Alex Fitzpatrick sealed his maiden DP World Tour victory after a stunning final nine holes to overhaul defending champion Eugenio Chacarra at the 2026 Hero Indian Open.
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The Englishman joined his elder brother, European Ryder Cup star Matt Fitzpatrick, as a winner on Tour – and the siblings made history as the first ever to win in successive weeks on the DP World Tour and the PGA TOUR.
The 27-year-old, who entered the fourth round four shots behind Chacarra, carded a three under par final round of 69 to win by two at DLF Golf & Country Club.
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Spaniard Chacarra held a commanding four-shot lead overnight and though he started with a bogey, he holed an excellent birdie putt at the fifth. Fitzpatrick’s superb approach at the sixth set up his first birdie of the day after bogeys at the third and fourth.
Chacarra’s tee-shot found the water at the eighth, leading to a bogey and a two-shot swing as Fitzpatrick made his birdie. Both players birdied the ninth to turn with Chacarra three shots ahead, half of what his lead had been on the sixth tee.
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Fitzpatrick bogeyed the tenth but birdied the next three. Chacarra found a much-needed response at the 13th after a magnificent approach from the left rough to keep himself in front.
Chacarra found the 14th green to set up a rare half-chance for birdie, but his difficult swinging putt stayed out. After finding a fairway bunker off the 15th tee, though, the Spaniard was unable to hold the green with his third shot as Fitzpatrick reached the par-five in two to turn up the pressure.
The Englishman’s birdie gave him the outright lead, having turned around six shots in three holes, as Chacarra two-putted for a bogey. Another followed at the next as Fitzpatrick learned from Chacarra’s underhit birdie putt and went within three inches of holing his own, while Chacarra’s par attempt lipped out.
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Fitzpatrick appeared relaxed, sharing a joke with his group as he left the 17th tee, and nervelessly birdied that hole as well to open up a decisive four-shot lead.
He took a low-risk approach down the par-five last but a double-bogey seven proved enough for a two-stroke victory.
MJ Daffue, the third member of the final group, birdied the 17th to finish in a tie for third with Frenchman Ugo Coussaud and England’s Andy Sullivan.
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Italy’s Francesco Molinari was three under alongside Ewen Ferguson and Calum Hill, while David Law made it three Scottish players in the top ten as he finished two under alongside Matteo Manassero whose 68 was the best round of the day.
Alex’s brother, Matt Fitzpatrick, is a ten-time winner on the DP World Tour, most recently at the 2025 DP World Tour Championship in November, and also won last week’s Valspar Championship on the PGA TOUR to climb to a career-high World Number Six.
Winner’s Quotes
Alex Fitzpatrick: It feels amazing, I feel a little more composed now than I was on the green. I’ve put in a lot of hard work and had a lot of doubts, I feel like I really stuck with it, especially over the past couple of years.
I’ve just got a really great team around me, a great bunch of people, so I’m really lucky to be in this situation and I’m over the moon. This course is so hard that you almost have to forget the past shots or previous holes. I think on Friday I had nine birdies and I didn’t know until I’d finished, and same today.
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I felt like I was playing really nicely, I started to hole some really good putts, I still don’t know how many birdies I had, I was just trying to stick in it. From the experience of Joburg, being in contention, if you kind of stick around for a while, hopefully one door will open and luckily for me it was today.
Hopefully I can continue to push on, I feel like my game’s in a really good spot and I’m super-excited for the rest of the year, there’s a lot of great events to come and a lot of events I’m excited for.
It’s great to join my brother Matt as a winner on the DP World Tour. It can be hard sometimes when you’re constantly chasing someone’s accolades but luckily it’s my brother, so it’s not horrific. 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 so hopefully we can keep doing well.
