Fitzpatrick’s return to the highest of the sport has coincided together with his youthful brother Alex, additionally grabbing the headlines.
The siblings’ pairs win in New Orleans earned Alex a two-year PGA Tour card and the 27-year-old led after 54 holes earlier than ending fourth in final week’s Truist Championship.
“We’ve not likely been in rivalry but collectively however I might think about it will be a bizarre feeling when that point does come,” Matt Fitzpatrick mentioned.
“I have been impressed greater than something. I am tremendous happy with him for a way he is been enjoying. I am in all probability referred to as Alex’s brother now, versus him being Matt’s brother.”
On the finish of 2025, Alex Fitzpatrick was 203rd on this planet however he has climbed considerably since then to 83rd and shall be trying to construct on a massively spectacular joint seventeenth on his solitary main look so far, at Hoylake within the 2023 Open Championship.
Nonetheless, whereas Matt Fitzpatrick has employed a data-driven methodology to his quest so as to add to his US Open victory at Brookline 4 years in the past – he’s well-known or writing detailed notes after each shot he hits – he says his method, on and off the course isn’t mirrored by his youthful brother.
“He’s messy, I might say. We shared a rest room final week, really, in the home that we shared, and it was slightly bit messier than my aspect of the lavatory,” smiled Matt.
“I feel he in all probability needed to create his personal path. He is not likely numbers oriented. I wish to know the numbers.
“I personally simply suppose that is sort of good apply, not being over analytical. I feel Alex is sort of undoubtedly extra waft.He’s doing an excellent job of the place he’s on the minute.”
