The mother of this great winner has a historical victory of her

Ed. Note: This is the third and last installment of our mother’s day’s series for which we profiled three PGA Tour Pro mothers.

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Matt FitzpatrickOpen Open winner of 2022, in three cases had his mother, Sue, as his pro-am partner in the Alfred Dunhill Links championship in Scotland. Most of the best in Dunhill are paired with celebrities or business titans. But the most lit names in this area can bring their partners.

“The first time Matt asked me to join her, I was excited,” Sue says about her appearance in 2022. ” “I was so nervous.

Good thing overwhelmed her and played again, because a year later she and her son made history by becoming the first team of the whole family that won both the team and the individual titles.

“Story my story after dinner now,” Sue with laughing.

Love affair with the game

Although Matt’s mother was young to play golf in the company of celebrities and the good, she is not a stranger for the game. Sue met her future husband, Russell, when she was 16 years old. “Russell started playing Golf when he was 14, and he introduced me to the game a few years after we met,” Sue says. “I got some lessons and Russell taught me the rest.” The Coupleifi married in the early 20s and began traveling to local clubs to play in mixed-four-year-old competitions. During that time, they had two sons, Matt and Alex, both would take place in extraordinary players.

“I’ve always wanted to be a mother, but you know how it goes – you’re lucky if it happens,” Sue says. “I think those first years when the kids were young were the happiest times we’ve ever had. We felt very privileged and it was such a fun time for us as a family.”

Fitzpatricks went through their golf love of their children, first through club plastic and then the right kind. Over the years, Matt’s personality and interests discovered that he was much like his father, who was a banker. Statistics, numbers and black and white thought began to form the way Matt elaborated the world, from Golf notes. After his love for the numbersThe hard work has been one of Matt’s trademarks.

Alex is more like his mother. He is a free spirit with a side artsy and a sharp ingenuity. Alex is a natural athlete like his brother and shines in many different arenas (including the table tenxtrous table tennis). “Alex is a talented football player and could have a career in football if he would like to follow him,” Sue says. He now plays in Dp Tour World with aspirations to join PGA Tour.

Among the features sue encouraged her sons: respect. “I don’t like people who are kind or rude, so it was always very important for me for my sons to have good behavior,” she says. “We taught them not to be too shy with people, but to look them in the eyes.”

‘Just want them to be happy’

Sue and Russell have always played big roles in their sons’ golf career. As they saw that their sons were getting better, Fitzpatricks would bring them to tours that the boys wanted to play inside, but were also careful not to push them too hard. “We never wanted to be those parents who wanted their child to be the other Woods Tiger,” Sue says. “They had to love it themselves. In those years, both our boys worked hard, but they never stood out.”

When asked what advice she can offer a mother on the front of her journey to her parents, Sue is intended and deliberate with her words. “What is most important is your health,” she says. “You have to be grateful for what you can do every day, because your life can change in a minute. After all, when it comes to your children, you really want them to be happy. Important is important to remember it.”

Apparently a way in which Matt has honored his mother’s support is inviting him to play in Dunhill. “I’m very happy that he asked me,” Sue says. “I loved every minute. I just wanted to make it proud of me and really, I didn’t know if I could. Everyone was looking, and this is not a comfortable place to be. He was confident in me, and I’m so happy to be proud.”

Later this year, Russell will take his turn with his son, though it does not sound like he will receive many advice from his bride.

“I’m trying not to say,” If you want some tips, you have to practice, “Sue, laughing.