Matthew Fitzpatrick backs major champ over furious PGA Tour rant: "He's so right"

Matthew Fitzpatrick has backed up former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover after the golfer accused the PGA Tour's policy board of thinking that the rest of the membership 'is stupid'. 

Glover tore into the huge PGA Tour changes that were confirmed on 18 November in an explosive interview with Golfweek. 

The 45-year-old hit out at what he described as 'cool kid meetings' between Jordan Spieth, Patrick Cantlay, Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Webb Simpson and Peter Malnati. 

Chief of Glover's complaints was the reduction of field sizes which, the Tour say, have been implemented to combat pace of play issues. 

Glover reckons this is rubbish, arguing: "I think it's terrible. And then hiding behind pace of play, I think challenges our intelligence. They think we're stupid."

He added: "Don't cut fields because it's a pace of play issue.

"Tell us to play faster, or just say you're trying to appease six guys and make them happy so they don't go somewhere else and play golf."

Glover was clearly referencing the fact that the PGA Tour continues to make efforts to prevent more marquee players defecting to the rival LIV Golf League. 

Cantlay is understood to have turned down multiple, sizeable offers to join LIV in the past. 

The American was accused by the golf columnist and Golf Channel contributor Eamon Lynch of using LIV's interest in securing his services as means to gain leverage over the Tour. 

For his part, he claimed the report was completely wide of the mark. 

Fitzpatrick is clearly in agreement with Glover, though, and he took to X to express his displeasure. 

The 2023 European Ryder Cup star wrote: "He’s so right, pathetic that pace of play is spoke about every year and nothing ever gets done."

This is not the first time this season that Fitzpatrick has hit out at a Tour decision.

During the BMW Championship, he wasn't allowed to replace his driver after it cracked during the final round. 

Hot mics caught his furious exchange with a rules official where he yelled: ""This is outrageous, an absolute joke. There is an obvious crack there."

A month after that happened, it appeared he was still very salty over what transpired by posting this:

PGA Tour referee defends field size changes

Gary Young, the tour's senior vice president of rules and competition, said reducing field sizes "absolutely" will improve the pace of play.

Young told Golfweek: "As we talked it through with the players on that subcommittee, there was agreement in the room that you would never build it so that groups would be turning and waiting at the turn.

"So that's where the whole idea of 144 being our maximum field size, everyone felt that that was the right number, and the mathematics on it worked. 

"You'll see that some of our other fields have been reduced even further, and that's due to time constraints.

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