Indian Open: Alex Fitzpatrick creates history with maiden victory after brother Matt’s PGA Tour win

Indian Open: Alex Fitzpatrick creates history with maiden victory after brother Matt’s PGA Tour win

Fitzpatrick overhauled defending champion Eugenio Chacarra of Spain, who was 4 photographs clear going into Sunday’s closing spherical in New Delhi, to win by two photographs

Back-to-back bogeys on the third and fourth didn’t assist the Englishman’s trigger however Chacarra’s tee-shot discovered the water on the eighth, resulting in a bogey and a two-shot swing as Fitzpatrick made his birdie.

Both gamers birdied the ninth to show with Chacarra three photographs forward, half of what his lead had been on the sixth tee.

Fitzpatrick bogeyed the tenth however birdied the following three, whereas Chacarra responded on the thirteenth to remain in entrance earlier than lacking a birdie probability on the 14th.

But issues turned from the fifteenth because the Spaniard discovered a bunker off the tee to begin a run of three consecutive bogeys and Fitzpatrick’s birdie gave him the lead.

Fitzpatrick birdied the seventeenth to go 4 forward and performed the par-five 18th cautiously with a double-bogey seven nonetheless sufficient for victory.

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