There are golf shots forever engraved in the legend of the sport and that of Matt Fitzpatrick, to extract himself from a fairway bunker on his 72nd and last hole of the US Open on Sunday, is now one of them. Even where Jon Rahm had taken it twice the day before to reach the green of the 18th, the one who would succeed the Spaniard on the list of winners deposited a jewel of iron 9, 5 m from the flag, from the sand. Even the great Jack Nicklaus, who has seen it from the height of his 82 years, praised “one of the best iron shots under pressure that (he had) ever seen”. Beautiful loser, Will Zalatoris, in the last part with the Englishman, added: “When we show the highlights of the US Open, this one will be there. Because it was just awesome. »
