Matt Fitzpatrick is one of the most analytical golf minds. The Englishman has always had the finger on the pulse of his game. When something is out, he knows what he is and, more often than not, how to fix it.
But Open Open’s 2022 champion found himself in a routine earlier this season, whose likes he had never experienced. The truth to say, the game of Fitzpatrick had been in the trend since the 2024 season in which he scored only three Top-10 conclusions, did not make the championship a tour and ranked 50 best in the strokes: driving, approaching and about green. But things also became a dicier to start the 2025 season when he failed to post a Top-20 in any of his first five beginnings of the season.
Then came the player championship, where Fitzpatrick went 78-72 to lose the cut in the TPC Sawgrass. A few weeks later, at Valero Texas Open, Fitzpatrick again fought, going 76-72 to lose cutting. He knew his iron game was the matter, but there was no clear way to fix it. MC in the TPC saw was at the bottom of the rock for Fitzpatrick in his golf life.
“Players this year,” said Fitzpatrick on Thursday at 2025 Open Championship When asked when he hit the end of the rock. “It was really bad, and even Valero, a kind of weeks later, I couldn’t find my face with the ball. It wasn’t just good.
“That’s the lowest I have been.
Fitzpatrick completed the T40 in Masters and started working with the swing coach Mark Blackburn next week on RBC Heritage. After a discussion with Blackburn and his coach, Fitzpatrick may feel that things start moving in the right direction. A 66 of the first round in Harbour Town, one of Fitzpatrick’s favorite courses, and he opened a vein When asked about the state of his game that day.
“A garbage, simple like her,” said Fitzpatrick then for his game. “It has been terrible. Yes, it was the worst I have ever played, in fact.
“A little of everything,” he said. “Week every week seems to throw something to me, doing badly or shredding. It was mostly handcuffed have not been good enough, and then it is certainly pressured for everything else, I actually run it in order this year, and this is probably the only positive, but out of that, everything else has not been so good.”
With the help of Blackburn, the play of the fitzpatrick slowly turned back. He grinned at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club, finishing T8 and entered This week’s open championship in Royal Portrush FAR top-back-back-top-10 at Classic Rocket and Scottish Open Genesis.
With his iron return match and building the moment after his world-class game, Fitzpatrick came out on Thursday in Northern Ireland and shot a four-year-old in difficult conditions to get an early part of Portrush’s lead.
Fitzpatrick made an eagle and three birds, including a soft, chip in Par-3 16.
For rick Gehman of Rickrungood.com, Fitzpatrick won 6.9 strokes in the field Through the early part of the game on Thursday, which was on the right track to be his best round ever in a big championship.
For Fitzpatrick, the ride at the bottom of the rock was crazy about his analytical mind, but he is now sure that his swing and shape have returned, with Thursday’s round only the last test that all the work he, Blackburn and his team in the end is being paid. Since after hitting at the end of the rock, Matt Fitzpatrick is finally starting to be again Matt Fitzpatrick.
“Of course, I felt like it was a pretty low point,” Fitzpatrick said on Thursday. “For me, it’s a kind of just changing my technique with my handcuffs. I have to understand my trends much better to understand what to do to fix it. A kind of circumstances to somehow, well, very unfortunate, but started working with Mark Blackburn, and he has given me a lot of time.”
Part of the information that Fitzpatrick received was that because he has long weapons, he had to prove him on the changes he makes with his swinging.
Despite his English roots, Fitzpatrick has not yet found success in the oldest Golf. He is never better than T20 in the open championship.
For Fitzpatrick, who strictly casts notes after each blow, ties the golf and his mind does not join.
“Honestly, I don’t really know. I wouldn’t say particularly – I wouldn’t say that I especially like to play connections golf, how I don’t feel like – it’s just a grinding all the time, or not? I like grinding, but sometimes it’s a low score quarrel, and that’s what I find hard.
“I don’t know if it’s just the way I see the game can be different, but I feel like I got shots to play well. I hit it as low as someone here, so it should stay out of the wind. But I just don’t think it’s all easy as some of these people make it look.”
But after a proper round of golf on Irish on Thursday, a safe fitzpatrick and his return game can finally begin to see eye -to -eye with “purest shape”.
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