{"id":552262,"date":"2026-03-29T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:18:08","slug":"indian-open-alex-fitzpatrick-creates-history-with-maiden-victory-after-brother-matts-pga-tour-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552262\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Open: Alex Fitzpatrick creates history with maiden victory after brother Matt&#8217;s PGA Tour win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fitzpatrick overhauled defending champion Eugenio Chacarra of Spain, who was four shots clear going into Sunday&#8217;s final round in New Delhi, to win by two shots<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Back-to-back bogeys at the third and fourth did not help the Englishman&#8217;s cause but Chacarra&#8217;s tee-shot found the water at the eighth, leading to a bogey and a two-shot swing as Fitzpatrick made his birdie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players birdied the ninth to turn with Chacarra three shots ahead, half of what his lead had been on the sixth tee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fitzpatrick bogeyed the 10th but birdied the next three, while Chacarra responded at the 13th to stay in front before missing a birdie chance at the 14th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But things turned from the 15th as the Spaniard found a bunker off the tee to start a run of three consecutive bogeys and Fitzpatrick&#8217;s birdie gave him the lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fitzpatrick birdied the 17th to go four ahead and played the par-five 18th cautiously with a double-bogey seven still enough for victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fitzpatrick overhauled defending champion Eugenio Chacarra of Spain, who was four shots clear going into Sunday&#8217;s final round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-552262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}