Matt and also Alex Fitzpatrick’s emotional victory at last week’s Zurich Classic was actually certainly not the very first time the siblings collaborated for a big gain. Back in 2013, a 13-year-old Alex caddied for Matt in the course of his U.S. Amateur success at the Country Club.
If you believed that will be actually a dream-come-true for the pre-High University Alex, you believed inappropriate.
It appears that the Fitzpatrick moms and dads must approach their youthful child along with a bright brand new tool to encourage him to lug Matt’s bag that full week, as Alex detailed on Tuesday at the 2026 Cadillac Championship.
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For the majority of their lifestyles, Alex Fitzpatrick must reside in the darkness of his foreman. Matt Fitzpatrick presented indicators of achievement early.
He supported all of them up along with a career-changing victory at the 2022 U.S. Open, at the specific very same program, the Club in Brookline, where he succeeded the U.S. Amateur along with Alex on the bag 9 years just before.
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Matt is actually presently on the most popular touch of his profession, having actually succeeded 3 PGA Scenic tour activities considering that overdue March to cheer Planet No. 3. However Alex gets on a tear of his very own.
After catching his very first DP Planet Scenic tour gain in March, he teed it up along with Matt at the PGA Scenic tour’s Zurich Standard of New Orleans recently, of what he was actually anticipating to merely be actually an excellent possibility for “spending quality time along with my bro.”
Alex obtained the household opportunity he was actually trying to find, yet he likewise left with a triumph, giving him a PGA Tour card for two years, over $1 thousand in cash prize and also places in the continuing to be Trademark Celebrations.
So while Matt is actually resting today observing his 3rd gain of the year, Alex remains in Fla to participate in the Cadillac Champion.
Alex Fitzpatrick uncovers moms and dads’ bribery program to acquire him to caddie for Matt
During his pre-tournament interview, Fitzpatrick was actually inquired about his initial collaboration along with his bro Matt at the 2013 U.S. Amateur.
For outsiders, it was actually a fairy tale full week that listened back to Francis Ouimet’s U.S. Open gain at Brookline one a century in the past, when 10-year-old Eddie Lowery notoriously held his bag.
For Alex, the ambiance was actually really various. In reality, he didn’t wish to caddie for Matt that full week in all. Their daddy, Russell Fitzpatrick, was actually after that pushed to take a severe procedure to create it occur: bribery. He vowed to acquire Alex a brand new phone if he caddied for Matt in the competition.
“I simply caddied for [Matt] at the U.S. Amateur since my daddy vowed me a brand new phone,” Alex uncovered in his Tuesday interview at Trump Doral. “That was actually simply reason that I caddied for him, since it was actually also pricey to acquire a caddie for the full week, so I obtained grabbed in to that.”
Alex included that he performed undoubtedly acquire his brand new phone after Matt succeeded, contacting it a “win-win.”
“And afterwards he succeeded and afterwards I obtained a brand new phone, so it was actually a win-win all over,” he poked fun.
Alex Fitzpatrick’s moms and dads must approach him along with a brand new phone to acquire him to caddie for Matt at the U.S. Amateur.
Matt Fitzpatrick take away the Havemeyer Prize. Alex obtained a brand new phone. pic.twitter.com/DG4dj698gP
— GOLF.com (@GOLF_com) April 29, 2026
It’s been actually a tornado couple of times considering that the Zurich conquest, today Alex is actually readied to graph his very own PGA Tour profession without his bro through his edge starting at the Cadillac Champion.
While Matt won’t exist face to face, he performed deliver Alex a touching keep in mind of inspiration for the Cadillac the hangover their Zurich success.
“He only claimed, you understand, he claimed appreciate it. He delivered me a definitely good text message the early morning later on that felt like, you understand, as long as this gain is actually each people, you ought to have to become listed here, you’re participating in some terrific golf, walk out certainly there and also reveal all of them what you possess and also only make an effort and also appreciate it as long as you may truly, that was actually the greatest notification coming from him,” Alex claimed on Tuesday.
Fitzpatrick embarks on for the preliminary of his brand new PGA Scenic tour profession on Thursday at 1:20 p.m. ET.