Reflecting on winning the PGA Tour\u2019s Zurich Classic together earlier this year<\/a>, Matt said that it couldn\u2019t get much better than playing in Ireland with his brother and giving Team Europe its third straight victory over the U.S.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m looking to achieve a lot in the game, and I think that would be as good as it gets,\u201d he said. \u201cWinning a PGA Tour event together, that\u2019s pretty high on the list but to be able to play Ryder Cup and to be able to have a chance at winning Ryder Cup together would be, would be pretty incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n The brothers were on European captain Luke Donald\u2019s scouting trip<\/a> to County Limerick, Ireland, earlier this month. Alex was one of four possible rookies among the group of 16 players, along with Kristoffer Reitan, Eugenio Chacarra and Angel Ayora.<\/p>\n He told reporters at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship<\/a>, where he and Matt are competing against each other this week, that he is \u201chungry\u201d to be on the 2027 Ryder Cup team. Seeing Adare up close and personal and being around other players who had won, only increased that drive.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not often you get to be with some of the best players,\u201d he said. \u201cI had heard so many great things about Adare. I had seen photos of the golf course, but seeing it and being there was incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Watch the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship played over the Old Course at St Andrews, Carnoustie Golf Links and Kingsbarn Golf Links.<\/p>\n The younger Fitzpatrick, who won his first DP World Tour event a month prior to his triumph in New Orleans, added that he hopes that by continuing to approach the game the same way that he\u2019s been doing in 2026 \u201cleads to being at Adare.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the one thing I want to do more than anything next year,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n Abu Dhabi and Dubai<\/p>\n While most of the brothers\u2019 joint press conference focused on this week\u2019s DP World Tour event and their family ambition to claim the Cup at Adare, Matt was asked about raising safety concerns with traveling to the United Arab Emirates for the Abu Dhabi Championship<\/a> amid the ongoing Iran War.<\/p>\n Also in that trip would include the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.<\/p>\n The older Fitzpatrick told reporters he was planning to play in both events, despite the regional conflict and becoming a new dad this summer.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve spoken to a few people over the last couple weeks, and they were very reassuring in what\u2019s going on over there,\u201d Matt Fitzpatrick said Wednesday. \u201cObviously five weeks, see where we are at but what they said was very, very reassuring and I think very easy for things to kind of get sort of twisted in terms of not necessarily what I said, and my beliefs were.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a tournament that I love going to and obviously a tournament that I play very well at, and obviously I would be very disappointed to miss it, to be honest,\u201d he added. \u201cKind of taking it week-by-week and just sort of seeing the other side of it.\u201d<\/p>\n He has won four times this year \u2014 three times on the PGA Tour (including the Zurich with Alex) and last week\u2019s Open de France on the DP World Tour<\/a>, and was asked if that has shifted his perspective at all both on and off the course. <\/p>\n \u201cIt is nice to manage to achieve a lot of those wins and a lot of those great results. There\u2019s definitely times, you know, you just forget about it and it\u2019s easy to continue to the next one,\u201d Fitzpatrick said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve said before, sort of try to take it in a little bit more, some of these good results, and really try to enjoy them and make that a thing, I think is important. You never know when the next one is going to be. Hopefully it\u2019s going to be this week. You have to take them when you can.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/.jpeg\")
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