Northwestern alum Matt Fitzpatrick<\/a> has three PGA Tours wins this season while Alex shared one win with his brother and entered Sunday with the lead at Quail Hollow before a double bogey on 17 derailed his shot at winning the Truist Open.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s rare for brothers to win in tandem on the PGA Tour. There haven\u2019t historically been many team events, but brothers Danny and David Edwards did it at the Walt Disney World Team Championship in 1980.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a lot of people feel like that once they get to this stage or even to the DP World Tour that they need to change a bunch of things and that\u2019s going to help success,\u201d Alex said. \u201cI just felt like I keep doing what I\u2019m trying to do. I\u2019ve got a circle around me that I really trust. All the advice that I get is great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alex has finished tied for ninth and fourth in his first two signature events since the Zurich Classic and has won about $2.84 million over that span. Pretty good for a golfer who wasn\u2019t on the PGA Tour before that date.<\/p>\n
A day later, Alex tried to put the late fade at Quail Hollow behind him as he practiced for the PGA.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if I looked back two months ago and someone said you\u2019d finish fourth at the Truist Championship, I\u2019d have kicked myself,\u201d if he was crushed, Fitzpatrick said. \u201cI was disappointed in just in that I wish I\u2019d have scored a little better. Overall, it was a great week and I have no complaints.\u201d<\/p>\n
Little brother\u2019s recent hot streak has sparked a bit of a role reversal in their dynamic.<\/p>\n
Alex Fitzpatrick is 27 \u2014 about 4 1\/2 years younger than Matt \u2014 which has led to years of answering questions about his brother.<\/p>\n
Matt Fitzpatrick was a U.S. Amateur champion in 2013 and the U.S. Open champion in 2022, both at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. He beat Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world, in a playoff in April at Harbour Town.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can be such a blur at times, and I think it is trying to take a step back and kind of remember those moments, even on a week like this and think about, oh, yeah, I won the Valspar or I won Harbour Town, whatever it may be,\u201d Matt said.<\/p>\n
Fitzpatrick has enjoyed the roles this season of watching, winning \u2014 and analyzing \u2014 his younger brother.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to get used to that now because he\u2019s had it for much longer than me,\u201d Matt said. \u201cI\u2019m probably known as Alex\u2019s brother now, as opposed to him being Matt\u2019s brother. I love talking about my brother. It\u2019s an amazing position to be in to have that privilege to talk about how well he\u2019s doing. I\u2019d so much rather have these questions, conversations, than the opposite of, you know, why is he not playing well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe one of the brothers can talk Sunday about the feeling of winning a major.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say my head is still spinning and I haven\u2019t woken up from the dream yet,\u201d Alex said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. \u2014 Alex Fitzpatrick was whisked around Aronimink by golf cart to make some national media…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":791353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1430,5386,1818,1370,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-791352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116562340559842218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}