DUBLIN, Ohio – Matthew Fitzpatrick’s last holes have proven to be very profitable.
After a 50-minute delay, Fitzpatrick killed three of his last six holes to turn Sunday’s round – a 4-under 68 that took him to third place at Memorial. That earned him $ 641,700, but the recent hike was also good news for his filling cart, Jim “Bones” Mackay.
With Fitzpatrick’s regular caddy Billy Foster not returning to the United States until the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in two weeks, Mackay offers to speak for two weeks at Muirfield Village. Fitzpatrick draws for 27th last week and then released its second top 10 of the year.
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Along the way he impressed Mackay, who spent 25 years in Phil Mickelson’s bag.
“It has a lot of hits, and for me the most underrated skill that a professional golfer can have – which he has in spades – is the ability to read greens,” said Mackay. “He is an extraordinary ecological reader, and I think this will take him very far in this game.
“It’s longer than I thought it would be. Is good. He is really well. And the thing I told him today is that his game is really perfect for the majors. It may not be so beautiful in Palm Springs, but my goodness: you arrive at the US Open, you arrive on these difficult fields with a little difficulty, and it can do a lot of damage. “
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