{"id":56335,"date":"2026-04-27T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/56335\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:15:21","slug":"fitzpatrick-brothers-win-zurich-classic-to-earn-alex-a-pga-tour-card-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/56335\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzpatrick brothers win Zurich Classic to earn Alex a PGA Tour card \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick<\/a> recovered from a final-round stumble with a brilliant finish to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans with a birdie at the last.<\/p>\n

The Sheffield pair became the first brothers to win the team event while Matt became the first player in more than two years to win back-to-back events on the PGA Tour<\/a> and the first Englishman to win three times in the same American season.<\/p>\n

His superb 35-yard bunker shot at the par-five last left his younger sibling with a tap-in to post 31 under and avoid a three-way playoff.<\/p>\n

With the victory Alex, who holed the winning putt in the last-round foursomes, earned a PGA Tour card through 2028 with exemptions to the next four Signature Events, next month\u2019s US PGA Championship and the 2027 Players Championship.<\/p>\n

The pair had begun the day with a four-stroke lead but a bogey on the 14th meant that had been whittled away after Matt had driven behind a tree and Alex\u2019s recovery rebounded off another resulting in a double bogey on the 12th.<\/p>\n

Matt, who won last week\u2019s RBC Heritage, was struggling despite being the more experienced player and when Alex hit his tee shot to 14 feet at the difficult par-three 17th his brother mis-hit the birdie attempt.<\/p>\n

Norwegians Kristoffer Reitan and Kris Ventura and American pair Alex Smalley and Hayden Springer were already in the clubhouse on 30 under but Matt redeemed himself down the last with a superb sand save to set up the crucial, career-changing birdie for his brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a struggle. I was doing absolute (sic) zero to help him apart from the putt I made on 15. I wasn\u2019t providing much support but he [Alex] was fantastic on the back nine,\u201d said world number three Matt.<\/p>\n

Alex, ranked 141st in the world, has until 5pm local time (8pm BST) on Monday to officially join the PGA Tour to be eligible for the $20 million Cadillac Championship which starts on Thursday at US president Donald Trump\u2019s Doral resort in Florida.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt won\u2019t sink in \u2013 I\u2019ve got a flight booked for Turkey tonight [as he was scheduled to compete in the Turkish Airlines Open on the DP World Tour].<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to be here with him [Matt], mum and dad. It\u2019s as good as it gets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ireland\u2019s S\u00e9amus Power finished in a tie for 10th with German Matti Schmid, five shots behind the winner.<\/p>\n

\"NellyNelly Korda of the United States poses with the Dinah Shore Trophy. Photograph: Kenneth Richmond\/Getty <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Nelly Korda returned to the mountaintop in Houston by going wire-to-wire for her second Chevron Championship title in three years and \u200cregaining the world number one ranking in the process.<\/p>\n

Korda shot a tidy two-under-par 70 in the final round at Memorial Park Golf Course and won the season\u2019s first Major by a comfortable five-shot margin. She opened with consecutive \u200c65s to take a six-shot advantage into the weekend before finishing the job at 18-under 270.<\/p>\n

It is Korda\u2019s third career Major title (2021 Women\u2019s PGA Championship, 2024 Chevron), tying her with contemporaries Lydia Ko of New \u200bZealand, Minjee Lee of Australia, Anna Nordqvist of Sweden and In-gee Chun of South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick recovered from a final-round stumble with a brilliant finish to win the Zurich Classic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30813,28383,31493,3079,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-56335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zurich","8":"tag-lpga-tour","9":"tag-matt-fitzpatrick","10":"tag-nelly-korda","11":"tag-pga-tour","12":"tag-zurich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116476151282792166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}