He revealed afterward that it was the only shot he hit all week with the club, and it wasn’t even in the bag on Friday or Saturday.
“But it was such a great number for 4-iron, and it’s the only round all week we’ve had 4-iron in the bag. Sorry, no, maybe the first round, but didn’t even hit a shot with it on the first round,” he said.
Going without a 4-iron was a strategy Fitzpatrick utilized a week ago at the Masters as well, one of several players to drop their longest iron in favor of a 7-wood. He actually carried a 3-wood, 5-wood and 7-wood at Augusta and did so again for the middle rounds at Harbour Town. He added the 4-iron back on Sunday for the expected high winds and it proved valuble.
Fitzpatrick, who has now won twice this season, struck the winning putt with his Bettinardi BB1 Flow prototype putter, the same blade he’s used for all four of his PGA Tour wins. But it’s not the putter he was using at the start of the year.
The 31-year-old’s return to world-class form over the last six months was initially sparked in the fall when he followed the professional golf trend and switched to a Bettinardi BB48 mid-mallet putter. He won with that wand at the DP World Tour Championship and used it for his first four starts of the PGA Tour season in 2026.
But Fitzpatrick lost strokes putting in all four of those events, so he switched back to the blade that won him the 2022 U.S. Open and immediately finished second at the Players Championship before winning the following week at the Valspar.
Another one for the blades
Since switching back to his Bettinardi BB1 Flow Prototype at the Players Championship, Matt Fitzpatrick has gained strokes in all four events he's played after losing strokes on the green in his first four starts of the year. pic.twitter.com/oF9L0z9eyP
Since going back to the BB1, he has gained strokes on the greens in all four events and now has two wins, a runner-up and a T18 at the Masters. The two victories are the only two this season on the PGA Tour with a blade putter and the first two since last year’s 3M Open.
Fitzpatrick’s putter features a unique C-Groove face and is essentially a replica of the Yes! Golf Tracy II, he used in college, that Bettinardi took 30 prototypes to meet the 2013 U.S. Amateur champ’s exacting eye. It’s crafted from Bettinardi’s unique Double Aged Stainless Steel (DASS), typically used in their Tour putters.
The most recent PGA Tour winner also has a 10-year-old set of Ping S55 irons with an old Ping CFS shaft that was a Ping-made stock offering several years ago. His irons are super flat to compensate for his out-to-in swing path and help him start the ball straighter with a pull-draw shot shape.
Keep reading below for more on Fitzpatrick’s complete WITB specs.
Matt Fitzpatrick’s winning clubs at the 2026 RBC Heritage
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