Matthew Fitzpatrick: Modest, with a game to shout about - Carter


Matthew FitzpatrickMatthew Fitzpatrick's British Masters victory fittingly caps a season of extraordinary progress that has been in keeping with his short but glittering amateur career.
Having won his European Tour playing rights at Qualifying School last autumn, Fitzpatrick began the year ranked outside the world's top 400 players.
Now, following his British Masters victory, the 21-year-old is knocking loudly on the door that leads to the biggest events. He is just nine places short of the top-50 ranking that would make him eligible for the majors and World Golf Championships tournaments.
This rapid rise speaks volumes for the Sheffield youngster, especially when you consider he only claimed the 11th qualifying card at tour school. This provided a limited number of European Tour starts.
So Fitzpatrick was under immediate pressure to make the most of the opportunities he had earned and the 2013 US amateur champion has wasted little time in establishing himself on the circuit.
Before completing his two-stroke victory over a strong field at Woburn over the weekend, Fitzpatrick had enjoyed five top-five finishes this year.
He was runner-up to Danny Willett at the European Masters in July and, in the build-up to his maiden win, he finished third at the Italian Open and Czech Masters.
His decision to drop out of Northwestern University and turn professional in June 2014 has been fully vindicated.
Matt Fitzpatrick of England stands with the Havemeyer trophy after winning the 2013 U.S. Amateur Championship at The Country Club.
Fitzpatrick beat Australia's Oliver Goss 4&3 to win the 2013 US Amateur Championship
Joining the paid ranks cost him a place at that year's Open, though he did play the Masters and US Open after winning the US Amateur Championship. At the time, many an eyebrow was raised when this relatively slight figure decided to try to mix it with the big boys.
While his composure and on-course maturity were never in doubt, there was an assumption Fitzpatrick would struggle to generate the requisite length off the tee to compete.
While he is not the biggest beast in the driving stakes, he is no slouch either and averages 287 yards in distance while hitting more than seven out of 10 fairways.
Fitzpatrick's greatest strength, though, appears to be his ability to hit greens in regulation, for which he is ranked seventh on the European Tour.
His 75.6% success rate is all the more impressive because he has played significantly more holes than any of the other leading players in this category.

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