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Matt Fitzpatrick was shooting freely and hitting bullseyes on Friday. The issue there is he reserved his most incisive work for his words off the course at the Players Championship rather than his play on it.
The US Open champion’s second-round 71 at the Players Championship was unable to fix the damage caused by an opening 76, with his three-over tally highly unlikely to be sufficient to keep him around for the weekend.
Afterwards he made a compelling re-entry to one of the many political squabbles engulfing his sport. Specifically, the Englishman took aim at the relationship imbalance between the PGA and European circuits, with his view that the latter is on a downward spiral to lesser significance because of its ‘strategic alliance’ with the former.
While the alliance agreed in 2021 was depicted as a financial saviour for the DP World Tour during Covid, it has since come under scrutiny,
