{"id":23764,"date":"2026-06-19T17:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/23764\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:17:17","slug":"matt-fitzpatricks-shot-gets-stuck-in-road-in-weird-us-open-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/23764\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Fitzpatrick&#8217;s shot gets stuck in road in weird US Open scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did the golf ball cross the road?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, because Matt Fitzpatrick hit it there, of course.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 U.S. Open champion found himself in a precarious spot on the 12th hole during the second round of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/19\/sports\/joaquin-niemanns-us-open-meltdown-results-in-serious-misconduct-penalty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Open action at Shinnecock Hills<\/a>, when his second shot bounced off the rough and back on Tuckahoe Road \u2013 a single lane in each direction road \u2013 which runs through the fairway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ball rolled into the middle of the road before coming to a full stop just on the edge where the road meets the grass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/usopengolf\/status\/2067989090667012383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was given free relief<\/a> as a result of where the ball ended up and he was able to drop within one club length.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39729136\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/matt-fitzpatrick-england-selects-club-131549908.jpg\" alt=\"Golfer Matt Fitzpatrick and his caddie discuss club selection on the sixth hole during the 126th U.S. Open.\" class=\"wp-image-39729136\"  \/>Matt Fitzpatrick of England selects a club from their bag on the sixth hole during the second round of the 126th U.S. OPEN. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman started off the hole 1-over par on the day when his drive went 298 yards into a native area right of the fairway, and in the shadow of a fence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when his second shot bounced off Tuckahoe Road and his third shot, following the relief, ended up on the green a little more than 37 feet to the hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick two-putted on the green to finish with a bogey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.87545788;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39729165\" width=\"1024\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-19-at-11.54.22-AM.png\" alt=\"Matt Fitzpatrick's shot landed in the road, and didn't make it too far from there.\" class=\"wp-image-39729165\"  \/>Matt Fitzpatrick\u2019s shot landed in the road, and didn\u2019t make it too far from there.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into this week\u2019s tournament, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/15\/sports\/matt-fitzpatrick-welcoming-a-windy-shinnecock-hills-challenge-at-us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fitzpatrick was looking for a challenge <\/a>from the notoriously windy and difficult course, nestled on the east end of Long Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me personally, I want it to get as dry and firm as possible, as U.S. Opens do, and just see where that takes us,\u201d Fitzpatrick said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that for me \u2014 this golf course, I think when it is really tough like that, I enjoy that challenge because you have to do your homework, and you have to hit good shots, and that\u2019s what I think any good golf tournament should require,\u201d he added later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why did the golf ball cross the road?\u00a0 Well, because Matt Fitzpatrick hit it there, of course.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[44,1399,1680,56,1565],"class_list":["post-23764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-matt-fitzpatrick","tag-golf","tag-matt-fitzpatrick","tag-matthew-fitzpatrick","tag-sports","tag-us-open-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}