Will Matthew Fitzpatrick Ever Get Over The Line On The PGA?

The WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational finished on Sunday, with Matthew Fitzpatrick unable to take a halfway lead all the way through to the end of the week.

Matthew Fitzpatrick fell away, while four-time major winner Brooks Koepka was 11-under-par for his weekend’s play. The World No.1 came through the field to take his third PGA Tour win, which is still one less than the number of majors he has.

For one Englishman, it was another tale of so near, so far on the PGA TOUR, as Matthew Fitzpatrick fell away from the lead over the weekend.

After two rounds at Southwind, the man from Sheffield was in the lead by a shot from Spain’s Jon Rahm, sitting pretty at -9.

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However, as others around him started firing low rounds, including Rory McIlroy’s Saturday 62, the low round of the week, Fitzpatrick could only manage a pair of 69s over the weekend, eventually finishing the event at -11, five shots behind Koepka.

He ended his week in Memphis in a tie for 4th, and it continues a season of near-misses for the Englishman, who was part of the 2016 European Ryder Cup squad.

Fitzpatrick has now finished inside the top 20 of a tournament for the eighth time this season, with four of those also being top-five finishes.

The season-opening event on the European Tour was the Honma Hong Kong Open, presented by Amundi. He ended the week a single shot behind countryman Aaron Rai.

Matthew Fitzpatrick then finished runner-up at both the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard and the BMW International Open, the latter of which he missed out on winning in a playoff to Italy’s Andrea Pavan.

Add to that another top finish at this week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, and Fitzpatrick keeps coming close but not making it into the winner’s circle.

The Englishman is yet to win on the PGA TOUR, but he keeps coming close. He already has five European Tour victories but is coming up to a year since his last win.

Along the same lines as Rickie Fowler, some big names in golf have said that Fitzpatrick does not have the mentality to take the big titles.

He achieved his best finish at a major at the Masters in 2016, finishing in a tie for 7th, but has failed to finish in the top ten at any of the other three majors.

The Englishman has three top-ten finishes at World Golf Championships, including this week’s result at Southwind. His other top-tens have both come at the HSBC Champions in China.

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However, he is yet to get over the line on the PGA TOUR, or in any of the four majors. Can Matthew Fitzpatrick find his way to the winner’s circle, or will it be a case of so near, so far for the Englishman?

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