The first-time major winner almost seemed more taken by his caddie’s breakthrough.
BROOKLINE, Mass. — A cardinal rule in golf says you never root for an opponent to miss a putt. So on the 18th green at the U.S. Open on Sunday, Matt Fitzpatrick’s caddie was doing his damnedest not to root for Will Zalatoris to miss his attempt at a birdie that would have forced a playoff.
“I had a gorilla jump off my back,” he told The Post at the end of the championship ceremony on the 18th green. “Not a monkey, a gorilla.” As the 2013 U.S. Amateur champ at The Country Club, Fitzpatrick joined Jack Nicklaus as the only men to win the Amateur and the U.S. Open on the same course. And yet the first-time major winner almost seemed more taken by his caddie’s breakthrough.
“He left it in that bunker a few times and that really broke my heart,” Foster said. “Westy went close on numerous occasions, like when Phil [Mickelson] beat Lee at the Masters in 2010, and then Lee’s loss at Turnberry in 2009, when he was one shot out of the Tom Watson and Stewart Cink playoff. Billy Foster had never won a major before.
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