Matt Fitzpatrick now admits what he ‘frustrated and disappointed’ with in his own game at The Masters

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Matt Fitzpatrick entered The Masters on good form and with high hopes.

He came close to winning The Players, missing out to Cameron Young on the final two holes, then bounced back emphatically with a win at the Valspar Championship.

But despite arriving at Augusta National with a realistic chance to win the Green Jacket, Fitzpatrick finished T18 and wasn’t competitive throughout. His putting let him down over the four days, as he lost strokes to the field on the greens.

The Englishman looks to have put that behind him now, as a second-round 63 at the RBC Heritage gave Fitzpatrick a one-stroke lead over Viktor Hovland entering the weekend.

He explained after his second round how he fixed his play on the greens after The Masters.

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Matt Fitzpatrick ‘disappointed’ with his putting at The Masters

The contrast in Fitzpatrick’s putting from The Masters to the RBC Heritage is stark. At Augusta, he lost 0.26 strokes to the field. At Harbour Town, he’s been the third-best putter in the field, gaining 2.54 strokes.

He explained that he worked hard with putting guru Phil Kenyon, who has worked with Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, and Brooks Koepka, to name a few, and resolved the issue quickly.

Speaking after his Friday round, Fitzpatrick said, “I had a really good conversation with Phil Kenyon this week at the start of the week. I was frustrated and disappointed with my putting last week.

“It’s easy to say, but if you putt anything like last week and then get in the mix the way that I hit the ball, so come here not with high confidence with the putter and felt like we needed to really look into things and have a thought about what’s going to be different this week. Is it technically, is it reading.