Alex Fitzpatrick sealed his maiden DP World Tour title after a stunning final nine holes saw him overhaul defending champion Eugenio Chacarra at the 2026 Hero Indian Open.
The Yorkshireman joined his elder brother, Matt, as a winner on tour as the siblings made history as the first to win in successive weeks on the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour.
Alex, 27, who entered the fourth round four shots behind Eugenio, carded a three under-par final round of 69 to win by two at DLF Golf & Country Club.
Spaniard Eugenio held a commanding four-shot lead overnight and though he started with a bogey, he holed an excellent birdie putt at the fifth. Alex’s superb approach at the sixth set up his first birdie of the day after bogeys at the third and fourth holes.
Eugenio’s tee shot found the water at the eighth, leading to a bogey and a two-shot swing as Alex made birdie. Both players birdied the ninth to turn with Eugenio three shots ahead, half of what his lead had been on the sixth tee.
Alex then bogeyed the 10th but birdied the next three holes. Eugenio found a much-needed response at the 13th after a magnificent approach from the left rough to keep himself in front.
Eugenio 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, the Spaniard was unable to hold the green with his third shot as Alex 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 Eugenio two-putted for a bogey. Another dropped shot followed at the next as Alex learned from Eugenio’s underhit birdie putt and went within 3ins of holing his own.
Alex appeared relaxed, sharing a joke with his group as he left the 17th tee, and nervelessly birdied that hole to open up a four-shot lead.
He took a low-risk approach down the par five last, and a double-bogey seven proved enough for a two-stroke victory.
“It feels amazing, I feel a little more composed now than I was on the green,” said Alex. “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 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.
“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. 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 is in a really good spot and I’m super-excited for the rest of the year. There are a lot of great events to come and a lot of events I’m excited for.
“It’s great to join my brother 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 I’m just trying to be like him in every way, hopefully we can keep doing well.”
MJ Daffue, the third member of the final group, birdied the 17th to finish in a tie for third place with Frenchman Ugo Coussaud and England’s Andy Sullivan.
Italy’s Francesco Molinari was three under-par alongside Ewen Ferguson and Calum Hill, while David Law made it three Scottish players in the top 10 as he finished two under-par alongside Matteo Manassero, whose 68 was the best round of the day.
