The younger brother of Matt Fitzpatrick, Alex, has qualified for his first major — and he's ready to shed the 'brother' label. Alex first rose to prominence on Netflix's 'Full Swing.' Now, he's dialed in on the Open Championship.
What made it even sweeter was that on the 18th green, waiting to give him a firm pat on the back, was his close friend and former chipping green competitor, Barclay Brown, the early clubhouse leader in last year’s 150th Open at St Andrews.
Matt, left, and Alex Fitzpatrick teamed up at the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic in April, earning a T19 finish. It was on the back of a third-place finish at the B-NL Challenge Trophy when he received an uplifting message from Tony Watkins, a long-serving member at his home club who was well known for creating “comedy” reports to coincide with club competition results.
“It was just so sad,” Fitzpatrick says. “And there was me getting pissed off because I had made a couple of bogies earlier in the day. Developing the right mindset to move forward is really important.”He doesn’t follow the same data-driven approach that has seen his brother record information on each shot he has hit over the past 13 years.“I have a good structure in place now and people I trust to help support me,” he says.
“They’re so supportive and have watched my brother in thousands of tournaments. It’s hard for them with both of us playing this week,” Alex says. “But since I qualified, I’ve had to pinch myself a few times. I’ve felt for a while now I’ve been doing all the right things but not quite getting the rewards.
In Liverpool where he lines up against the best in the world, at a course he knows “relatively well” having played his first Walker Cup there in 2019, there’s a chance for him to showcase his skills to a wider audience. “It’s weird because I’ve sat in the stands at the majors and watched my brother do it,” Fitzpatrick says. “In qualifying, I was telling myself to think about the feeling at the end of the round when I could call everyone and say I had done it.“Now it’s close and it feels a bit different. I can’t imagine how I will feel on the first tee just yet with so many people around.
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