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August 20, 2025

Matt Fitzpatrick

The Belfry Hotel & Resort

Quick Quotes

Q. What are your memories of this event growing up?

MATT FITZPATRICK: Growing up, I don't really remember it. I didn't really watch it growing up. First year on Tour I remember it, for obvious reasons.

Yeah, it's a special event. It's a historic event, and it's great that it's been back on the schedule for a long time now.

Q. Hard to believe it's ten years since your breakout. What are your memories of that week?

MATT FITZPATRICK: Obviously, very special to get my first win. I think that week in particular, I'd kind of been playing not great leading up to it, which is quite amusing. And then to go out and to win wire-to-wire was pretty awesome. I was obviously super nervous going into that Sunday round, but it was a great memory.

Q. Obviously close to making the playoffs over in the States, but not quite. But what are you most pleased about in the fact that you found a new form over the last couple months and how you analyze where your game is at?

MATT FITZPATRICK: Yeah, I struggled with my irons early doors, early in the year, and I feel like I really turned them around. Started working with Mark Blackburn, and just a few of the things he gave me were a huge turnaround.

Since then, I feel like I've grown in confidence, and with that comes a result. So I feel like I'm doing the right things and slowly progressing, which is really nice.

Q. This week marks the close of the Ryder Cup points race. You mentioned you know you can't make it automatically, but with Luke in the field and the events coming up, how prime do you think you are to give him a headache?

MATT FITZPATRICK: Hopefully very. Hopefully very. It's obviously an important week. There's a lot of scenarios at play. And I think that's the big thing is obviously playing this week and next week is important for me to obviously continue that to make sure that he knows I'm in and around the team.

So we'll give it a good go this week and see what happens.

Q. You mentioned you're playing a longer stretch of events than you would have planned at the beginning of the year. How do the next two weeks look for you, and how do you manage the additional stress it's going to put on everything?

MATT FITZPATRICK: Yeah, it's just about managing my energy these next couple weeks. And I feel like we've got a good plan in place.

And how my days are going to look at tournaments, probably a bit different than normal, not quite as intense. But we feel that's important right now looking forward to having a potential trip back over to the States to play for the Ryder Cup team.

So, yeah, it's something that we spoke about, and we'll just take it each day as it comes.

Q. This is your first time at The Belfry. You played 18 in the pre-round today. What's your impressions of the course and how you think it's going to play this week?

MATT FITZPATRICK: It's good. It's a little bit more fiddly than I thought, a lot of woods off tees and hitting to different spots. It's not quite how I imagined. I thought it was kind of a bigger golf course.

But, no, it's in great shape, and I like that aspect about it. So looking forward to playing.

Q. The 10th is a very iconic hole, but are there any stretch of holes that really catch your eye around there?

MATT FITZPATRICK: Yeah, I don't think 10 is a great hole, to be honest. In the Pro-Am I hit wedge, wedge, gap wedge. So that was kind of an interesting one. I never played a hole like that.

But obviously 18 is a brutal, brutal hole to finish if you don't get your driver where it makes it very difficult. So that closing stretch is a good one.