If Matt Fitzpatrick wants to be part of the season-ending playoff events in the Middle East, he is going to need something approaching the victory he posted in this event last year.
You can’t eliminate margin for error in golf, but you can learn to play it. That’s what playing smart is. And that’s what Matt Fitzpatrick does so well.
There’s something to be said for the Official World Golf Ranking not changing its rules to appease LIV’s undeserved sense of entitlement… but that rigidness to the rules has likewise made the OWGR obsolete.
If the Swedish rookie receives a captain’s pick for this month’s Ryder Cup, he will become the first player in history to make a team without ever having played in a major championship.
Hovland established a record for low score in a FedEx Cup Playoff event as well as his career low while winning his fifth PGA Tour title and second this year.
For all the jockeying for position over 72 holes at Olympia Fields Country Club, for all the drama as players moved in and out of the top 30 in the FedEx Cup points standings, only one player – Matt Fitzpatrick – was able to play his way into the Tour Championship.
It has happened before, but not since 1985 when Manuel Ballesteros joined his wee brother, Seve, in the Open Championship field at Royal St George’s alongside another pair of siblings, Tateo and Naomichi Ozaki from Japan. So the sight of Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick and Rasmus and Nicolai Hojgaard in the starting line-up this week is unusual rather than unique.