You’ll often hear a couple of buzzwords from Paul McGinley in his analysis of players. One of them is “momentum”. Another is what he terms “bouncebackability”, in highlighting a player’s resilience in recovering from a setback to perform brilliantly. In each case, Matt Fitzpatrick ticks the boxes, and the Englishman’s win in the Valspar Championship a week after losing out by one stroke to Cameron Young in The Players showed that the former US Open champion is headed into the Masters at Augusta National in tip-top form. Yet, for all of the 273 strokes which Fitzpatrick took en route to a third career win on the PGA Tour, it was...
