After struggling earlier in the season, Matt Fitzpatrick delivered his best round of the year with a stunning 63 at the Genesis Scottish Open. In this interview, he discusses how recent improvements to his iron play and growing confidence have helped him return to form, just in time for links season.
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Well, Matt, 63 for your second round here at the Genesis Scottish Open. Would your scorecard suggest it was a little bit more forgiving today with the wind? Yeah, definitely. Uh there wasn’t there wasn’t any wind, I would say, for the first 15 holes to be honest about our round. So, um that’s always a a real advantage, particularly at Lynx Golf. Um but you know, with that, you got to take advantage of that and um felt like I did. There are still some intricacies out there. The fairways are very hard and running out and maybe the green’s a little slower than what you’re used to. Yeah, of course. they’re not uh you know we’re used to playing sort of 12 13 on the stimp over over in the states and and a lot of the majors now and um obviously links golf is always a bit slower if you had that over here it would be carnage on some of the sloping greens but um no the the greens are a good speed it’s nice to be able to kind of give them a hit um and obviously with the wind as well you got to factor that in so it makes it makes it tricky your stock’s been trending in the right direction for some time now at the at the start of the season not what we were used to seeing from you with respect to the results, what’s been the big change for you? Yeah, just hitting my irons much better. Um, that was that’s the big thing that uh was really struggling and you know, if you’re not giving yourself birdie opportunities, it’s hard to climb up the leaderboard. So, um I feel like since I’ve since I’ve been hitting those better and combined with, you know, I feel like I’m I’m a half decent putter and I can give myself plenty of chances and make the puts you you’re going to you’re going to be able to shoot some good scores. I slap tomorrow, mate. Thank you. Thanks.
