Five things to know: Alex Fitzpatrick

Alex Fitzpatrick claimed his first DP World Tour title at the Hero Indian Open. In doing so, the Englishman, highly touted for several years, joined brother Matt in the winners' ranks.

In his third full season on the DP World Tour, and on his 87th start, the 27-year-old made a big career breakthrough and played his part in creating a piece of history too.

His victory coupled on the back of Matt winning the Valspar Championship in Florida last week, saw the Fitzpatricks become the first brothers to win over consecutive weeks on the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR.

“It’s great to join my brother Matt as a winner,” Fitzpatrick said.

“It can be hard sometimes when you’re constantly chasing someone’s accolades but luckily it’s my brother, so it’s not horrific.

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"It’s extremely nice to join him in the winners’ ranks and hopefully I can continue to push on. I idolise him, so just trying to be like him in every way. Hopefully we can keep doing well.”

Alex is now sixth on the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World and second on the Asian Swing Rankings too, with the top three players on the latter earning exempt status at the US PGA Championship in May.

Here are five things you should know about the newest winner on Tour.

Amateur highs

Alex won titles at every level of amateur golf and represented both England and Great Britain and Ireland in international competitions.

As a freshman at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, he played the 2018-19 season alongside Cameron Young, who was a senior. He reached the quarter-finals of the 2018 U.S. Amateur and was part of an England team, featuring future PGA TOUR member Harry Hall, that lost out to a Swedish side that featured Ludvig Åberg and Vincent Normann in the final of the European Amateur Team Championship in 2019. That same year, he made the first of two Walker Cup appearances and was part of a winning International team at the Arnold Palmer Cup in 2020.

While still an amateur, he made the cut at the 2021 Cazoo Open supported by Gareth Bale, before playing at the PGA TOUR's Valspar Championship prior to his debut in the professional ranks at the 2022 Horizon Irish Open.

Big ambitions

Alex secured his full playing privileges on the DP World Tour for 2024 through a series of strong results the previous summer, a period in which he claimed his first professional victory at the British Challenge presented by Modest! Golf Management on the HotelPlanner Tour.

A month earlier, he made a splash on one of the biggest stages in golf as he outperformed brother Matt for the first time in a professional event by finishing in a tie for 17th on his debut in The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, having come through Final Qualifying at West Lancashire. Late on in a Full Swing episode, Alex is heard saying, "It's the first day I feel like I've become my own person."

Later that month, he finished second at the ISPS HANDA World Invitational presented by AVIV Clinics in Northern Ireland, while he was also in contention to emulate brother Matt as a winner of the Omega European Masters.

A year later, in 2024, he registered five top tens on the DP World Tour as he reached the season-ending DP World Tour Championship for the first time.

Speaking in the Green Room in Dubai, he said: "Like every golfer, I want to be World Number One, I'd love to play Ryder Cups, I'd love to win Majors so those are the goals - hopefully I can achieve them."

After a disappointing start to the 2025 season, patience was rewarded as he recorded three top tens over the closing months - including a tie for third place at the inaugural DP World India Championship - to go from fears over retaining his full playing rights to making his way to the DP World Tour Play-Offs in Abu Dhabi.

In his tenth start of the 2026 campaign, he conquered the fearsome DLF Golf & Country Club to claim a two-stroke victory as he made five birdies over the back nine to become a DP World Tour winner for the first time.

Brookline memories

Brookline will forever hold a special place in the heart of the Fitzpatrick family. After all, it was the scene of a childhood memory that will forever remain ingrained in both Alex and Matt and where the latter achieved the greatest moment of his career so far.

In 2013, Alex carried the bag for Matt as he won the U.S. Amateur at The Country Club in Boston, Massachusetts and nine years later was greenside to see his older brother win his first Major Championship at the U.S. Open. In the immediate aftermath, Alex revealed how his brother’s U.S. Open triumph came at a cost following a last-minute change of plans.

“I actually flew home yesterday (Saturday) afternoon and then flew straight back when I saw he was tied for the lead," he said.

"It’s been a hectic 24 hours but it was definitely worth the 150 dollars coming back. I couldn’t be prouder of him. It’s his dedication to getting better each day. If you look at 99 per cent of the field, none of them would go through what he does to get better, even one per cent a day.”

Just like in 2013, the Fitzpatrick family stayed with the same host family, Will and Jennifer Fulton, and their three children, Sam, Annabelle and George.

Full Swing

In 2024, the Fitzpatrick brothers were a source of focus as part of the second series of Netflix’s Full Swing.

In particular, the episode honed in on how younger sibling Alex sought to emerge from the shadow of Major Championship winner Matt and blaze his own path to golf glory.

The episode provided an inside look at the brothers' shared pursuit of success, albeit with the pair - separated by a four-year age gap - at different stages in their professional careers.

At one moment, Fitzpatrick joins his brother Alex, who was then finishing up his collegiate career at Wake Forest, for a range session.

“Everyone knows Matt is a statistical person, but we’re not the athlete that some of the guys are,” says Alex.

“He works harder than them most likely and finds ways to get better, just finding the 0.1 per cent of everything that will make him better and beat them.”

Like with most siblings, the duo are competitive but the cameras hone in on how supportive they are of each other, while also highlighting the challenges their parents Susan and Russell face in following their sons' fortunes around the world.

His love of Sheffield United

When you talk about the Fitzpatrick brothers, it is hard to ignore their love of English football club Sheffield United.

Both are long-time supporters of their hometown club and have been regular visitors over the years to Bramall Lane.

Former Blades boss Neil Warnock was present to see Alex win his maiden title as a professional at St. Mellion, something that made brother Matt jealous.