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US PGA Championship: Matt Fitzpatrick appreciates Oak Hill's huge challenge

Posted : 18 May 2023
Matt Fitzpatrick, the winner of the US Open, is looking forward to playing Oak Hill's "brute of a golf course" when the US PGA Championship gets underway on Thursday.
 
Since it last held this competition in 2013, the East Course has undergone major alterations and is now a 7,394-yard, par-70 course with two par fives that are more than 600 yards long.
 
"There are so many tough holes, it's a proper test," He said.
 
"I like it when it's hard and you've got to battle and par is a good score."
 
The RBC Heritage on the PGA Tour was won by the world's seventh-ranked golfer last month, putting him in fantastic shape going into this competition.
 
"It reminds me a lot of Winged Foot when we played the 2020 US Open because when you missed the fairways there, it was just chipping out.”
 
"I've said it multiple times, I hate it when tournaments are 25, 30 under par to win.
 
"I don't particularly feel like I play well in those."
 
Fitzpatrick competed in the last group of the US PGA last year, ending in a tie for fifth place, and then won the US Open a month later.
 
"I think that final round [in the US PGA at Southern Hills] there was a lot of talk about me playing a little bit too fast, looking a bit rushed," said the 28-year-old.
 
 
"Statistically I didn't even putt that well that week, so if I can play the same way again and putt as well as I know I can, then that's also another level that I can add to my performance.
 
"That's a big thing for me. I know I can contend and win."
 
In the first two rounds of the tournament at Oak Hill Country Club in upstate New York, Fitzpatrick will compete against world number one and defending Masters champion Jon Rahm and Australian Cameron Smith, who won the Open Championship last year.

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