I’m a different player now to 2015-18, so hopefully I can relax in the Majors and it will start to show." "The people around me say that I’m different in a major week and while I can’t see it myself it’s something that I need to work on. "I was sitting there in Florida ready to practise and it hit me, the contrast between the fact he might never come back and what I do."

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In all, Fitzpatrick—previously a seven-time European Tour winner—made more than 80 feet of putts over the final nine holes. That meant using a special high-strength titanium originally designed for the Mars Lander. The lighter and faster-flexing alloy (ATI 425) means more design freedom to create extra off-center-hit stability in the TSi2 and movable weight in the more pear-shaped TSi3. Fitzpatrick put the blade-style putter, which includes face grooves just like the Tracy II, in play in 2020. The win bookends Fitzpatrick’s 2013 U.S. Amateur win at the same venue and the familiar surroundings clearly agreed with him. Zalatoris dropped a shot with a bogey at 15, but with Scheffler about to knot him with a birdie at 17, Fitz dropped a 19-footer for another birdie at 15 after a brilliant iron approach from a bare patch 230 yards out that proved to be the difference. However things really got interesting starting at the 13th, where Fitz dropped a 48-foot putt for birdie to seemingly take the lead until Zalatoris dropped a lengthy putt for par.

Rory McIlroy suffered more major disappointment as a moment of magic from Matt Fitzpatrick kept him locked in a thrilling battle for the 122nd US Open at ...

A birdie on the 11th took Zalatoris into the outright lead for the first time and moments later he had a two-shot lead, Fitzpatrick three-putting from just a few inches closer to the hole on an identical line. That took him back into a share of the lead and he soon led on his own as Scheffler dropped his first shot of the day on the 10th and then three-putted the 108-yard 11th – the hole which cost him a double bogey in round three. Rory McIlroy suffered more major disappointment as a moment of magic from Matt Fitzpatrick kept him locked in a thrilling battle for the 122nd US Open at Brookline.

The Sheffield-born golfer adds title to the US Amateur Championship he won at the same course, a feat matched only by Jack Nicklaus.

“Not expected to do well, not expected to succeed. So hats off to him. “I feel like I certainly work hard for it. “Not to compare it to my football team, but I feel like I’m the same deal,” he explained. “Any time you’re sharing a record with Jack Nicklaus, it’s unbelievable,” said Fitzpatrick after his triumph at the course just outside Boston. “So for me to have that as well is incredible. “I just felt so comfortable around this place.

It was Fitzpatrick's first PGA TOUR win, and he becomes the 13th player and first non-American to win the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open. He's also the second, ...

Fitzpatrick still looks like a kid, which is to say he doesn’t look all that different from the player who won here in 2013, with the exception of the logos and maybe a few extra pounds. Jon Rahm captured the 2021 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, the site of his first TOUR win and not far from the hiking trails where he proposed to his wife. Fitzpatrick is the first player since Danny Willett at the 2016 Masters to notch his first TOUR win at a major. “Yeah, just happy to be unbeaten around this place.” If you’re a certain type of dewy-eyed dreamer, you can still squint at Matt and Alex and see Ouimet and his own kid-caddie, Eddie Lowery, in 1913. “That’s going to look bad on TV. I’ve said for a long time he deserves one more than anyone I can think of. You could take it as pressure, who knows how it’s going to go, but he stayed calm and had a good game plan. The final hurdle for Fitzpatrick, having driven into the fairway bunker on 18, was clearing the lip that had thwarted Jon Rahm the day before. The relationship between a player and a golf course can mean more than meets the eye. Fitzpatrick’s 17 top-10s without a win were the most on TOUR since the start of the 2019-20 season. Zalatoris, who lost playoffs at the Farmers Insurance Open (Luke List) and PGA Championship (Justin Thomas) earlier this season, and who also was seeking his first TOUR win, had a birdie putt on 18 to force a playoff, but it burned the left edge. This is horrible (laughter).’ And up to that point really, I'd really not missed many shots.

His average driving distance on the PGA TOUR has risen from 287.9 yards in 2019 to 298.1 in 2022. He averaged nearly 310 yards this week at Brookline to rank ...

“I feel like maybe four years ago if I was in this position, and I was playing with Will in the final group, I'd be concerned that I'm going to be 15, 20 (yards) behind him. He's hitting the ball really well and has been knocking on the door for a long time. So, he kicked it back up a notch to begin this year. Combined with his always impressive iron game, Fitzpatrick ranks fifth on TOUR in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green (+1.6). He gained just +0.2 strokes per round in the same category two years ago. “It will be great. He averaged nearly 310 yards this week at Brookline to rank 16th in the field (while also ranking fifth in driving accuracy). Driving it past playing partner Will Zalatoris was a confidence booster during their back-and-forth tussle at Brookline. Earlier this week, he outdrove playing partner Dustin Johnson on a number of occasions. He then backed up and did the same against the big-hitting Sam Burns in the third round. It's like a training program. It's like going to the gym basically. With the help of a speed training system called The Stack, co-developed by biomechanics expert Sasho Mackenzie, Fitzpatrick has spent countless hours earning his distance gains.

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But the mark of class, of Sheffield steel, came at 18 with sand beneath the ball. Fitzpatrick rolled in for birdie and a two-shot lead. Thankfully, at the age of 27, with the steady hand of Billy Foster guiding him, it has.

Will Zalatoris and Scottie Scheffler, who tied for second, made it interesting down the stretch at the Country Club, but Fitzpatrick held on to finish at ...

But Scheffler’s putting stroke deserted him on the back nine when he bogeyed the 10th and 11th holes when he needed three putts to get his ball in the hole on both greens. But a missed fairway off the 12th tee led to a layup short of the green and ultimately a bogey. That dropped him to four under par for the tournament. He stumbled on the 10th hole when a lengthy second shot was short of the green and led to another bogey. But his tee shot on the par-3 sixth hole was excessively long, sailing 66 feet past the hole, which led to a bogey. Then, on the next hole, he sent his second shot into a greenside bunker, which led to a second successive bogey. Then the tiny 11th tormented Fitzpatrick as a 7-foot par putt skidded past the hole for a second successive bogey. On Sunday, Scheffler carved up the front nine again, with four birdies in his first six holes. But his 3-wood on the 444-yard, par-4 18th hole was ripped left and landed in the center of a yawning bunker just off the fairway. He steadied himself with three consecutive pars and at the par-3, 158-yard sixth hole, he drilled his tee shot 2 feet from the flag for an easy birdie. In the past year, Fitzpatrick, now No. 10 in the men’s world golf rankings, has worked tirelessly off the course to increase the speed of his swing, which leads to greater distance, and usually to lower scores. BROOKLINE, Mass. — This year’s U.S. Open began as the setting for an unprecedented showdown between golfers who had remained loyal to the established PGA Tour and a breakaway pack of ex-colleagues who recently joined the new, rebel Saudi-backed LIV Golf series.

Fitzpatrick carded a closing 68 at Brookline to finish six under par, a shot ahead of Will Zalatoris and Scottie Scheffler.

“I thought I made a lot of nice putts just to keep myself in it. So hat’s off to him.” I really felt great with the putter all week, and I hit a great putt on 18. “I battled like crazy,” Zalatoris said. “The feeling’s out of this world,” the 27-year-old from Sheffield said. “I walked by it, and I thought that going for it was going to be ballsy, but the fact that he pulled it off and even had a birdie look was just incredible.

World No 1 Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris paid tribute to Matt Fitzpatrick after the Englishman claimed bragging rights over the pair with US Open ...

I don't know if you guys noticed, but I feel like he has made some extreme improvements off the tee in a matter of months. "Gave myself a chance to win the US Open. Performed really well today under a lot of pressure. "It just so happened the putts were going around the edge instead of in. "I thought I made a lot of nice putts just to keep myself in it. That's what it felt like was happening most of the week. I really felt great with the putter all week, and I hit a great putt on 18.

Matthew Fitzpatrick described the feeling of securing his maiden major victory at the US Open as "out of this world" as he edged out Will Zalatoris and ...

"It means a lot. He did my head in by missing a few short putts, but he didn't need to win by four, did he? "It's easy to still go off track. "The feeling's out of this world," Fitzpatrick said. "That's the number that we all agreed on. To achieve it, I can retire a happy man tomorrow."

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Fitzpatrick is the first Englishman to win a major championship in six years after Danny Willett’s victory at The Masters in 2016. It was the eighth pro tournament win for the Sheffield native who first came on to the scene in 2013 after winning the US Amateur Championship which was also held at The Country Club that year. Matthew Fitzpatrick has become the first English golfer to win a major championship in over six years by claiming victory at the 2022 United States Open Championship.

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Now he was alongside Scheffler and in the thick of the action. It was a shot to seize the moment. Fitzpatrick had a stroke of fortune at the 15th, where a wayward drive finished on a path for spectators rather than thick rough. It left the sort of putt that champions make. He was piling on the pressure. Clearly, this was going to be a stringent test of nerve from his opening drive. Soon he was joined on the green by his mum Susan, his dad Russell and brother Alex, who turned pro earlier this month. It was like Sandy Lyle at the Masters in 1988 all over again. By his side was veteran caddie Billy Foster. He's caddied for Seve Ballesteros, Lee Westwood and Darren Clarke, but he's waited decades to carry the bag for a major champion. Two putts from Fitzpatrick meant Zalatoris had a 15ft-birdie putt to tie. In 1913 it was Francis Ouimet who launched the American golf revolution with his shock win. The one where two British professionals lost a play-off in 1913.

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In doing so, he becomes only the second male golfer to win the UA Amateur and the US Open at the same venue. Experienced caddie Billy Foster, who previously worked with Seve Ballesteros, Darren Clarke, Thomas Bjorn and Lee Westwood without ever winning a major, tells him to be patient. The first?

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Fitzpatrick is recognised as one of the nicest guys in the game and that was evident as Twitter reacted to his victory. Billy Foster has caddied for the biggest names in the game, including Seve Ballesteros and Lee Westwood, for four decades so he knows his stuff. Family man Fitzpatrick had his younger brother Alex on the bag in 2013 and he was waiting for him at the 18th green on Sunday night.

The Yorkshireman built his reputation as a fairway laser and excellent putter but it is an extra 20 yards off the tee thanks to his devotion to a weighted ...

While Bryson DeChambeau pumped iron and ate a dozen eggs and steak at every meal to add speed and power to his game, Fitzpatrick went only partially down the gym route, investing more in timing and biomechanics. “Not to compare it to my football team [Sheffield United], but I feel like I’m the same deal,” he said, explaining to his American audience the nuances of coming from a post-industrial landscape in the north of England. “Not expected to do well, not expected to succeed. “Lee Westwood, Darren Clarke, Seve, they’ve had their chances over the years and Bjorn. I was caddying for him that day when he left it in the bunker at Sandwich [2003, 16th, double bogey while leading by a shot] and that really hurt. Fitzpatrick has always been good, he just had to believe it himself, to shake from his being the modesty bequeathed by a cultural immersion in Sheffield, all those Yorkshire mores that protect against swagger and conceit. Yet Fitzpatrick kept grinding away in the final group, a heavyweight in the body of a lightweight, refusing to be dimmed by the uber wattage around him. It was fag paper close to forcing a play-off. The game is easier the closer to the flag you are with the second shot. It is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, etc. He won’t hit one better, yet this was never about one moment of wizardry from the sand. He answered with birdies at 13 and 15 for a one-shot lead going up the last. Only as they turned for home did he wobble a little, missing short putts at 10 and 11. Matsuyama came through the field with a 65 to set the clubhouse mark at three under par, Morikawa slotted in at two under.

Matt Fitzpatrick became only the second player in history to win the US Open and the US Amateur at the same venue, after the 27-year-old Englishman captured ...

I’ve been playing well for a while, and I think it all just fell into place that this was the place it was going to happen.” Once the championship was secured, Fitzpatrick first celebrated with his caddie, Billy Foster, and then his parents and younger brother, Alex, who was his caddie here nine years ago, and has just turn professional. It was his second consecutive runner-up finish in a major, having lost a playoff to Justin Thomas at last month’s PGA Championship. Zalatoris, whose tee shot on 15 landed in thick rough, failed to get up and down from a greenside bunker. Fitzpatrick put on a ball-striking clinic on Sunday, hitting 17 of 18 greens. “It is so cliche, but it’s stuff you dream of as a kid.

Matt Fitzpatrick has been tipped to become one of the most dominant players in the world following his US Open triumph. Fitzpatrick held his nerve in a ...

“I’m looking forward to it. “I’ll probably have a sit-down meeting with everyone and just try and make the right decisions going forward. “It (The Open) will be great,” Fitzpatrick said. I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing. I can see him winning further majors.” He’s far better than I thought.

Fitzpatrick carded a closing 68 at Brookline to finish six under par, a shot ahead of Will Zalatoris and Scottie Scheffler.

“I thought I made a lot of nice putts just to keep myself in it. So hat’s off to him.” I really felt great with the putter all week, and I hit a great putt on 18. “I battled like crazy,” Zalatoris said. “The feeling’s out of this world,” the 27-year-old from Sheffield said. “I walked by it, and I thought that going for it was going to be ballsy, but the fact that he pulled it off and even had a birdie look was just incredible.

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Fitzpatrick said after Sunday's win that he "can retire a happy man" having become a major champion, but fans will be banking on there being more glory in store. After unlocking a new level in his own career on Sunday, Fitzpatrick will hope next season ends in promotion. And he doesn't consider his own tale too dissimilar from that of his beloved Sheffield United, who just missed out on promotion back to the Premier League this season. Considering he only turned professional in 2014, the 27-year-old has time on his side as he looks to embed himself among England's golf elite. I've got a bit of a way to go, but it's a good start. It is an underdog mentality and you work hard for what you get.”

English golfer Matt Fitzpatrick produced a sublime bunker shot on the final hole before making the par he needed to win the US Open at Brookline on Sunday ...

At the time he was out in America, with his situation a stark contrast to what Khazaniuk was going though And he woke up on Monday morning to find himself ranked at a new career high of No 10 in the world. He also became the first English player to win a major of any kind since Danny Willett's triumph at The Masters in 2016.

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Matt Fitzpatrick was going for a little piece of golf history — he was trying to win the U.S. Open, win for the first time in the U.S., become the first English golfer to win the Open since Justin Rose almost a decade ago and only the third English golfer to win it since 1925. Tom Watson will tell you that when he hit his purest shot — the 7-iron he hit on the 18th hole at Turnberry in The Duel in the Sun against Nicklaus — he thought the ball looked like a piece of art against the Scottish sky. In good times and bad, he would think back to that shot and the way the ball looked. You would hope and expect that none of this was playing in Fitzpatrick’s mind as he set up for the shot. See, the last time I played golf was 1992, and it was at Augusta National. In those days, I was columnist at The Augusta Chronicle, and the newspaper had this very cool deal where everyone who covered the Masters for the paper got to play a round of golf at Augusta National on the last day before the course closed for summer. And this — THIS — is why I love golf, even if I don’t play the game. Fitzpatrick is a great golfer with all the shots. Sunday at The Country Club of Brookline, he played the round of his life. He got a great break on the 15th hole. The last time I played a round of golf — and I promise you that at some point this will wind back around to Matt Fitzpatrick and something extraordinary that happened at the U.S. Open — was 30 years ago. Golf is a personal game in the way that football is not. He’d played in more than 100 PGA TOUR events since turning pro as a 20-year-old, and it just seemed odd that someone with his game, his touch around the greens, his brilliant iron play, his meticulous golfing mind*, couldn’t quite break through and win in the states.

Matt Fitzpatrick is plotting many more major wins after finally breaking his duck in the US Open, writes Iain Carter.

"I'm just trying to find something that makes me a better player. "I don't want to get complacent now. "He has an incredible work ethic and with that extra bit of confidence from winning a major championship it'll hold him in good stead moving forward." "There's not many, in my opinion, that work harder than me. His scrambling and chipping has got a lot better and he normally putts great. His biggest struggle is trying to articulate what this victory means to him. "In terms of discipline, he's just so organised," his father added. "He's put on 20 yards off the tee. It's like going to the gym basically." It came to a head after the majors of 2020. "That's incredible golf. Cowen was a client of Fitzpatrick's bank manager dad.

"I cannot think of a more deserving person to have joined golf's major winner club than Matt Fitzpatrick," says Sky Sports' Jamie Weir.

"The scenes on Brookline's 18th green as a visibly stunned Matt Fitzpatrick hugged his mum and dad, his brother and was welcomed to the major club by Rory McIlroy summed up what golf is all about. From his opening tee shot on Sunday until his 68th stroke of the day - a tap-in on the 18th green - this was a different Matt Fitzpatrick. One with the bit between his teeth, fully focused and determined to seize this opportunity. "There are some people intent of tearing the game of golf apart, with scant regard to its history or tradition. After Tony Jacklin's win in 1970 there was a 40-year wait for the next winner from this continent as it eluded greats of the game like Faldo, Ballesteros, Langer and Lyle. Europe has now provided six of the last 13 champions. The aforementioned Chris and I walked a few holes with them at the Ryder Cup last September and they're just so easy to talk to. The reason this will be such a popular victory is because of who Fitz is as a person. "The Country Club at Brookline couldn't have been a more fitting venue. Factor in he was in the last group on the final day, with the added pressure that brings, and it will go down as one of THE all-time great final rounds at any major championship. that will certainly go down as one of the greatest shots of all time." "His painstaking diligence and dedication to his craft is quite incredible to behold. During the final round many of the game's big guns - Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm - attempted to drive the green at the short par 4 5th. Previously viewed as one of the shorter hitters in golf, he's now right up there amongst the longer players.

Matt Fitzpatrick's US Open victory at Brookline on Sunday was also a first major victory for his caddie Billy Foster, who had endured decades of ...

He hits a three wood and puts it in the bunker and I thought to myself, ‘Oh no.’ But his recovery was one of the best shots I’ve ever seen. He likes to hit a driver on that hole, I like him to hit a three wood. “When he kept missing the five-foot putts I thought to myself, ‘The little bastard!’ It was doing my head in because we all know how good a putter he normally is. He kept telling me the first time on the job, ‘I’ll just do 25 weeks and maybe get a fill-in for the others.’ I think he’s had about two weeks off in four years.” But he says he was in that state – all the way from Sandwich home to Yorkshire, in fact – after Thomas Bjørn passed up the opportunity to win the 2003 Open Championship. “I thought about that every day for six months,” Foster said. There was a lot of heartbreak in there, a lot of scar tissue.