Amidst Leading the $20M Event, Matt Fitzpatrick Gets Brutally Honest About His Uphill Struggles: ‘Started Driving it Worse’

Golf is indeed an intense sport. With the uncertainty and pressure, things can get really frustrating for the golfers. It isn’t always like this, that is, after a subpar tournament, a golfer can have a great next tournament.

Recently, Matt Fitzpatrick underwent a similar frustration when he made his way from the FedEx St. Jude Championship to the BMW Championship. The golfer recently opened up about the pressure he had this week, and also made some eye-opening confessions about his earlier tournaments. 

Matt Fitzpatrick makes big revelations about his game 

In Memphis, Fitzpatrick did not get the ending that he wanted as he finished in last on the leaderboard, but still managed to make his way to Illinois at the iconic Olympia Fields. According to the golfer, he was quite frustrated when he entered this week’s tournament. But to everyone’s amazement, and his own as well, as of round 3, he made his way to the top of the leaderboard, tied with Scottie Scheffler.  

After his third round at the $20 million event, he sat with the media wherein he made a huge confession about his frustration with the game. He revealed that he felt that he got quite a lot done with his irons at the beginning of this year at Augusta and Harbour Town. After winning the RBC Heritage, he felt that his irons “just felt so much better than they had been probably since the U.S. Open.” 

The English golfer then said for his swing and clubs that eventually after Harbour Town, he “started driving it worse”. He shared that driving the irons has been his strength, and not being comfortable with it for almost 3 months was very frustrating. He worked on it and is in a good place with his irons now, and said, “I feel like we’ve done a really good job of fixing that over the last couple weeks.”

Talking about the change that the 28-year-old has brought about, he told the media that he just has stopped overswinging now, and he just swings it shorter now. As the repercussions of his overswinging, he said, “the batter just gets out of sync and it’s harder to control.” 

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Fitzpatrick also discussed the process he went through to make sure that he spilled no batter, and that the situation stayed in his control on the course.

Fitzpatrick opens up about his process of improvement 

When questioned about if the golfer made the emergency call to his coach, Mike Walker, he replied with a ‘No.’ He said that Mike has been out, and he has been trying a different approach with his team to work on his swing for quite some months now. 

The golfer mentioned that he tried on a bunch of different things to help his game, and he stuck to the one thing that made him see immediate results. But now, after sticking to the actual change, it makes him feel pretty good and different. 

Well, not overswinging the irons definitely worked in Fitzpatrick’s favor this weekend as he climbed to the top of the leaderboard at the BMW Championship. Tune in to find out if the English golfer wins the FedEx penultimate event. 

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