Episode five of the PGA Tour’s Netflix docuseries ‘Full Swing‘ takes in the US Open at Brookline and follows Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick and former World No.1 Dustin Johnson. Stop reading now if you wish to avoid any spoilers!
It follows Fitzpatrick and frames him as an “accomplished British” golfer who is small in stature but gritty as a competitor and the hardest worker in the sport. He’s won a lot in Europe but never in America. A “gaping hole in his resume” it’s called.
He is compared to Dustin Johnson, an alpha-male of the professional golf world at 6ft,4in with two Majors, 24 PGA Tour wins and over 100 weeks as World No.1.
“I’ve been in Sheffield for a week now and have not been recognised once. I told you, nobody knows who I am in Sheffield”
“I’ve been in Sheffield for a week now and have not been recognised once. I told you, nobody knows who I am in Sheffield,” he says as he’s back home. Full Swing really paints the picture of Fitzpatrick as this shy, unassuming, polite young man who hasn’t quite reached stardom yet, but that is all about to change.
We get introduced to Matt Fitzpatrick the statistician and how he has kept notes on basically every single golf shot he has hit since his amateur days. We see a glimpse of his notebook and his beefy excel spreadsheet. “I can show you 7,000 shots if people want to see that.”
This is also the second time in Full Swing we get to see and hear from Fitzpatrick after he briefly features in Episode 3: Money or Legacy when taking down Ian Poulter at the WGC-Match Play.
As well as his stats-keeping, we also start to see how the Englishman has been working on increasing his distance via speed training and that later gets compared to Dustin Johnson as the pair play together at the US Open. Fitzpatrick more than holds his own against DJ’s big hitting.
‘THAT TOUR’
The Netflix crews are at Fitzpatrick’s rental home the night before the PGA Championship final round, where he plays in the final group on Sunday as he goes for his first Major victory. Fitzpatrick is house-sharing with Thomas Pieters and his close friend, and Barstool Sports journalist, Dan Rapaport is also at the house.
Pieters and Fitzpatrick bring up the ‘that tour’ comments made by Paul Azinger towards Tommy Fleetwood, which golf fans will remember from 2020. “You can win all you want on that European Tour,” Azinger once said, hinting at how much better the PGA Tour is compared to its European counterpart.
Pieters also brings up how Daniel Berger once said…
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