Matt Fitzpatrick

The 27-year-old Englishman followed a top-10 finish at last month's PGA Championship with his first major victory in Brookline, Mass., on Sunday.

Zalatoris remedied that somewhat with a brilliant birdie from nine feet on the par-3 No. 16 to add pressure, and they came to No. 18 with Scheffler just done at 5 under after his 67, with Zalatoris at 5 under and Fitzpatrick at 6 under. The first happened on No. 15, when Fitzpatrick and Zalatoris stood tied at 5 under and Fitzpatrick teed off wide right into one of those deals where a player needs to part the crowd just to take the shot. His birdie from there rolled right down the boulevard without much doubt, while Zalatoris played from rough on the other side of the fairway and made a bogey. He did it to relegate Zalatoris, that 25-year-old habitual contender in major tournaments, to a third runner-up finish and a sixth top-10 finish in merely nine tries at the big four. Fitzpatrick did it after a day of gripping competition in which he, Zalatoris and Scheffler separated themselves for a three-man tussle at the top, each grabbing the lead at some point. From that sand, on the left side of the 18th fairway, Fitzpatrick forged the shot likely to stoke reminiscence when this rowdy 122nd U.S. Open becomes a matter of the distant past.

Matt Fitzpatrick, the 27-year-old from Yorkshire, won by one from Will Zalatoris and Scottie Scheffler while Rory McIlroy and Collin Morikawa finished tied ...

I thought it was a course that you could play pretty well at and a course that could kind of hurt you in the back pretty quickly. With birdies at the 14th and 15th, McIlroy was minus two and back in with a small shout. McIlroy made par at the tricky 2nd but dropped a shot at the 3rd, a hole which caused him issues in three of the four rounds. From there, he hit a towering, terrific iron into the heart of the green. The actions of a champion. Enter Scheffler. A terrific approach to the 17th set up a birdie three, and cut Fitzpatrick’s lead to one. A Zalatoris birdie at the short 11th meant a two-shot lead at six under. A Zalatoris bogey was the natural outcome. To the 72nd hole; where the Englishman hit his drive into a bunker. He dropped a shot at the 12th and carved his drive into rough at the 13th, from where he could only chip sideways. The duo were now tied at minus five, with Scheffler missing the opportunity to join the party up ahead at the par five 14th green. Scheffler joined him with a birdie at the 5th.

Matt Fitzpatrick finished at 6 under to prevail at The Country Club, one shot ahead of world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris.

The game’s there. "The game’s there. "I hope many 7 overs aren’t coming in the future, but it just kind of made me refocus and kind of just get back into things," Morikawa said. It was another heartbreaking ending for Zalatoris, who lost in a playoff to Justin Thomas in the PGA Championship last month. After reaching 6 under, Scheffler bogeyed 10 after an errant drive and then three-putted the 11th (which was playing just 108 yards) for bogey. Fitzpatrick closed with a 2-under-par 68 to finish at 6 under.

Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick won the U.S. Open on Sunday, winning his first major on the same course where he took the U.S. Amateur title nine years earlier.

Fitzpatrick also became the 13th men's golfer overall to win both the U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Open in his career. At 27, Fitzpatrick is also the youngest player from England to win a major since Tony Jacklin at the 1970 U.S. Open. He said, 'Finally. Congratulations for winning in the States,'" Fitzpatrick said of Nicklaus. He is the second player from England over the past 50 years to win the U.S. Open, joining Justin Rose in 2013. He was even more clutch from a fairway bunker on the 18th that set up par for a 2-under 68. Zalatoris was a runner-up in the second straight major.