01링크스 코스에서 펼쳐지는 '가족의 날', 피츠패트릭 형제의 샷 대결
DP 월드투어의 가을 축제로 불리는 알프레드 던힐 링크스 챔피언십(Alfred Dunhill Links Championship)의 조 편성이 발표되며 골프 팬들의 이목을 집중시키고 있다. 이번 대회의 주요 관전 포인트는 단연 '피츠패트릭 형제'의 동반 라운드로, 영국의 골프 스타 맷 피츠패트릭(Matt Fitzpatrick)과 그의 동생 알렉스 피츠패트릭(Alex Fitzpatrick)이 나란히 티오프에 나선다.
이 대회는 프로 선수와 아마추어 파트너가 팀을 이루어 세인트앤드루스 올드 코스, 카누스티, 킹스반스 등 스코틀랜드의 유서 깊은 링크스 코스 세 곳을 순회하는 독특한 방식으로 치러진다. 이러한 대회 특성상 피츠패트릭 형제의 조 편성은 단순한 경쟁을 넘어 가족이 함께 필드를 누비는 특별한 분위기를 자아낼 것으로 기대를 모은다.
메이저 챔피언 출신인 형 맷 피츠패트릭과 최근 투어에서 가파른 성장세를 보이고 있는 동생 알렉스는 이번 라운드를 통해 서로의 샷을 가장 가까이서 지켜보게 된다. 두 선수는 링크스 코스 특유의 까다로운 바람과 지형을 극복해야 하는 과제를 안고 있으며, 형제간의 자존심 대결 또한 대회의 재미를 더할 전망이다.
02Original (English) — DP World Tour
In-form Matt Fitzpatrick will continue his fine year on the global stage alongside his father, Russell, when the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship gets under way on Thursday.
The Englishman arrives in Scotland on the back of his fourth worldwide title of 2026 at the FedEx Open de France and is bidding to become a two-time winner of this week's Pro-Am tournament.
In 2023, he completed a historic double with victory in the individual event and success in the team competition alongside his mother, Susan, who this year is playing beside his brother, Alex.
Matt tees it up at 09:55 off the tenth at Carnoustie in the first round in a group that also includes fellow Major champion Justin Rose, with Alex starting ten minutes earlier off the same hole in a group that features two-time Masters winner Bubba Watson and his wife Angie.
Robert MacIntyre, who won the individual title last year to end a 20-year wait for a fourth Scottish winner, is among a host of star names beginning at The Open rota venue, starting in the first group of the day at 09:00 off the tenth alongside three-time winner Tyrrell Hatton and his father, Jeff.
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Tommy Fleetwood is one of five members of the 2025 Ryder Cup-winning team in action and he unites again with businessman Ogden Phipps II, with whom he won the team event in 2019, as 2021 individual winner Danny Willett joins them in a fourball that starts at 10:17.
Pádraig Harrington, who has played in every edition of this tournament since its inception in 2001, is partnered by Kieran McManus as they begin off the first at Carnoustie at 9:00.
Oliver Wilson, who made this event his first DP World Tour victory in 2014, is paired with Olympic great Steve Redgrave - an ever-present amateur - and they begin their week at 09:11 off the first at St Andrews' Old Course.
Thirty minutes later, retired football superstar Gareth Bale is teamed up with Marcus Armitage, while all-time Premier League appearance-maker James Milner makes his Alfred Dunhill Links Championship debut alongside another DP World Tour winner in Sean Crocker in the next group out.
Veteran professional Robert Rock, who has transitioned to a swing coach since he announced an end to his full-time DP World Tour career in late 2022, is among those who begin their week at Kingsbarns.
To view a full list of tee times across the three courses, which players play in rotation over the opening three days before the final day is played solely at St Andrews, click here.
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