Alex Fitzpatrick and brother Matt enjoy simultaneous success on PGA Tour

NEWTOWN SQUARE: Alex Fitzpatrick was whisked around Aronimink by golf cart to make some national media hits — life is good when you’re trendy in the golf world — and could only laugh at one stop when asked about comments made by his older brother earlier in the day suggesting that Alex is the messy one in a shared house.
“Here we go again,” Alex Fitzpatrick said with a laugh.
Hold up, the younger Fitzpatrick said.
Time to clear the air — and clean the room — it’s actually big brother Matt who can be a bit unkempt, especially in the bathroom.
“I’m a normal brush my teeth at night guy,” Alex said after practice rounds Monday. “He’s got all these different things on the side of the counter and stuff.

I’m not as bad as what he makes it out to be. He’s exaggerating a lot.

He’s a bit of a neat freak.”
The brothers out of Sheffield, England can agree more these days that it might be better to share a trophy — as they did in April when they won the Zurich Classic team event — than share a house.
Only one can win at the PGA Championship this weekend at Aronimink Golf Club and each brother is a strong contender to win the first major in the Philadelphia region since the 2013 US Open at Merion.
Matt Fitzpatrick has three PGA Tours wins this season while Alex shared one win with his brother and entered Sunday with the lead at Quail Hollow before a double bogey on 17 derailed his shot at winning the Truist Open.
It’s rare for brothers to win in tandem on the PGA Tour. There haven’t historically been many team events, but brothers Danny and David Edwards did it at the Walt Disney World Team Championship in 1980.
“I think a lot of people feel like that once they get to this stage or even to the DP World Tour that they need to change a