Matt Fitzpatrick

A month after finishing joint fifth in the PGA Championship, Matt Fitzpatrick held off Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris to join Justin Rose as England’s only winners of the US Open since Tony Jacklin’s 1970 triumph.

It came on the same Brookline course where he became US Amateur champion in 2013 – and he was the first English winner of that title since 1911.

Fitzpatrick went top of the amateur world rankings as a result, while his US Open victory took him into the game’s top ten for the first time.

The leading amateur at The 142nd Open in 2013, the former British boy champion won Walker and Ryder Cup honours in the space of three years and now has nine DP World Tour titles, including two season-ending Tour Championships. He also captured the 2023 RBC Heritage on the PGA Tour, defeating Jordan Spieth in a play-off.

At the Ryder Cup 2023, Fitzpatrick was in spectacular form as he and Rory McIlroy beat Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele 5&3 in the opening fourballs – his first win in three appearances at the event.