Matt Fitzpatrick made his first birdie Sunday at the FedEx Open de France on the 13th hole.
By then, the five-shot lead he carried into the final round had been reduced to two. Eugenio Chacarra was making birdies. Fitzpatrick had spent much of the afternoon scrambling instead of separating himself from the field.
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The easy response in that position is to start chasing the golf you expected to have.
Fitzpatrick kept taking pars.
He made 12 of them in a row to begin the final round at Le Golf National, held the tournament together with his short game and eventually closed with a 1-under 70 for a three-shot victory over Angel Hidalgo…
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