A stunning shot on the final hole and a birdie miss from Will Zalatoris give Fitzpatrick his first major title.
There, in a fairway bunker everyone tells everyone to avoid, stood Matt Fitzpatrick, a 27-year-old golf savant and stat freak and fastidious note-taker and Englishman from steely Sheffield. He stood at 6 under par, one shot ahead of playing partner Will Zalatoris and. He stood 161 yards from the front of the green, and he stood with nothing but a measly 9-iron.
That word works as well for the shot destined to outlast all the other shots on a Sunday when three guys separated themselves and jockeyed, each grabbing the lead as Scheffler shot a 67, then Fitzpatrick shot a 68, then Zalatoris shot a 69 just a minute after that.
All the while, Zalatoris had made a troubled trek to the same green, lapsing into both a second cut of rough on the right and a green-side bunker. He wound up with a bogey, and when Scheffler, still just 25 and the world’s No. 1 player, birdied No. 17, he joined the thick of it again and wedged between the other two players at 5 under before a masterful birdie by Zalatoris on the par-3 No. 16 got him tied with Scheffler.
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